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The BCCI has announced the India A squad for the upcoming 3 unofficial one-day matches against South Africa A. Young cricketer Tilak Varma has been appointed arsenic the captain, with Ruturaj Gaikwad serving arsenic vice-captain for the series.
However, names of cricketing stalwarts similar Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli is absent from the squad list.Former skipper Shreyas Iyer volition not enactment successful the bid owed to an wounded helium sustained during past month's lucifer successful Sydney against Australia A.
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Wicketkeeper-batsman
Ishan Kishan
has earned his spot successful the 14-member squad pursuing his awesome performances for Jharkhand successful the Ranji Trophy.The squad features T20 regulars including
Abhishek Sharma
, Arshdeep Singh, and Harshit Rana.Players similar Riyan Parag, Ayush Badoni, Nishant Sindhu, and Prabhsimran Singh person maintained their positions successful the squad aft being selected for the erstwhile bid against Australia A.The three-match bid is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine the Niranjan Shah Stadium successful Rajkot betwixt November 13 and 19.Rohit and Virat precocious made their instrumentality to competetive cricket, playing for India during 3 ODI matches successful Australia.
Both players showed awesome performances.Rohit, who earned the antheral of the bid title, had a dilatory commencement but recovered strongly. After an archetypal setback successful the archetypal match, helium scored 73 and 121 not retired successful consequent games.Virat struggled initially with ducks successful the archetypal 2 matches but bounced backmost with 74 not retired successful the last game.Their performances successful Australia proved crucial, arsenic antithetic results could person led to a antithetic outcome.
India A squad vs South Africa A
Tilak Varma (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vc), Abhishek Sharma, Riyan Parag, Ishan Kishan (wk), Ayush Badoni, Nishant Sindhu, Vipraj Nigam, Manav Suthar, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Prabhsimran Singh (wk).
