India A cricket team

India 'A'
Captain: Cheteshwar Pujara
Coach: Rahul Dravid
Founded: 1992
First-class debut: England A
in January 14, 1995
at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Official website: Official Website

The India A cricket team is a national cricket team representing India. It is the 'second-tier' of Indian international cricket, below the full India national cricket team. The team is currently captained by Cheteshwar Pujara in first-class and coached by former India cricketer Rahul Dravid.

The matches played by India A are not considered to be Test matches or One Day Internationals, instead receiving first-class and List A classification respectively. Under the name of 'India Emerging Players', the team also takes part in the Emerging Players Tournament. It has won the Emerging Players Tournament in 2009 and 2011.[1][2]

The team also plays in NKP Salve Challenger Trophy as India Red. The team 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).

Current squad

This is a list of players who were selected for India A.

Name Age Batting style Bowling style Domestic team Forms Note
First Class Captain & Batsmen
Cheteshwar Pujara 28 Right-handed Leg break Saurashtra FC 7 Test 100s
Opening batsmen
Unmukt Chand (LA Captain) 23 Right-handed Right-arm off break Delhi LA
Mayank Agarwal 25 Right-handed n/a Karnataka LA, T20
Opening Wicket keeper batsmen
KL Rahul 24 Right-handed n/a Karnataka FC, LA 2 Test 100s
Middle-order batsmen
Ambati Rayudu 30 Right-handed Right-arm off break Baroda FC 2 ODI 100s
Manish Pandey 26 Right-handed Right-arm off break Karnataka LA, T20 1 ODI 100s
Kedar Jadhav 31 Right-handed Right-arm off break Maharashtra LA 1 ODI 100s
Gurkeerat Singh 25 Right-handed Right-arm off break Punjab LA
Mandeep Singh(T20 Captain) 24 Right-handed Right-arm medium Punjab LA, T20
Karun Nair 24 Right-handed Right-arm off break Karnataka FC
Shreyas Iyer 21 Right-handed Right-arm off break Mumbai FC
Pacer All-rounders
Stuart Binny 31 Right-handed Right-arm medium Karnataka LA Tests : 6
Hardik Pandya 22 Right-handed Right-arm medium-Fast Baroda LA
Rishi Dhawan 26 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Himachal Pradesh LA
Vijay Shankar 25 Right-handed Right-arm medium Tamil Nadu FC, LA
Spinner All-rounders
Karn Sharma 28 Right-handed Leg break Railways LA
Shreyas Gopal 22 Right-handed Leg break Karnataka LA
Axar Patel 22 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Gujarat LA
Parvez Rasool 27 Right-handed Right-arm off break Jammu and Kashmir LA
Jayant Yadav 26 Right-handed Right-arm off break Haryana FC, LA
Baba Aparajith 21 Right-handed Right-arm off break Tamil Nadu FC, LA
Wicket-keepers
Naman Ojha 32 Right-handed n/a Madhya Pradesh FC Tests : 1
Sanju Samson 21 Right-handed n/a Kerala LA
Pace bowlers
Varun Aaron 26 Right-handed Right-arm fast Jharkhand FC, LA
Jasprit Bumrah 22 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Gujarat FC, LA
Sreenath Aravind 32 Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast Karnataka LA T20I : 1
Rush Kalaria 23 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Gujarat LA
Dhawal Kulkarni 27 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Mumbai FC, LA
Abhimanyu Mithun 26 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Karnataka LA
Sandeep Sharma 22 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Punjab FC
Rahul Shukla 25 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Jharkhand LA
Shardul Thakur 24 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Mumbai LA
Krishna Das 25 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Assam LA
Umesh Yadav 28 Right-handed Right-arm fast Vidarbha FC, LA
Ishwar Pandey 26 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Madhya Pradesh FC, LA
Nathu Singh 20 Right-handed Right-arm medium Rajasthan FC, LA
Spin bowlers
Amit Mishra 33 Right-handed Leg break Haryana FC Tests : 18
Pragyan Ojha 29 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Hyderabad FC, LA
Pawan Negi 23 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Delhi LA
Kuldeep Yadav 21 Left-handed Slow left-arm chinaman Uttar Pradesh LA, T20

Coaching Staff

Statistics

Batsmen with highest first-class cricket averages

(minimum 20 matches, fewer than five Tests):

Name Team Matches Runs Average
S Badrinath Vidarbha 127 9391 58.69
Hanuma Vihari Hyderabad 32 2440 58.09
KL Rahul Karnataka 34 3068 56.81
Manoj Tiwary Bengal 78 5709 53.85
Ankit Bawne Maharashtra 52 3471 53.40
Akshath Reddy Hyderabad 38 2750 52.88
Karun Nair Karnataka 23 1724 50.70
Manish Pandey Karnataka 70 4832 50.86
Manpreet Juneja Gujarat 25 1667 50.51

See also

References

  1. ↑ "India take Emerging Players title". ESPN Cricinfo.
  2. ↑ "Carters ton denies India victory". ESPN Cricinfo.
  3. ↑ Shastri named director of cricket for England ODIs
  4. ↑ Dravid to coach India A, U-19 teams - BCCI
  5. ↑ Mhambrey appointed India A bowling coach
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