BCCI announced India A team for the tour down under in Australia: The India A team is scheduled to tour Australia for a quadrangular One-Day series and four-day games in August. The BCCI has announced the squad for the same and wicketkeeper-batsman Naman Ojha will be lead the side with the batting legend, Rahul Dravid mentoring the young troops. The quadrangular one-day series will feature South Africa A, Australia A, and Australia”s National Performance Squad (NPS).
India will start the 49 days long tour with a One-Day game against Australia A on August 14 after the quadrangular series kicks off with South Africa A taking on NPS a day before. The two four-day matches between India A and Australia A that will follow after the One-Day series will start from September 8 and run until September 18. This will be played at the Allan Border field in Brisbane.
Nine players that were part of India’s squad in the recently concluded limited-overs series against Zimbabwe have been named in the 15-man India ‘A’ squad. Two youngsters, Vijay Shankar of Tamil Nadu and Akhil Herwadkar of Mumbai have been given surprise call-ups to the squad.
There will be two finals played after the round-robin to decide positions of the four teams. 1st Ranked Team will be the second. Third placed team will play the fourth in the table.
India A Squad: Naman Ojha (C), Faiz Fazal, Akhil Herwadkar, Shreyas Iyer, Karun Nair, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Vijay Shankar, Axar Patel, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jaydev Unadkat, Barinder Sran, Shahbaz Nadeem and Sanju Samson.
