India A cricket team

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

Coaching staff

PositionName
Head coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar
Batting coach
Fielding coachSubhodeep Ghosh
Fast bowling coach Troy Cooley
Spin bowling coach Sairaj Bahutule
PhysiotherapistYogesh Parmar
Strength & conditioning coachAnand Date
Performance analystDevraj Raut
MassuerMangesh Gaikwad

Current squad

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.

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

See also

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. 1 2 "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.
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