While Shardul, Sylvester D’Souza and Chinmay Sutar, who featured in the group stage, will be released for the knockouts, the selectors have called up Atharva Ankolekar and Mohit Avasthi, and both will link up with the squad in Bengaluru.
Lad, who was Mumbai’s designated vice-captain for the season, had to miss out on the larger part of the Vijay Hazare group stage as the team management had to accommodate the India internationals.
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Mumbai had a memorable run in the group stage, winning six of its seven games and finishing as the topper of Group C. While Sarfaraz Khan was among the leading run-getters from the side, youngsters Musheer Khan and Angkrish Raghuvanshi also stepped up when it mattered.
The team will travel to Bengaluru from Jaipur on Friday, and will train for the next couple of days, before the knockout stage gets underway at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence from next Monday.
However, there’s no clarity about Shardul’s comeback just yet. While the team management expects him to be fit by the time the Ranji Trophy resumes from January 22, the fast bowling all-rounder will be monitored on a regular basis.
“Everyone has told me to monitor it (the situation) daily and take it easy. So, right now, the management is easy this week and then we will decide on the future course of action in the coming weeks, depending on how things are,” Shardul told Sportstar. “It’s difficult to tell the exact date of return right now, since I will have to monitor it on daily basis…”
Published on Jan 08, 2026
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