Karun Nair, Manish Pandey to captain India A teams for South Africa tour

The All-India Senior Selection Committee met on Thursday (June 29) to select the India 'A' teams for the upcoming India 'A' tour of South Africa, 2017.

Karun Nair and Manish Pandey on Thursday were named skippers of India A's unofficial Test and one-day teams respectively, for the upcoming tour of South Africa.     

India A will take on Australia A and South Africa in a one-day Tri-series followed by two four-day matches against the South Africa A.     The tour starts with the first one-dayer of the triangular series in Groenkloof on July 26 between India A and Australia A. Karun and Jayant Yadav are two current India players who are in both the squads, while Pandey needed to be checked after coming from an injury.

The squad for the one-day series is packed with IPL and domestic limited-overs (Vijay Hazare Trophy) performers such as Krunal Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Basil Thampi, Mohammad Shirajand Siddharth Kaul.

On the other hand, the team for the four-day (first class) matches is full of Ranji Trophy performers such as Priyank Panchal, the top-scorer in the season gone by, IshanKishan, Sudeep Chatterjee, Ankit Bawne and Shahbaz Nadeem.

Also part of the first class squad is senior India fringe player Abhinav Mukund. Since India's tour of Sri Lanka also starts on July 26, it is a given that Nair won't be a part of the senior squad for the Test series.

Nair, who had started his Test career with a triple century on debut in the last home season, has since been going through a bad run of form, including in the Indian Premier League where he led Delhi Daredevils in some of the matches in the absence of regular skipper Zaheer Khan.

One-day squad:

Mandeep Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Manish Pandey (captain), Deepak Hooda, Karun Nair, Krunal Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wk), Vijay Shankar, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, JayantYadav, Basil Thampi, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Siddarth Kaul.

Squad for four-day matches:

Priyank Panchal Abhinav Mukund, Shreyas Iyer, Ankit Bawne, Karun Nair (Captain) chance to stake claim for , Sudip Chatterjee, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hanuma Vihari, Jayant Yadavspecialist, Shahbaz Nadeem, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Aniket Choudhary, Ankit Rajpoot.

Fixtures:    1st one-dayer - India A vs Australia A - July 262nd one-dayer - South Africa A vs India A - July 283rd one-dayer - South Africa A vs Australia A - July 304th one-dayer - India A vs Australia A - August 15th one-dayer - South Africa A vs India A - August 36th one-dayer - South

Africa A vs Australia A - August 5

Final - August 8

1st four-day match - South Africa A vs India A - August 12-15
2nd four-day match - South Africa A vs India A - August 19-22.