India A cricket team

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see India A women's cricket team.

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.

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

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

• 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

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
Batsmen
Yash Dhull	21	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin	Delhi	FC
Abhimanyu Easwaran	28	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	Goa	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	30	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

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

See also

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

References

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. "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

• Espncricinfo India A