By 
Umesh Yadav and Cheteshwar Pujara will play in the second game for India A in Bangladesh ahead of the national team’s two-match Test series next month. The tour party will be led by Abhimanyu Easwaran, the Bengal opener.
Pujara and Umesh will only feature in the second four-day game leading up to the first Test in Chottogram from December 14. KS Bharat, India’s backup wicketkeeper to Rishabh Pant in the main Test squad, will also join India A squad for the second four-day game from December 6-9 in Sylhet. The first four-day match will be played in Cox’s Bazaar from November 29 to December 2.
Meanwhile, there was a maiden India A call-up for Kerala’s Rohan Kunnummal, who has had a superb start in his first-class career. This year alone, the 24-year-old Kunnummal has hit four centuries in nine first-class innings.
Update: Team India (Senior Men) and India A squad for Bangladesh tour announced.
Mored details here – https://t.co/VnBdNf60mN #TeamIndia
— BCCI (@BCCI) November 23, 2022
Delhi youngster Yash Dhull and Mumbai’s Yashasvi Jaiswal have also been picked, along with Baroda’s seam-bowling allrounder Atit Sheth, who picked up 13 wickets in three Ranji Trophy matches this year. Sheth has been in the domestic circuit since 2015 but has recently come into the limelight over the last few years.
Like Kunnummal, 20-year-old Dhull, who was India’s Under-19 World Cup-winning captain in 2022, has had an impressive initiation in his first-class career, having hit hundreds on debut in both the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. He has already hit four first-class centuries in just six matches.
Jaiswal, another 20-year-old who plays for Mumbai has been equally brilliant, as he became the joint-fastest Indian to score 1000 first-class runs in September, getting to the mark in only 13 innings, along with Amol Muzumdar and Rusi Modi.
Earlier this year, he scored twin hundreds in the Ranji semi-final and backed that up with another century in the final against Madhya Pradesh. Overall, Jaiswal has an impressive average of 84.58 with five centuries and one half-century in seven first-class games.
The inclusion of openers Jaiswal and Dhull meant that there was no place for the Gujarat opener, Priyank Panchal, who previously led India A during their assignment at home against New Zealand A in August-September.
Hyderabad left-hander Tilak Varma, who scored a century in the first red-ball game against New Zealand A, retains his place in the middle order alongside Sarfaraz Khan, who is another prolific run-getter in domestic cricket.
Bengal fast bowler Mukesh Kumar, who was the joint leading wicket-taker in the three games, also keeps his place, alongside Uttar Pradesh left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar. Saurabh will lead the spin-bowling unit with off-spinner Jayant Yadav and leg spinner Rahul Chahar, while Umesh (only in the second match), Navdeep Saini, Sheth and Mukesh will be part of the pace-bowling department.
India A squad for 1st four-day game: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Rohan Kunnummal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yash Dhull, Sarfaraz Khan, Tilak Varma, Upendra Yadav (wk), Saurabh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Atit Sheth
India A squad for 2nd four-day game: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Rohan Kunnummal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yash Dhull, Sarfaraz Khan, Tilak Varma, Upendra Yadav (wk), Saurabh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Atit Sheth, Cheteshwar Pujara, Umesh Yadav, KS Bharat (wk)
Comments