In July and August 2018,

South Africa A cricket team The South Africa A cricket team is a national cricket team representing South Africa. It is the second-tier of international South African cricket, below the full South Africa national cricket team. Matches played by South Africa A are not Test ...

visited India to play two first-class matches against

India A The India A cricket team is a national cricket team representing India. It is the second-tier of Indian international cricket, below the full India national cricket team. The team is currently captained by Priyank Panchal in first-class cricket a ...

. India A won the two-match series 1–0. They were joined by India B and

Australia A cricket team The Australia A cricket team is a cricket team representing Australia and is the second team of the Australian cricket team. In the Australian summer of 1994–95, the (then) Benson and Hedges World Series Cup was expanded to involve four teams ...

for a List-A Quadrangular Series in August. India-B defeated Australia-A in the final to win the series. After Quadrangular series, Australia-A played two first-class matches against India A.The two-match series was drawn 1-1.

India 'A' vs South Africa 'A' First-Class Series

Squads

Three-Day Warm-up Match : Indian Board's President's XI vs South Africa 'A'

1st Unofficial Test

2nd Unofficial Test

Quadrangular Series

The quadrangular series was initially scheduled to be held at

Vijayawada Vijayawada, formerly known as Bezawada, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is a part of the state's Capital Region. It is the administrative headquarters of the NTR district. Its metropolitan region comprises NT ...

but was forced to move out due to the incessant rains after the first four games of the series were washed out without a ball bowled. The venue was shifted to

Bengaluru Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

Squads

Vijay Shankar was ruled out of the quadrangular series due to the left hamstring injury. On August 22,

Ambati Rayudu Ambati Thirupathi Rayudu (born 23 September 1985) is an Indian cricketer who currently captains the Baroda cricket team in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy championship. He played 61 limited overs matches for the India national cricket team between ...

and

Kedar Jadhav Kedar Mahadev Jadhav (born 26 March 1985) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Maharashtra and has also played for the Indian national cricket team. He is a batting all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off-break, and occasionall ...

were added to the

and India B squads respectively while

Siddhesh Lad Siddhesh Dinesh Lad (born 23 May 1992) is a cricketer who plays for Goa in Indian domestic cricket. He is a right-hand batsman and occasional right arm off break bowler. Lad was the captain of the Western Wolves team in the Toyota University ...

and

Ricky Bhui Ricky Bhui (born 29 September 1996) is an Indian professional cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional leg spinner. Bhui scored an unbeaten hundred on his List A debut and also scored an unbeaten hundred on his Twenty20 debut. He ...

were released from the squads for the

Duleep Trophy The Duleep Trophy, also known as Mastercard Duleep trophy due to sponsorship reasons, is a domestic first-class cricket competition played in India. Named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji of Nawanagar (also known as 'Duleep'), the competition wa ...

Hanuma Vihari Gade Hanuma Vihari (born 13 October 1993) is an Indian international cricketer who has played for Indian cricket team. He currently plays for Andhra and captains them in Ranji Trophy. Vihari was a member of India that won test series in Austr ...

and

Prithvi Shaw Prithvi Pankaj Shaw (born 9 November 1999) is an Indian international cricketer who played for the Indian cricket team in all formats. He currently plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket and Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League. He debuted ...

from India A were added to the

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

squad for the ongoing England tour. On August 25,

Jayant Yadav Jayant Yadav (born 22 January 1990) is an Indian cricketer from Delhi who plays for Haryana in domestic cricket. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed, and bowls right-arm off-break. He made his international debut in October 2016. Domest ...

was diagnosed with a right side strain and was ruled out of the tournament with

Jalaj Saxena Jalaj Sahai Saxena (born 15 December 1986) is an Indian cricketer. An all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off spin, he is one of the most consistent performers in the Indian domestic circuit for over a decade. He made his domes ...

being named as his replacement for India B. On August 27,

Bhuvneshwar Kumar Bhuvneshwar Kumar Singh (born 5 February 1990) is an Indian international cricketer who is playing for the Indian cricket team. He currently plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League and Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. He is ...

has been added to the India-A squad to play in the third-place play-off against South Africa A.

Points Table

Top two teams advanced to the final

Matches

1st Match

2nd Match

3rd Match

4th Match

5th Match

6th Match

7th Match

8th Match

9th Match

10th Match

Third place play-off

Final

India 'A' vs Australia 'A' First-Class series

The first-class series was initially scheduled to be held at

but was forced to move to Bengaluru due to depression in Bay of Bengal, which had resulted in heavy showers in Andhra Pradesh.

India 'A' vs South Africa 'A' First-Class Series

Squads

Three-Day Warm-up Match : Indian Board's President's XI vs South Africa 'A'

1st Unofficial Test

2nd Unofficial Test

Quadrangular Series

Squads

Points Table

Matches

1st Match

2nd Match

3rd Match

4th Match

5th Match

6th Match

7th Match

8th Match

9th Match

10th Match

Third place play-off

Final

India 'A' vs Australia 'A' First-Class series

Squads

1st Unofficial Test

2nd Unofficial Test

Statistics

Most runs

Most wickets

External links

References