While the senior India team play their limited-overs fixtures in Ireland and England, the India A team will also be in the vicinity, playing 50-over and four-day games against county sides, England Lions and the Windies A side, who will also be on tour at the same time.
The India A 50-over side will be led by Shreyas Iyer. Iyer has created such a big impression in Indian domestic cricket in recent times and has taken that form into the ongoing IPL 2018, in which he recently replaced Gautam Gambhir as captain of Delhi Daredevils. The long-form side will be led by Karun Nair, India’s only Test triple centurion apart from Virender Sehwag, with both sides filled with some of the best performers of the Indian domestic circuit, Prithvi Shaw among them.
It has also been confirmed that Murali Vijay, Wriddhiman Saha and Mohammed Shami, the Indian Test team regulars, will play the third and final four-day match of the ‘A’ tour to prepare for the Test series against England starting in August.
Squad for 50-over matches: Shreyas Iyer (c), Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Shubhman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Sanju Samson (wk), Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), Vijay Shankar, Krishnappa Gowtham, Axar Patel, Krunal Pandya, Prasidh Krishna, Deepak Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed, Shardul Thakur.
Squad for four-day matches: Karun Nair (c), Ravikumar Samarth, Mayank Agarwal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Ankit Bawne, Vijay Shankar, Srikar Bharat (wk), Jayant Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohammad Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Rajneesh Gurbani.
