Thursday, 7 January 2016

Krishna Das selected for India 'A'


Assam pace sensation Krishna Das has been selected for India A.The Indian selectors on Tuesday picked up two teams- India ‘A’ and India ‘B’ for the Deodhar Trophy cricket tournament, starting January 24. Baroda batsman Ambati Rayudu has been selected as India 'A' team captain and Delhi's Unmukt Chand will lead India 'B'.

Krishna, who hails from Barpeta, took his 100th wicket in the Ranji match against Delhi in Guwahati. Krishna achieved this feat in the 27th match, trapping  Gautam Gambhir LBW for a duck.

The 25-year-old Krishna has played extraordinary cricket in Assam’s Ranji Trophy group A league campaign in the 2015-16 season. The long-limbed pacer took 44 wickets from eight matches and became the fifth highest wicket-taker of the season. Krishna also picked up Unmukt Chand to have 101 under his belt and with this feat he became the second fastest from Assam to achieve the mark in only 27 Ranji matches.Krishna’s achievement includes five-wicket hauls with the best being seven for 21 against Odisha in Cuttack.

Squads India 'A': Ambati Rayudu (captain), Murali Vijay, Jalaj Saxena, Mandeep Singh,  Kedar Jadhav, Krishna Das, Naman Ojha, Siddharth Kaul, Parvez Rasool, Amit Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem,  Sreenath Aravind, Varun Aaron,  Sudip Chatterjee and Faiz Fazal.

India 'B': Unmukt Chand (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Dinesh Karthik, Baba Aparajith, Stuart Binny, Shreyas Iyer, Sheldon Jackson, Karn Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Sachin Baby, Dhawal Kulkarni, Nathu Singh, Shardul Thakur, Pawan Negi and Suryakumar Yadav

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