The South Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents southern India in the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy.https://www.espncricinfo.com/team/south-zone-2095 It is a composite team of players from seven first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. 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.
Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style State Team Format Notes Batsmen Mayank Agarwal Right-handed Right-arm off break Karnataka First-class & List A Vice-captain Hanuma Vihari Right-handed Right-arm off break Andhra First-class Captain R Samarth Right-handed Right-arm leg break Karnataka First-class Tilak Varma Left-handed Right-arm off break Hyderabad First-class Sai Sudharsan Left-handed Right-arm leg break Tamil Nadu First-class & List A Sachin Baby Left-handed Right-arm off break Kerala First-class Pradosh Ranjan Paul Left-handed Tamil Nadu First-class Suyash Prabhudessai Right-handed Right-arm medium Goa First-class Devdutt Padikkal Left-handed Right-arm off break Karnataka List A Rohan Kunnummal Right-handed Right-arm medium Kerala List A Rohit Rayudu Left-handed Right-arm off break Hyderabad List A All-rounder Washington Sundar Left-handed Right-arm off break Tamil Nadu First-class & List A Wicket-keepers Ricky Bhui Right-handed Andhra First-class & List A N Jagadeesan Right-handed Tamil Nadu First-class & List A Arun Karthik Right-handed Pondicherry List A Spin bowlers Sai Kishore Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Tamil Nadu First-class & List A Darshan Misal Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Goa First-class Sijomon Joseph Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Kerala List A Mohit Redkar Right-handed Right-arm off break Goa List A Pace bowlers V Vyshak Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Karnataka First-class & List A Vidwath Kaverappa Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Karnataka First-class & List A KV Sasikanth Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Andhra First-class V Koushik Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Karnataka First-class & List A Arjun Tendulkar Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast Goa List A
Updated as on 03 Aug 2023
International players from South Zone
Tinu Yohannan Roger Binny S. Venkataraghavan Syed Abid Ali Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Syed Kirmani Brijesh Patel M. L. Jaisimha Abbas Ali Baig Mohammad Azharuddin Lakshmipathy Balaji Rahul Dravid Dinesh Karthik Anil Kumble V. V. S. Laxman Sreesanth Javagal Srinath Venkatesh Prasad Pragyan Ojha Bhagwat Chandrasekhar Erapalli Prasanna Kris Srikkanth Gundappa Viswanath Sunil Joshi Murali Vijay Vijay Bhardwaj Ravichandran Ashwin Robin Uthappa Karun Nair Manish Pandey Stuart Binny Vinay Kumar Abhinav Mukund Abhimanyu Mithun Sreenath Aravind Vijay Shankar (cricketer) KL Rahul Mayank Agarwal Hanuma Vihari Mohammad Siraj Sanju Samson Washington Sundar T. Natarajan Devdutt Padikkal Sai Kishore Sai Sudharshan
References
External links South Zone at CricketArchive