KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel have been included in the India A squad for the second first-class match against Australia A starting from November 7 in Melbourne. Earlier, Prasidh Krishna was included as a replacement for Yash Dayal. Yash Dayal has been given a place in Team India for the South Africa T-20 series.

It is believed that KL Rahul will open the innings with Abhimanyu Easwaran. This change has been made amid the possibility of Rohit Sharma’s absence for the Perth Test in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, starting from November 22. Therefore, captain Ruturaj Gaikwad will move himself down the batting order to make room for KL Rahul.

There are already names like Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Porel in the team, but after the arrival of Jurel, he looks ahead of these two and can handle the responsibility behind the wicket.

India A team for the second first class match:

Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Abhimanyu Easwaran (vice-captain), Sai Sudarshan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Baba Inderjeet, Ishan Kishan (wk), Abhishek Porel (wk), Mukesh Kumar, Khalil Ahmed, Navdeep Saini, Manav Suthar, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper).

Australia A had won by 7 wickets

Talking about the first first class match, Australia A won by 7 wickets. India A, batting first, scored only 107 runs. In response, Australia A team managed to score 195 runs. In the second innings, India A scored 312 runs thanks to the brilliant innings of Sai Sudarshan (103) and Devdutt Padikkal (88). After this, Australia A won the target by scoring 226 runs at the loss of 3 wickets.