India A cricket team

Second-tier national team

India 'A'

Personnel
Test captain| Abhimanyu Easwaran
One Day captain| Yash Dhull
T20I captain| Tilak Varma
Coach| Hrishikesh Kanitkar
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] They won the Duleep Trophy in 2024.

## Coaching staff

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Position  | Name

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Head coach  | Hrishikesh Kanitkar
Batting coach
Fielding coach  | Subhodeep Ghosh
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 last 12 months, as of 27 May 2025.[4][5][6]

Players with international caps are marked in bold.

Name  | Age  | Batting style  | Bowling style  | Domestic team  | Formats

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Batters
Ayush Badoni | 25 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Delhi | T20
Ricky Bhui | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Andhra | FC
Abhimanyu Easwaran | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Bengal | FC
Ruturaj Gaikwad | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Maharashtra | FC
Baba Indrajith | 31 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Tamil Nadu | FC
Yashasvi Jaiswal | 23 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Mumbai | FC
Sarfaraz Khan | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Mumbai | FC
Karun Nair | 33 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Vidarbha | FC
Devdutt Padikkal | 25 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Karnataka | FC
Ramandeep Singh | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Punjab | T20
Sai Sudharsan | 23 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Tamil Nadu | FC
Tilak Varma | 22 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Hyderabad | T20
Nehal Wadhera | 24 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | Punjab | T20
All-rounders
Harsh Dubey | 23 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Vidarbha | FC
Tanush Kotian | 26 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Mumbai | FC
Nitish Kumar Reddy | 22 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Andhra | FC
Abhishek Sharma | 24 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Punjab | T20
Nishant Sindhu | 21 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Haryana | T20
Manav Suthar | 23 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Rajasthan | FC
Shardul Thakur | 33 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Mumbai | FC
Wicket-keepers
KL Rahul | 33 | Right-handed | — | Karnataka | FC
Dhruv Jurel | 24 | Right-handed | — | Uttar Pradesh | FC
Ishan Kishan | 27 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Jharkhand | FC
Abishek Porel | 22 | Left-handed | — | Bengal | FC
Anuj Rawat | 25 | Left-handed | — | Delhi | T20
Prabhsimran Singh | 25 | Right-handed | — | Punjab | T20
Spin bowlers
Rahul Chahar | 26 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | Rajasthan | T20
Sai Kishore | 28 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Tamil Nadu | T20
Hrithik Shokeen | 24 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Delhi | T20
Pace bowlers
Vaibhav Arora | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Himachal Pradesh | T20
Yash Dayal | 27 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | Uttar Pradesh | FC
Akash Deep | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Bengal | FC
Tushar Deshpande | 30 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Mumbai | FC
Anshul Kamboj | 24 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Haryana | FC, T20
Aaqib Khan | 21 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Uttar Pradesh | T20
Prasidh Krishna | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Karnataka | FC
Mukesh Kumar | 31 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Bengal | FC
Harshit Rana | 23 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Delhi | FC
Navdeep Saini | 32 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Delhi | FC
Rasikh Salam | 25 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Jammu and Kashmir | T20

## 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 for ACC Men's T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2024". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
5. ^ "India A tour of Australia 2024/25 - Squads". ESPNcricinfo.
6. ^ "India A's squad for tour of England announced". BCCI. Retrieved 27 May 2025.

## External links

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