Badani to lead India A in one-dayers

Hemang Badani will lead India A in all one-day games on their tour of England. The team left Mumbai for England on the early hours of Sunday. Shiv Sunder Das, who was earlier named captain of the team, will now lead the side in all the other matches. Brijesh Patel, chairman of selectors, told The Hindu, "Badani is a one-day prospect and also is an experienced player. We (the selectors) thought he is the better candidate to lead the side while Das has only a limited role in one-dayers."

India A will play four one-dayers, one four-day match and six three-day games in their 45-day tour of England. After kicking off their tour against a young British Universities side, India A face off against increasingly tougher opponents.

Interestingly, they come up against Yuvraj Singh (versus Yorkshire) and Mohammad Kaif (versus Leicestershire) before playing against the touring South Africans at Arundel from July 19 to 21.

India A squad
SS Das (capt), Wasim Jaffer, Gautam Gambhir, Satyajit Parab, Hemang Badani (ODI capt), Sridharan Sriram, Ambati Rayudu, Rohan Gavaskar, Vijay Bharadwaj, Parthiv Patel (wk), L Balaji, Aavishkar Salvi, Amit Bhandari, Irfan Pathan Jr, Murali Kartik, Amit Mishra.