Abhay Sharma Appointed as India A Fielding Coach for New Zealand Series

Sep 23, 2017 at 11:31 AM

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Abhay Sharma Appointed as India A Fielding Coach for New Zealand Series

Abhay Sharma is named as the fielding coach of India A for the upcoming series against New Zealand A. He has replaced Vijay Yadav in the role, who travelled to South Africa with the A side.

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Abhay had previously served as the fielding coach of Indian team during tours of Zimbabwe and West Indies. Later, he was replaced by R Sridhar.

Abhay will join Rahul Dravid – Head Coach of India A – in the backroom staff for the series. Dravid was appointed as the Head Coach of the India A and India U19 in June for two years. Though he did not travel to England due to commitments with India A, and it was WV Raman who guided the junior team.

Abhay was also the part of the backroom staff who worked with the junior team in England. There, the visiting team defeated England in both one-day and Test format to clinch the series.

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The series between India A and New Zealand A starts on September 23. The two unofficial Test matches will be played in Vijayawada. A five-match One-Day series will follow. All the One-Dayers will be played in Visakhapatnam.

Karun Nair will lead the India A side in the unofficial Test matches. The squad consists of the likes of Rishabh Pant, Navdeep Saini, Priyank Panchal and Shardul Thakur. Karn Sharma is the latest addition to the team, as he replaced all-rounder Krishnappa Gowtham just a day ago.

The latter was dropped from the side on the disciplinary basis, as he skipped the Duleep Trophy games to play Karnataka Premier League (KPL). Though KSCA had said the player did not know about the dates of the schedule; BCCI did not listen to the request of the state association.

India A squad: Priyank Panchal, R Samarth, Sudip Chatterjee, Shreyas Iyer, Ankit Bawne, Karun Nair (captain), Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shahbaz Nadeem, K Gowtham, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Ankit Rajpoot.

New Zealand A squad: Henry Nicholls (captain), Todd Astle, Tom Blundell (wicketkeeper), Tom Bruce, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Scott Kuggeleijn, Colin Munro, Seth Rance, Tim Seifert (wicketkeeper), Ish Sodhi, Sean Solia, George Worker, Will Young, Jeet Raval.

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