Uday Karavadra to lead West Zone Academy

Uday Karavadra of Saurashtra will lead the West Zone Cricket Academy (WZCA) in the Zonal Academy tournament to be held in Bangalore from June 28 to July 2.

WZCA's head coach and former Indian captain Nari Contractor told PTI in Mumbai on Friday that two other West Zone trainees Nikhil Rathod of Saurashtra and Yogesh Takwale of Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) have been included in the Combined team, which would be the sixth team to play in the tournament. Teams from the five zonal academies are the other participating sides in the five day competition.

The team: Uday Karavadra (capt) and Padmanabh Jadeja (both Saurashtra), Vimal Joshi, Rakesh Solanki and Yusuf Pathan (all Baroda), Sahil Kukreja, Paul Valthaty and Vinit Indulkar (all Mumbai), Kiran Adhav from Maharashtra, Swapnil Patel, Siddharth Trivedi, Timil Patel and Hardik Parmar (all Gujarat).

The team would be accompanied by Contractor and physio-cum-trainer Vaibhav Daga.