The South Zone cricket team is a first-class

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team that represents southern

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in the

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and Deodhar Trophy. It is a composite team of players from seven first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the

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and

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. South Zone has the third strongest track record of all the zones in the Duleep Trophy, as they have won the Trophy 12 times and also shared the winner's trophy twice, with the best team, West Zone having won 18 times plus shared the trophy two times more.

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold. ''Updated as on 03 Aug 2023''

International players from South Zone

* Kris Srikanth *

Roger Binny Roger Michael Humphrey Binny (born 19 July 1955) is a former Indian cricketer who is the 36th and incumbent president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He was the president of Karnataka State Cricket Association from 2019 t ...

* S. Venkataraghavan * Syed Abid Ali * Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi * Syed Kirmani *

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* M. L. Jaisimha * Abbas Ali Baig *

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* V. V. S. Laxman *

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* Venkatesh Prasad * Pragyan Ojha *

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* Erapalli Prasanna *

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* Gundappa Viswanath * Sunil Joshi *

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* Vijay Bhardwaj *

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* Robin Uthappa *

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* Vinay Kumar *

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* Sreenath Aravind *

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Mayank Agarwal Mayank Anurag Agarwal (; born 16 February 1991)
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* Mohammad Siraj *

Sanju Samson Sanju Viswanath Samson (; born 11 November 1994) is an Indian international cricketer, who is a member of the white-ball formats of Indian national team. A right-handed wicket-keeper-batter, he captains Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premi ...

Washington Sundar Washington Sundar (; born 5 October 1999) is an Indian international cricketer. An all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm off-spin, he plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League. He mad ...

* T. Natarajan * Sai Sudharshan Tinu Yohannan

References

External links

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