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Indian A team announced for Australia tour: Ishan Kishan returns, Rituraj will be captain

Published - 22-OCT-2024 7:16 IST | Updated - 22-OCT-2024 7:16 IST

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the Indian A team for the Australia tour. Ishan Kishan, who is out of Team India, has also been included in the 15-member team.

Rituraj Gaikwad has been given the captaincy of the team. A five-match Test series is to be played between the senior teams of India and Australia from November 22 and before that the A teams of both the teams will play two matches.

India A will play two first class matches against Australia A in McCoy and Melbourne, then play an intra-squad match against the senior team of India in Perth.

The first Test between the A teams of India and Australia will be played from October 31 to November 3, while the second Test will be from November 7 to 10. After this, an intra-squad match will be played in Perth from November 15 to 17.

Ishan was dropped from the central contract in 2024

In February 2024, Ishan was dropped from the BCCI's central contract for not giving preference to domestic cricket. At that time, BCCI secretary Jay Shah had warned the cricketers not playing in Team India that the cricketers who are out of the team should participate in domestic cricket to make a place in the national team.

Ishan has been out of Team India since December last year

Ishan Kishan withdrew his name after joining the team on the South Africa tour in December last year. He had taken a break from the national team due to personal reasons. Ishan did not play any competitive cricket for 2 months and now made a comeback from the DY Patil T20 tournament in February.

Ishan was also not selected in the Test series team against England. On the question of his exclusion, head coach Rahul Dravid had said that Ishan has not made himself available yet. If he wants to make a comeback, he will have to perform well in domestic cricket.

Ishan still did not play a single Ranji Trophy match for his home team Jharkhand. On the other hand, he started practicing with Pandya followers (Krunal and Hardik) in Baroda.

Ishan is leading the Jharkhand team in the Ranji Trophy

Ishan is captaining the Jharkhand team in the current Ranji Trophy. Ishan participated in the Duleep Trophy and was also part of the Rest of India team against Mumbai in the Irani Cup.

Indian A team for Australia tour

Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Abhimanyu Easwaran (vice-captain), Sai Sudarshan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Baba Indrajit, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Mukesh Kumar, Khalil Ahmed, Yash Dayal, Navdeep Saini, Manav Suthar, Tanush Kotian.

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