The India A cricket team is a national cricket team representing India. It is the second-tier cricket of India national cricket team.[3] The team is currently captained by K. S. Bharat in first-class cricket[4] and coached by Shitanshu Kotak.[5][6]
Team information | |||
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Founded | 1992 | ||
History | |||
First-class debut | England A in 14 January 1995 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium[1][2] | ||
Official website | Official Website | ||
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The matches played by India A are not considered to be Test matches or One Day Internationals, instead receive first-class and List A classification respectively.[3] It is a developmental team, often domestic players first get selected in this team before playing for senior team.
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]
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).[7][8][9][4][10] 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 | 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 | 25 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Kerala | FC | |
Devdutt Padikkal | 23 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Karnataka | FC | |
Priyank Panchal | 34 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Gujarat | FC | |
Rajat Patidar | 30 | 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 | |
Saurabh Kumar | 30 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Uttar Pradesh | FC | |
Shams Mulani | 27 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Mumbai | FC | |
Pulkit Narang | 29 | 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 | 21 | 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 | 24 | 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 | 28 | 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 |
BCCI do not regularly organise international tours of India A.[11]