India, Sept. 4 -- India players Mohammed Siraj and Devdutt Padikkal are set to play the Duleep Trophy final for South Zone against East Zone at Chennai's Chidambaram Stadium. The five-day match starts on Sunday.

They are good to go but there is a little problem for Tilak Varma (South Zone captain) and Ishan Kishan (East Zone captain). Both are also part of the three-T20I series against Afghanistan starting September 13 in New Delhi. One can see there is not much time between the Duleep Trophy final and the first T20I. Normally, the Indian team congregates quite a few days before an international assignment. Basically, it's as simple as this: play the Duleep final and join the Indian team at the earliest at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New...