Bihar name Santosh Trophy squad

Rakesh Prakash Singh has been named captain of the Bihar senior state team for the Santosh Trophy starting later this week. The whole 20 player squad was announced by the Bihar Football Association assistant secretary S. Imtiaz Hussain in Patna.

The 65th edition of the Santosh Trophy will be held from May 6 to 30 across Assam in the seven cities of Guwahati, Nagaon, Mangaldoi, Tinsukia, Shivsagar, Kokrajhar and Bongalgaon. In this years edition Bihar have been placed in Cluster 3 along with Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman&Nicobar in the preliminary stage to be played in Shivsagar.


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Players
Rakesh Prakash Singh (Captain), Hemant Kumar Gope, Mohammed Afzal, Sanjay Kumar, Rajesh Patel, Som Kumar, Atish Prasad, Maidul Mallik, Sanjay Biroli, Ajay Sharma, Sunil Lohar, Shivshankar Metho, Ashar Ali, Babbar Alam, Krishna Sakiya, Shayam Bahadur Yadav, Mohammed Shabhaz, Mohammed Faiyaz Alam, Arvind Kumar Singh, Mithilesh Kumar Singh