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Ishan Kishan has been selected in India A team.
India A Squad For Australia Tour: BCCI has announced the India A squad for the Australia tour on Monday. Ishan Kishan has returned to this team, he has been selected as a wicketkeeper batsman in the 15-member India A team. Whereas Rituraj Gaikwad will be seen captaining India A. Abhimanyu Easwaran has been made the vice-captain. Easwaran has scored four centuries in his last four first-class matches.
26-year-old Ishaan has been out of the international cricket team for a long time. He played his last international match in November last year. He was suddenly ruled out of the South Africa tour at the end of 2023, after which there has been no comeback in the senior Indian team. After that Ishaan also stayed away from domestic cricket due to which some BCCI officials were angry with him. The board had also dropped Ishaan from the central contract in February 2024.
Ishan Kishan is captaining the Jharkhand team in Ranji Trophy.
However, now Ishaan has attracted the attention of BCCI by playing some good innings in domestic cricket. He is currently captaining Jharkhand in Ranji Trophy. He recently scored a century against Railways. Before that, the wicketkeeper batsman had scored centuries in Duleep Trophy and Buchi Babu Memorial Tournament. In such a situation, if Ishan does well on this tour, he can return to the senior team of Team India.
It is believed that if Ishaan is successful in making a mark in Australia, he can also return to the senior Indian team. Apart from Gaikwad-Eshwaran, India A team also has an opening batsman like Sai Sudarshan. Any one of these three can be included as an opening batsman in the senior team. In fact, captain Rohit Sharma is expected to take a break during one of the first two Test matches due to personal reasons.
Two matches will be played between India A and Australia A. The first match will be held in Mackay from 31 October and the second in Melbourne from 7 November. Next, India A and the Indian team (senior men) will play intra-squad practice matches in Perth, starting on November 15. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) will start between India and Australia from 22nd November. India has to play its first match against Australia in Perth.
