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Former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan has slammed the selectors for not even picking tearaway pacer Umran Malik in the India A squad for the tour of South Africa. After the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced India and India A squad for the multi-format series on South African soil, Pathan took to social media to express his disappointment.
“I’m pretty sure the guy who was in the Indian team’s playing 11 few months back can surely find a place in India A side,” Pathan wrote in a post on his X account, formerly known as Twitter.
However, the reason behind Malik’s name missing from India A squads can be the left foot injury he picked up in Jammu & Kashmir’s opening encounter of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023. Against Karnataka in Ahmedabad, he conceded 68 runs from eight overs. He could not complete his quota of 10 overs. Later, he did not come out to bat after nine wickets fell in the mammoth run chase as J & K were bowled out for 180 losing the match by 222 runs.
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Malik made his limited-overs debut last year. His last ODI appearance was against West Indies in July 2023 where he conceded 27 runs from three overs in a low-scoring affair. In his last T20I appearance, he took a couple of wickets for nine runs from 2.1 overs against New Zealand.
India A squad for the 1st four-day match: Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Sarfaraz Khan, KS Bharat (C)(wk), Dhruv Jurel, Shardul Thakur, Pulkit Narang, Sourabh Kumar, Manav Suthar, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Tushar Deshpande.
India Inter-squad three-day match: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, KS Bharat (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Pulkit Narang, Harshit Rana, Shardul Thakur, Sourabh Kumar, Manav Suthar, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini.
India A squad for 3rd four-day match: Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, KS Bharat (C)(wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Manav Suthar, Akash Deep, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Navdeep Saini.
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