BCCI name strong India A squad for South Africa tour

Test squad: Priyank Panchal, Abhinav Mukund, Shreyas Iyer, Ankit Bawne, Karun Nair (capt.), Sudip Chatterjee, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hanuma Vihari, Jayant Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Aniket Choudhary and Ankit Rajpoot. (Photo: PTI)

ODI squad: Mandeep Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Manish Pandey (capt.), Deepak Hooda, Karun Nair, Krunal Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wk), Vijay Shankar, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jayant Yadav, Basil Thampi, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur and Siddarth Kaul. (Photo: AP)

India A are scheduled to play tri-series which has South Africa and Australia and then followed by two four-day matches against South Africa.

The BCCI has named a strong squad with 8 players who already have senior team experience under their belt.

Mumbai Indians’ key player Krunal Pandya, who has only first-class match appearance, has been named in the squad. (Photo: BCCI)

IPL’s emerging player Basil Thampi along with Siddharth Kaul and Mohammad Siraj will travel with the team to South Arica.

Karun Nair, Jayant Yadav, Abhinav Mukund, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Manish Pandey, Mandeep singh, Sanju Samson and Rishabh Pant have represented the national.

While, Manish Pandey has been appointed as the skipper of ODI team.

The Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced India A squad to tour South Africa. (Photo: AFP)

Triple centurion Karun Nair has been named as the captain for Test team (Photo: AP)