The India A cricket team is a national cricket team representing second-tier cricket of India national cricket team. The matches played by India A receive first-class and List A classification. It is a developmental team composed of domestic players who are about to get picked and are in contention for national team get selected in this team or some international players who are not in national team contention also sometimes play.
The team had played in NKP Salve Challenger Trophy as India Red, Its names were changed for the 2006 version of this tournament. India A became India Red. The team has won the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy four times (2001/02, 2003/04, 2004,05, 2009/10) and shared the trophy thrice (1998/99, 2006/07, 2011/12). They won the Duleep Trophy in 2024.
Coaching staff PositionNameHead coachHrishikesh KanitkarBatting coachFielding coachSubhodeep GhoshFast bowling coachTroy CooleySpin bowling coachSairaj BahutulePhysiotherapistDr Gaurav Rajendra SharmaStrength & conditioning coachAnand DatePerformance analystDevraj RautMassuerMangesh Gaikwad
Current squad This is a list of players who have received an India A call-up in the last 12 months, as of 14 May 2026.
Players with international caps are marked in bold.
Name Age Batting style Bowling style Domestic team Formats Batters Shreyas Iyer Right-hander Right-arm leg break Mumbai FC Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Bihar LA Ricky Bhui Right-handed Right-arm leg spin Andhra FC Abhimanyu Easwaran Right-handed Right-arm leg spin Bengal FC Ruturaj Gaikwad Right-handed Right-arm off spin Maharashtra FC & LA Baba Indrajith Right-handed Right-arm leg spin Tamil Nadu FC Yashasvi Jaiswal Left-handed Right-arm leg spin Mumbai FC Sarfaraz Khan Right-handed Right-arm leg spin Mumbai FC Karun Nair Right-handed Right-arm off spin Vidarbha FC Devdutt Padikkal Left-handed Right-arm off spin Karnataka FC Ramandeep Singh Right-handed Right-arm medium Punjab T20 Sai Sudharsan Left-handed Right-arm leg spin Tamil Nadu FC Tilak Varma Left-handed Right-arm off spin Hyderabad LA & T20 Nehal Wadhera Left-handed Right-arm leg break Punjab T20 Priyansh Arya Left-handed Right-arm off spin Delhi LA All-rounders Harsh Dubey Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Vidarbha FC Tanush Kotian Right-handed Right-arm off spin Mumbai FC Nitish Kumar Reddy Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Andhra FC Abhishek Sharma Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Punjab T20 Nishant Sindhu Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Haryana LA & T20 Manav Suthar Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Rajasthan FC Shardul Thakur Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Mumbai FC Anukul Roy Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Jharkhand LA Suryansh Shedge Right-handed Right-arm medium Mumbai LA Vipraj Nigam Right-handed Right-arm leg break Uttar Pradesh LA Arshad Khan Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium Madhya Pradesh LA Ayush Badoni Right-handed Right-arm off break Delhi LA Saransh Jain Left-handed Right-arm off break Madhya Pradesh FC Wicket-keepers KL Rahul Right-handed Karnataka FC Dhruv Jurel Right-handed Uttar Pradesh FC Ishan Kishan Left-handed Right-arm leg spin Jharkhand FC Abishek Porel Left-handed Bengal FC Anuj Rawat Left-handed Delhi T20 Narayan Jagadeesan Right-hander Tamil Nadu FC Prabhsimran Singh Right-handed Punjab LA & T20 Rishabh Pant Left-handed Delhi FC Kumar Kushagra Right-handed Jharkhand LA Spin bowlers Rahul Chahar Right-handed Right-arm leg break Rajasthan T20 Sai Kishore Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Tamil Nadu T20 Hrithik Shokeen Right-handed Right-arm off break Delhi T20 Pace bowlers Khaleel Ahmed Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium Rajasthan FC Yash Thakur Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Vidarbha FC & LA Vaibhav Arora Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Himachal Pradesh T20 Yash Dayal Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium Uttar Pradesh FC Akash Deep Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Bengal FC Tushar Deshpande Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Mumbai FC Anshul Kamboj Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Haryana FC, LA & T20 Aaqib Khan Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Uttar Pradesh T20 Prasidh Krishna Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Karnataka FC Mukesh Kumar Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Bengal FC Harshit Rana Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Delhi FC Navdeep Saini Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Delhi FC Rasikh Salam Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Baroda T20 Gurnoor Brar Left-handed Right-arm Fast Punjab FC
See also India men's national cricket team India women's national cricket team India national under-19 cricket team India women's national under-19 cricket team India B cricket team Board of control for cricket in india (BCCI) BCCI Awards National Cricket Academy (NCA) Cricket in India Sport in India – Overview of sports in India Glossary of cricket terms
References
External links Espncricinfo India A