2016–17 Duleep Trophy

The 2016–17 Duleep Trophy was the 55th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India. In June 2016, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that the tournament will feature day/night matches and pink ball will be used.^[1][2] The tournament was contested by three teams.^[3][4]

2016–17 Duleep Trophy

Dates	23 August – 1 September 2016
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Champions	India Blue (1st title)
Participants	3
Matches	4
Most runs	Cheteshwar Pujara (453)
Most wickets	Kuldeep Yadav (17)
← 2014–15 2017–18 →

In August 2016 the BCCI confirmed that three teams, India Red, India Blue and India Green would play in a round-robin league stage. Each of these matches will last for four days, with the final scheduled to last five days, starting on 10 September.^[4] India Blue won the trophy, beating India Red by 355 runs in the final.^[5]

Squads

India Red[4]	India Blue[4]	India Green[4]
Yuvraj Singh (c) Ankush Bains (wk) Abhinav Mukund KS Bharat Sudip Chatterjee Gurkeerat Singh Arun Karthik Akshay Wakhare Kuldeep Yadav Nathu Singh Anureet Singh Ishwar Pandey Nitish Rana M Ashwin Abhimanyu Mithun	Gautam Gambhir (c) Dinesh Karthik (wk) Mayank Agarwal Sheldon Jackson Baba Aparajith Siddhesh Lad Parvez Rasool Karaparambil Monish Krishna Das Suryakumar Yadav Mohit Sharma Pankaj Singh Shardul Thakur Cheteshwar Pujara Hanuma Vihari	Suresh Raina (c) Parthiv Patel (wk) Robin Uthappa Jalaj Saxena Ambati Rayudu Ian Dev Singh Rohan Prem Harbhajan Singh Shreyas Gopal Ashok Dinda Sandeep Sharma Ankit Rajpoot Rajat Paliwal Jasprit Bumrah M Vijay Pragyan Ojha Saurabh Tiwary

Fixtures

Round-robin

23–26 August Scorecard

India Red	v	India Green
161 (48.2 overs) Abhinav Mukund 77 (116) Sandeep Sharma 4/62 (15 overs)		151 (45.4 overs) Saurabh Tiwary 50 (80) Nathu Singh 6/53 (12.4 overs)
486 (116.5 overs) Abhinav Mukund 169 (221) Shreyas Gopal 5/123 (28.5 overs)		277 (56.2 overs) Suresh Raina 90 (101) Kuldeep Yadav 6/88 (18 overs)

India Red won by 219 runs Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground, Greater Noida Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh and Nand Kishore Player of the match: Abhinav Mukund (India Red)

• India Red won the toss and elected to bat.

---

29 August – 1 September Scorecard

India Blue	v	India Red
285/5 (78.2 overs) Mayank Agarwal 92 (167) Kuldeep Yadav 4/78 (23 overs)

Match drawn Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground, Greater Noida Umpires: Nitin Pandit and Virender Sharma

• India Red won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain stopped play in the 35th over on Day 1, with no further play possible.
• Only 30 overs of play was possible on Day 2 and just 16.2 overs on Day 3.
• No play was possible on Day 4.

---

4–7 September Scorecard

India Blue	v	India Green
707 (176.3 overs) Cheteshwar Pujara 166 (280) Shreyas Gopal 5/173 (37.3 overs)		237 (61 overs) Parthiv Patel 55 (80) Abhimanyu Mithun 3/16 (7 overs)
298 (66.2 overs) Sheldon Jackson 79* (77) Shreyas Gopal 4/53 (10.2 overs)		179/4 (34 overs) Murali Vijay 73 (96) Karn Sharma 2/68 (10 overs)

Match drawn Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground, Greater Noida Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Nitin Menon Player of the match: Mayank Agarwal (India Blue)

• India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

10–14 September Scorecard

India Blue	v	India Red
693/6d (168.2 overs) Cheteshwar Pujara 256* (363) Amit Mishra 2/171 (41 overs)		356 (98.1 ov) Stuart Binny 98 (159) Ravindra Jadeja 5/95 (34 overs)
179/5d (45 overs) Mayank Agarwal 52 (83) Kuldeep Yadav 3/62 (19 overs)		161 (44.1 overs) Gurkeerat Singh 39 (37) Ravindra Jadeja 5/76 (18.1 overs)

India Blue won by 355 runs Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground, Greater Noida Umpires: Anil Chaudhary and Chettithody Shamshuddin Player of the match: Cheteshwar Pujara (India Blue)

• India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.