India A cricket team

India 'A'
Captain: Cheteshwar Pujara (First-class cricket)
Manish Pandey (List A cricket)
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. International cap players are marked as Bold.

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
Gautam Gambhir 35 Left-handed Leg break Delhi FC 9 Test 100s, 11 ODI 100s
List A Captain & Batsmen
Manish Pandey 27 Right-handed Right-arm medium Karnataka LA, T20 1 ODI 100s
T20 Captain & Batsmen
Mandeep Singh 24 Right-handed Right-arm medium Punjab LA, T20 1 T20I 50s
Opening batsmen
Faiz Fazal 31 Left-handed Right-arm medium Vidarbha LA 1 ODI 50s
Abhinav Mukund 26 Left-handed n/a Tamil Nadu FC 1 Test 50s
Robin Uthappa 32 Right-handed n/a Karnataka T20
Karun Nair 24 Right-handed Right-arm off break Karnataka FC, LA
Middle-order batsmen
Sudip Chatterjee 25 Left-handed leg break googly Bengal FC
Ambati Rayudu 31 Right-handed Right-arm off break Baroda FC 2 ODI 100s
Kedar Jadhav 31 Right-handed Right-arm off break Maharashtra LA 1 ODI 100s
Shreyas Iyer 21 Right-handed leg break googly Mumbai LA
Pacer All-rounders
Hardik Pandya 23 Right-handed Right-arm medium-Fast Baroda LA 15 T20I Wickets
Vijay Shankar 25 Right-handed Right-arm medium Tamil Nadu FC, LA
Spinner All-rounders
Axar Patel 22 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Gujarat LA 31 ODI Wickets
Jayant Yadav 26 Right-handed Right-arm off break Haryana FC, LA
Wicket-keeper Batsman
Sanju Samson 22 Right-handed Wicket-keeper Kerala LA, FC 1 T20Is
Pace bowlers
Barinder Sran 23 Left-handed Left-arm medium Punjab FC, LA 7 ODI Wkts, 6 T20I Wkts
Jaydev Unadkat 25 Right-handed Left-arm medium Saurashtra LA 8 ODI Wkts
Varun Aaron 27 Right-handed Right-arm fast Jharkhand FC, LA
Dhawal Kulkarni 27 Right-handed Right-arm medium Mumbai FC, LA 18 ODI Wkts
Sandeep Sharma 23 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Punjab FC
Shardul Thakur 25 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Mumbai LA
Ishwar Pandey 27 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Madhya Pradesh FC, LA
Nathu Singh 21 Right-handed Right-arm medium Rajasthan FC, LA
Spin bowlers
Pragyan Ojha 30 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 FC, LA, T20
Shahbaz Nadeem 27 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Jharkhand LA
Yuzvendra Chahal 26 Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly Haryana LA 6 ODI Wkts

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. ↑ Dravid to coach India A, U-19 teams - BCCI
  4. ↑ Mhambrey appointed India A bowling coach
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