India A cricket team

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Personnel
Captain Abhimanyu Easwaran
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Founded1992
History
First-class debut England A
in 14-17 January 1995
at  M. Chinnaswamy Stadium [1] [2]
Official website bcci.tv
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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.

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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

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.

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

Issue

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

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