India A cricket team

Second-tier national team

India 'A'

Personnel
Captain| Abhimanyu Easwaran
Team information
Founded| 1992
History
First-class debut| England A
in 14-17 January 1995
at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium[1][2]
Official website| bcci.tv

First-class kit

List A kit

T20 kit

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The India A cricket team is a national cricket team representing second-tier cricket of India national cricket team.[3] The matches played by India A receive first-class and List A classification.[3] It is a developmental team, domestic players who are about to get picked and are in contention for national team get selected in this team or some international players who are not in national team contention also sometimes play.

The team had played in NKP Salve Challenger Trophy as India Red, Its names were changed for the 2006 version of this tournament. India A became India Red. The team has won the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy four times (2001/02, 2003/04, 2004,05, 2009/10) and shared the trophy thrice (1998/99, 2006/07, 2011/12).[citation needed]

## Coaching staff

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* Head coach & Batting coach: Shitanshu Kotak
* Fielding coach: Munish Bali
* Fast Bowling Coach: Troy Cooley
* Spin Bowling Coach: Sairaj Bahutule
* Physiotherapist: Yogesh Parmar
* Strength & Conditioning Coach: Anand Date
* Performance Analyst: Devraj Raut
* Massuer: Mangesh Gaikwad

## Current squad

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This is a list of players who have received an India A call-up in the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons (excluding 2023 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup where India picked an Under-23 team).[4][5][6][7][8] Players with international caps are marked in bold.

Name  | Age  | Batting style  | Bowling style  | Domestic team  | Forms  | Note

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Batsmen
Yash Dhull | 21 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Delhi | FC |
Abhimanyu Easwaran (C) | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Bengal | FC, LA |
Ruturaj Gaikwad | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Maharashtra | FC, LA |
Yashasvi Jaiswal | 22 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Mumbai | FC |
Sarfaraz Khan | 26 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Mumbai | FC |
Rohan Kunnummal | 26 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Kerala | FC |
Devdutt Padikkal | 24 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Karnataka | FC |
Priyank Panchal | 34 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Gujarat | FC |
Rajat Patidar | 31 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Madhya Pradesh | FC, LA |
Pradosh Ranjan Paul | 23 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Tamil Nadu | FC |
Prithvi Shaw | 24 | Right-handed | Right arm off spin | Mumbai | LA |
Rinku Singh | 26 | Left-handed | Right arm off spin | Uttar Pradesh | FC |
Sai Sudharsan | 22 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Tamil Nadu | FC |
Rahul Tripathi | 33 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Maharashtra | LA |
Tilak Varma | 21 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Hyderabad | FC, LA |
All-rounders
Shahbaz Ahmed | 29 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Bengal | LA |
Raj Bawa | 21 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Chandigarh | LA |
Saransh Jain | 31 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Madhya Pradesh | FC |
Saurabh Kumar | 31 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Uttar Pradesh | FC |
Shams Mulani | 27 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Mumbai | FC |
Pulkit Narang | 30 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Services | FC |
Axar Patel | 30 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Gujarat | FC |
Atit Sheth | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Baroda | FC |
Washington Sundar | 24 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Tamil Nadu | FC |
Manav Suthar | 22 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Rajasthan | FC |
Shardul Thakur | 32 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Mumbai | FC, LA |
Jayant Yadav | 34 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Haryana | FC |
Wicket-keepers
K. S. Bharat | 31 | Right-handed | — | Andhra | FC, LA | FC Captain
Dhruv Jurel | 23 | Right-handed | — | Uttar Pradesh | FC |
Kumar Kushagra | 19 | Right-handed | — | Jharkhand | FC |
Sanju Samson | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Kerala | LA | LA Captain
Upendra Yadav | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Railways | FC |
Spin bowlers
Rahul Chahar | 25 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Rajasthan | FC, LA |
Kuldeep Yadav | 29 | Left-handed | Left-arm unorthodox spin | Uttar Pradesh | FC, LA |
Pace bowlers
Yash Dayal | 26 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | Uttar Pradesh | FC |
Akash Deep | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Bengal | FC |
Tushar Deshpande | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Mumbai | FC |
Vidwath Kaverappa | 25 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Karnataka | FC |
Prasidh Krishna | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Karnataka | FC |
Mukesh Kumar | 30 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Bengal | FC |
Umran Malik | 24 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | Jammu and Kashmir | FC, LA |
Arzan Nagwaswalla | 26 | Right-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | Gujarat | FC |
Harshit Rana | 22 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Delhi | FC |
Navdeep Saini | 31 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Delhi | FC, LA |
Kuldeep Sen | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | Tamil Nadu | LA |
Arshdeep Singh | 25 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | Punjab | FC |

## Issue

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BCCI do not regularly organise international tours of India A.[9]

## See also

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* Indian national cricket team
* India national under-19 cricket team

## References

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1. ^ "1st 'TEST': India-A v England-A at Bangalore, 14-17 Jan 1995". ESPNcricinfo. 14 January 1995. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
2. ^ India A v England A, 1st first-class match - CricketArchive
3. ^ a b "India A cricket team". Sports Keeda. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
4. ^ "India A Squad - New Zealand A in India, 2022 Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
5. ^ "India A Squad - New Zealand A in India, 2022 Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
6. ^ "India A First Unofficial Test Squad - India A in Bangladesh, 2022 Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
7. ^ "Bumrah, Rahul and Shreyas back in India's Test squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
8. ^ "Tilak Varma, Arshdeep Singh, Rinku Singh in India A squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
9. ^ "Time to blood Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal; Dravid, Rohit, selectors need to be bolder". 12 June 2023.

## External links

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* Espncricinfo India A

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