Yuzvendra Chahal named in India A squad to face South Africa A

With an aim to prepare him for the Test format legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal was today named in the India A team for the two fourday matches against South Africa A starting August 4 The selection committee meeting was held in KolkataChahal who has been an automatic choice in the limited overs format has not played any firstclass cricket since December 2016 against Haryana in Ranji Trophy but the Indian team management and especially skipper Virat Kohli has indicated that he wants the wiry legspinner for fiveday matches alsoThe first of the two games will be played in Belgaum August 47 followed by the second in Bengaluru August 1013 It is widely believed that Chahal is being kept matchready as the selectors have named senior squad for only three Test matches The current team management want wrist spinners in their squad KuldeepChahal combination has worked pretty well in the limited oversHowever Chahal has not played too many firstclass matches 27 games 70 wickets This is an ideal opportunity to test him Even if he is not picked for last two Tests against England selectors might try him against West Indies at home a source close to the selection committee told PTIThere is a school of thought that Ravindra Jadeja will be slowly eased out of the longer version if Chahal is able to show his skills in the fourday games The fourday team will be led by Shreyas Iyer with most of the players who were in England for the firstclass matches being pickedAmong leftarm spinners Axar Patel will play the first game while Shahbaz Nadeem will replace him in the second The four pacers Rajneesh Gurbani Mohammed Siraj Ankit Rajpoot and Navdeep Saini are also there in the team The batting lineup comprises Prithvi Shaw Mayank Agarwal Hanuma Vihari all of whom enjoyed success in EnglandFor the quadrangular One Day series involving South Africa A and Australia Shreyas and Manish Pandey has been named captains of India A and B respectively Most of the fringe players have been selected along with IPL performers Leg spinner Mayank Markande who was the find for Mumbai Indians during this IPL has found a place in the India A sideThe India B side has players like leftarm seamer Kulwant Khejroliya and leftarm spinner Dharmendra Jadeja who have done well in the Vijay Hazare Trophy The selectors also named India Red Blue and Green teams for the DayNight Duleep Trophy starting August 17Vidarbhas Ranji Trophy winning captain Faiz Fazal Blue veteran Parthiv Patel green and Abhinav Mukund Red have been named captains of the three teams respectivelySquadsIndia A for fourday games vs SA A Shreyas Iyer captain Prithvi Shaw Ravikumar Samarth Mayank Agarwal Abhimanyu Easwaran Hanuma Vihari Ankit Bawne Kona Bharat WK Axar Patel 1st gameShahbaz Nadeem 2nd game Yuzvendra Chahal Jayant Yadav Rajneesh Gurbani Navdeep Saini Ankit Rajpoot Mohammed SirajFor the Quadrangular SeriesIndia A Shreyas Iyer Captain Prithvi Shaw R Samarth Suryakumar Yadav Hanuma Vihari Nitish Rana Siddhesh Lad Sanju Samson WK Mayank Markande K Gowtham Krunal Pandya Deepak Chahar Md Siraj Shivam Mavi Khaleel AhmedIndia B Manish Pandey Captain Mayank Agarwal AR Easwaran Shubhman Gill Deepak Hooda Ricky Bhui Vijay Shankar Ishan Kishan WK Shreyas Gopal Jayant Yadav DA Jadeja Siddarth Kaul Prasidh Krishna Kulwant Khejroliya Navdeep SainiFor Duleep TrophyIndia Blue Faiz Fazal Captain Abhishek Raman Anmolpreet Singh Ganesh Satish N Gangta Dhruv Shorey KS Bharat WK Akshay Wakhare Saurav Kumar Swapnil Singh Basil Thampi B Ayappa Jaydev Unadkat Dhawal KulkarniIndia Red Abhinav Mukund Captain RR Sanjay Ashutosh Singh Baba Aparajith Writtick Chatterjee B Sandeep Abhishek Gupta WK S Nadeem Mihir Hirwani Parvez Rasool R Gurbani A Mithun Ishan Porel Y Prithvi RajIndia Green Parthiv Patel Captain amp WK Prashant Chopra Priyank Panchal Sudeep Chatterjee Gurkeerat Mann Baba Indrajit VP Solanki Jajal Saxena Karn Sharma Vikas Mishra K Vignesh Ankit Rajpoot Ashok Dinda Atith ShethItinerarySA A Tests 1st Test August 47 Belgaum 2nd Test Bengaluru August 1013Quadrangular Series dates August 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 final All matches at VijaywadaAlso Read England Spinners OutBowled Kuldeep And Chahal Says Phil TufnellCatch up on all the latest sports news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever