Sudip Chatterjee will lead Bengal in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy, beginning November 4. The left-handed senior batsman has been rewarded for his good form in the Bengal T20 Challenge as well as in the warm-up T20s and one-dayers in Vijayawada.

Experienced campaigners like Anustup Majumdar, who led the side last season, and wicketkeeper-batsman Sreevats Goswami were dropped from the squad that features newcomers like Shakir Habib Gandhi (’keeper-batsman who plays for Tapan Memorial) and Ranjot Singh Khaira (East Bengal batsman).

Wriddhiman Saha, one of India’s wicketkeeeper-batsmen in Tests, has also been included. Bengal play their group-phase matches in Guwahati with their opener versus Chhattisgarh on November 4.

The squad

Sudip Chatterjee (captain), Wriddhiman Saha, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Abhishek Das, Kaif Ahmad, Ritwik Roy Chowdhury, Ranjot Singh Khaira, Shakir Habib Gandhi, Suvankar Bal, Karan Lal, Shahbaz Ahmed, Writtick Chatterjee, Pradipta Pramanick, Sujit Yadav, Ishan Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Alok Pratap Singh, Mohammed Kaif, Sayan Ghosh.