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Strangely scheduled by BCCI, getting the limited overs A team to tour New Zealand along with the seniors. If one thing yesterday's humiliation proved is that the team needs fresh blood especially in the middle order. Having them tour earlier would have been a good opportunity to take a good look at A team performances and find possible replacements.

 

ODIs

Jan 22, Wednesday

New Zealand A vs India A, 1st unofficial ODI
Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln
10:00 PM GMT (Jan 21) / 10:00 AM LOCAL


Jan 24, Friday

New Zealand A vs India A, 2nd unofficial ODI
Hagley Oval, Christchurch
10:00 PMGMT (Jan 23) / 11:00 AM LOCAL


Jan 26, Sunday

New Zealand A vs India A, 3rd unofficial ODI
Hagley Oval, Christchurch
10:00 PMGMT (Jan 25) / 11:00 AM LOCAL

 

Team for ODIs

Prithvi Shaw

Mayank Agarwal

Ruturaj Gaikwad

Shubman Gill (Captain)

Suryakumar Yadav

Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper)

Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper)

Hardik Pandya

Krunal Pandya

Axar Patel

Rahul Chahar

Sandeep Warrier

Ishan Porel

Khaleel Ahmed

Mohammad Siraj.

 

The tests are more sensible scheduled and will give important match time to many players who have been away from International duties.

 

TESTS
Jan 30, Thu - Feb 02, Sunday

New Zealand A vs India A, 1st unofficial Test
Hagley Oval, Christchurch
10:00 PMGMT (Jan 29) / 11:00 AM LOCAL


Feb 07, Fri - Feb 10, Monday

New Zealand A vs India A, 2nd unofficial Test
Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln

10:00 PMGMT (Feb 06) / 10:00 AM LOCAL

 

India A squad for 1st four-day game: Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Priyank Panchal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari (Captain), KS Bharat (wicket-keeper), Shivam Dube, Shahbaz Nadeem, Rahul Chahar, Sandeep Warrier, Avesh Khan, Mohammad Siraj, Ishan Porel, Ishan Kishan.

 

India A squad for 2nd four-day game: Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), Hanuma Vihari (Captain), KS Bharat (wicket-keeper), Shivam Dube, R Ashwin, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sandeep Warrier, Avesh Khan, Mohammad Siraj, Ishan Porel.

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1 hour ago, shortbread said:

Strangely scheduled by BCCI, getting the limited overs A team to tour New Zealand along with the seniors. If one thing yesterday's humiliation proved is that the team needs fresh blood especially in the middle order. Having them tour earlier would have been a good opportunity to take a good look at A team performances and find possible replacements.

 

 

They didnt want that.

 

When there were openers ie Panchal,Eshwaran, performing for A team, they made Rohit the openers for the test.

 

Siraj had a great performance with the A team taking wickets against every opposition, but still he is bowling in the Ranji Trophy, and Shardul and Chahar are bowling for the national team.

 

 

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18 hours ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Our A team will do well, as they have in all A tours in recent years. I can't remeber a List A series A team hasn't won. 

 

The problem is the whole stinking culture the captain and coach have created in the National team. Youngsters get no backing while captain runs the team as per his whims picking his friends and backing his chamchas

Which defeats the purpose of having A team tours!

 

The middle order especially needs fresh blood, any opposition that can remove the Indian top order cheaply is guaranteed to win the game.

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R chahar bowled 1 over, picked a wicket and didn't bowl again?

 

SKY making a strong case for LOI middle order, if only he cld bowl

 

3 of the wicket taking balls by khaleel were good, pace also seems to be decent. Got most coming round the wicket, something he shld do more.

 

Krunal again showing he has moxy - if India wants a spin bowling all rounder in LOIs, i wld pick him over jadeja. 

 

Why is Gill captaining with more mature heads like Mayank, SKY, Krunal in team? I hope selectors arent making same mistake as they did with Kohli of grooming best batsman as captain.

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1 hour ago, Hakuna Matata said:

India A bowled out for 372 runs in 49.2 overs in the second warm-up match:

P Shaw - 150(100)
M Agarwal - 32(36)
S Gill - 24(22)
Suryakumar - 26(20)
Ishan Kishan - 14(18)
Vijay Shankar - 58(41)
Krunal Pandya - 32(33)
Axar Patel - 15(14)

#NZXIvINDA

Source : @CricCrazyjohns twitter

Saw the highlights..Some outrageous shots by Shaw..

Decent knock by Shankar too, but he got out to a nothing ball.

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