India A cricket team
| Personnel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test captain | Rishabh Pant | |||
| One Day captain | Tilak Varma | |||
| T20I captain | Ayush Badoni | |||
| Coach | Hrishikesh Kanitkar | |||
| Team information | ||||
| Founded | 1992 | |||
| History | ||||
| First-class debut | England A in 14-17 January 1995 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium[1][2] | |||
| Official website | bcci | |||
| ||||
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.
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).[4][5][6] They won the Duleep Trophy in 2024.
Coaching staff
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Head coach | Hrishikesh Kanitkar |
| Batting coach | |
| Fielding coach | Subhodeep Ghosh |
| Fast bowling coach | Troy Cooley |
| Spin bowling coach | Sairaj Bahutule |
| Physiotherapist | Dr Gaurav Rajendra Sharma |
| Strength & conditioning coach | Anand Date |
| Performance analyst | Devraj Raut |
| Massuer | Mangesh 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.[7][8][9]
Players with international caps are marked in bold.
| Name | Age | Batting style | Bowling style | Domestic team | Formats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batters | |||||||||
| Shreyas Iyer | 31 | Right-hander | Right-arm leg break | Mumbai | FC | ||||
| Vaibhav Sooryavanshi | 14 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Bihar |
FC | ||||
| Ricky Bhui | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Andhra | FC | ||||
| Abhimanyu Easwaran | 30 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Bengal | FC | ||||
| Ruturaj Gaikwad | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Maharashtra | FC | ||||
| Baba Indrajith | 31 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Tamil Nadu | FC | ||||
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | 24 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Mumbai | FC | ||||
| Sarfaraz Khan | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Mumbai | FC | ||||
| Karun Nair | 34 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Vidarbha | FC | ||||
| Devdutt Padikkal | 25 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Karnataka | FC | ||||
| Ramandeep Singh | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Punjab | T20 | ||||
| Sai Sudharsan | 24 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Tamil Nadu | FC | ||||
| Tilak Varma | 23 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | Hyderabad | T20 | ||||
| Nehal Wadhera | 25 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | Punjab | T20 | ||||
| All-rounders | |||||||||
| Harsh Dubey | 23 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Vidarbha | FC | ||||
| Tanush Kotian | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | Mumbai | FC | ||||
| Nitish Kumar Reddy | 22 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Andhra | FC | ||||
| Abhishek Sharma | 25 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Punjab | T20 | ||||
| Nishant Sindhu | 21 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Haryana | T20 | ||||
| Manav Suthar | 23 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Rajasthan | FC | ||||
| Shardul Thakur | 34 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Mumbai | FC | ||||
| Wicket-keepers | |||||||||
| KL Rahul | 33 | Right-handed | N/a | Karnataka | FC | ||||
| Dhruv Jurel | 25 | Right-handed | N/a | Uttar Pradesh | FC | ||||
| Ishan Kishan | 27 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | Jharkhand | FC | ||||
| Abishek Porel | 23 | Left-handed | N/a | Bengal | FC | ||||
| Anuj Rawat | 26 | Left-handed | N/a | Delhi | T20 | ||||
| Narayan Jagadeesan | 30 | Right-hander | N/a | Tamil Nadu | FC | ||||
| Prabhsimran Singh | 25 | Right-handed | N/a | Punjab | T20 | ||||
| Rishabh Pant | 23 | Left Handed | Delhi | FC | |||||
| Spin bowlers | |||||||||
| Rahul Chahar | 26 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | Rajasthan | T20 | ||||
| Sai Kishore | 29 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Tamil Nadu | T20 | ||||
| Hrithik Shokeen | 25 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Delhi | T20 | ||||
| Pace bowlers | |||||||||
| Khaleel Ahmed | 28 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | Rajasthan | FC | ||||
| Yash Thakur | 27 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Vidarbha | FC | ||||
| Vaibhav Arora | 28 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Himachal Pradesh | T20 | ||||
| Yash Dayal | 28 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | Uttar Pradesh | FC | ||||
| Akash Deep | 29 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Bengal | FC | ||||
| Tushar Deshpande | 30 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Mumbai | FC | ||||
| Anshul Kamboj | 25 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Haryana | FC, T20 | ||||
| Aaqib Khan | 22 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Uttar Pradesh | T20 | ||||
| Prasidh Krishna | 30 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Karnataka | FC | ||||
| Mukesh Kumar | 32 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Bengal | FC | ||||
| Harshit Rana | 24 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Delhi | FC | ||||
| Navdeep Saini | 33 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Delhi | FC | ||||
| Rasikh Salam | 25 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Jammu and Kashmir | T20 | ||||
| Gurnoor Brar | 25 | Left-handed | Right-arm Fast | Punjab | FC | ||||
See also
References
- ^ "1st 'TEST': India-A v England-A at Bangalore, 14-17 Jan 1995". ESPNcricinfo. 14 January 1995. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ India A v England A, 1st first-class match - CricketArchive
- ^ a b "India A cricket team". Sports Keeda. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of Final India A vs India B 1998/99 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of India Red vs India Blue Final 2006/07 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "India Blue vs India Red Scorecard 2011/12; Cricket Scorecard".
- ^ "India A squad for ACC Men's T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2024". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ "India A tour of Australia 2024/25 - Squads". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "India A's squad for tour of England announced". BCCI. Retrieved 27 May 2025.