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Shreyas Iyer was connected Thursday (September 25, 2025) appointed India ‘A’ skipper for a three-match one-day bid against Australia successful Kanpur from September 30, mounting him up for a imaginable enactment relation with the elder 50-over broadside adjacent though helium volition beryllium distant from red-ball cricket for the adjacent six months.
Besides Iyer, who precocious informed the BCCI’s president of selectors Ajit Agarkar that helium cannot instrumentality the rigours of red-ball cricket owing to a stiff back, the different cardinal players successful the India ‘A’ squad are Ravi Bishnoi, wicketkeeper-batter Prabhsimran Singh, big-hitting all-rounder Riyan Parag and Ayush Badoni among others.
Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh, who are presently successful the UAE for Asia Cup, volition articulation the broadside for the 2nd and 3rd lucifer connected October 3 and 5.
Rajat Patidar was named skipper of the Rest of India squad for the Irani Cup clash against Vidarbha from October 1 successful Nagpur.
"Mr Shreyas Iyer has informed the BCCI of his determination to instrumentality a six-month interruption from red-ball cricket. Having undergone backmost country successful the UK and managed his betterment well, helium has precocious experienced recurring backmost spasms and stiffness portion playing the longer format," BCCI caput Devajit Saikia said successful a statement.
"He wishes to utilise this play to physique endurance, assemblage resilience and enactment connected his fitness. In presumption of his decision, helium was not considered for enactment for the Irani Cup," helium added.
Squads:
India A squad for 1st one-day match: Shreyas Iyer (c), Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Riyan Parag, Ayush Badoni, Suryansh Shedge, Vipraj Nigam, Nishant Sindhu, Gurjapneet Singh, Yudhvir Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Abhishek Porel (WK), Priyansh Arya, Simarjeet Singh.
India A squad for 2nd and 3rd one-day matches: Shreyas Iyer (C), Tilak Varma (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh (WK), Riyan Parag, Ayush Badoni, Suryansh Shedge, Vipraj Nigam, Nishant Sindhu, Gurjapneet Singh, Yudhvir Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Abhishek Porel (WK), Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh.
Rest of India squad (Irani Cup): Rajat Patidar (C), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Aryan Juyal (WK), Ruturaj Gaikwad (VC), Yash Dhull, Shaikh Rasheed, Ishan Kishan (WK), Tanush Kotian, Manav Suthar, Gurnoor Brar, Khaleel Ahmed, Akash Deep, Anshul Kamboj, Saransh Jain.
