KOLKATA: Jharkhand wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan will lead East Zone in the Duleep Trophy to be held in Bengaluru from August 28.

The star-studded team includes pacers Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep and Mukesh Kumar apart from prominent batters such as Abhimanyu Easwaran and Riyan Parag. Teenage sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi is among the standbyes.

East will take on North in its first match from August 28 to 31.

The squad: Ishan Kishan (capt.., wk), Abhimanyu Easwaran (vice-capt.), Sandeep Patnaik, Virat Singh, Denish Das, Sridam Paul, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Riyan Parag, Utkarsh Singh, Manishi, Suraj Jaiswal, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep and Mohammed Shami.

Standbyes: Mukhtar Hussain, Aasirwad Swain, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Swastik Samal, Sudip Kumar Gharami and Rahul Singh.