Hrishikesh Kanitkar to be India A head coach for England tour
MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has appointed former India allrounder Hrishikesh Kanitkar as the head coach of the India A team for their upcoming England tour, which is scheduled to start from May 30. Rajib Dutta will be the bowling coach of the side, while Joydeep Bhattacharya will be the fielding coach.The Abhimanyu Easwaran-captained India A are scheduled to play three matches on their upcoming England tour – two against the England Lions (May 30-June 2 in Canterbury and June 6-9 in Northampton) and one against the senior India squad (June 13-16) after that. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir will arrive in England with the first bunch of players for the Test series against England, and will watch the second India A match. The ‘shadow tour’ holds significant importance as part of the preparations for the Indian senior team’s five-match Test series against England, which will start on June 20 at Leeds.Who’s that IPL player?The vastly-experienced Kanitkar, who played for India in two Tests and 34 ODIs, scored 10,400 runs in 146 first-class matches@52.26. The former Maharashtra player has coached the Indian women’s team (to a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2022), India A and the India Under-19 team (to the Under-19 World Cup win in 2022) in the past.
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India A squad:Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel (VC) (WK), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shardul Thakur, Ishan Kishan (WK), Manav Suthar, Tanush Kotian, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Harshit Rana, Anshul Kamboj, Khaleel Ahmed, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sarfaraz Khan, Tushar Deshpande, Harsh Dubey
Note: Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan will join the squad ahead of the second match.
