India A vs Australia A in India

Any news on the match today?

Nope.

The scorecard will be updated only after the end of the day's play.

http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/india/content/current/match/366302.html

Don't have the scorecard yet

BUT

NZ 'A' dominate India 'A' on day one.

Now the scorecard is up.

Kiwis have scored 270 runs and have lost just 3 wickets. RPS took 1 for 57 while Mishra has taken 2 for 62.

http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/india/engine/current/match/366302.html

Amit Mishra takes 6 wickets and Ganguly fails, getting run out for just 14.

Chandan wrote:http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/india/engine/current/match/366302.html

Amit Mishra takes 6 wickets and Ganguly fails, getting run out for just 14.

Why on earth did they drop Dhawan? And finally Pujara is picked and is doing well.

India ‘A’ fails to take the lead

This article highlights the frailities of our A side in all the departments. Catches were dropped, batting was below par with good batsmen having been dropped for poor ones, and Mishra apart bowling was not good either.

Facing controlled bowling to fields choking one side of the wicket, India ‘A’s scoring congealed: seven wickets added 114 in 57 overs. Part-time leggie Aaron Redmond, with a wicket-taking mojo that came with a first-innings century, took four wickets. New Zealand ‘A’ had a lead of 146 and seven wickets in hand at stumps.

Fulton survived two early jolts. Pradeep Sangwan rushed in from deep mid-wicket, to spill a top-edged hook off R.P. Singh. Ashok Dinda misjudged a similar mishit off Sangwan the next over, advancing two steps from mid-on before realising the ball would carry beyond him.

Coming in after Vijay’s exit, Ravindra Jadeja played with a puzzling torpor. With the lower-order sinking at the other end, India ‘A’s chance of taking the lead dwindled, and Jadeja was last out, holing out to long-on off Redmond. His 33 had consumed 125 balls.

As long as the A team games show that there's at least one guy knocking loudly on the door, then you shouldn't be too worried. Kumble, Harbhajan, Chawla, Ojha, and Mishra. Methinks Indian spin bowling is in pretty good order at the moment with the last 3 out of that 5 in the last week putting a lot of pressure on Kumble and Bhajji to perform. It can only be healthy.

Rohit, Kohli, Yuvraj, Jaffer, Raina, Pujara, Tiwary, Dhawan- The back up batting isn't too shabby either.

Just the fast bowling would appear to lack depth. Zaheer, Ishant, Munaf, Sreesanth, and RP Singh are a talented bunch, but they're all injury prone, and apart from Zaheer and Ishant, they aren't very consistent.

I don't know why they dumped YoMahesh. He is very young and was coming along nicely.

You cannot count out Pathan as well. I'm sure he will put things together quite soon, once he'll be out of international cricket's glare. Praveen Kumar is not suited for tests. Let us see if any new prospect comes up during this season or not.

pathan is not a test class bowler

they need some new guys to push the present lot. like sangwan, et al

In the final match vs NZ A , India A collapsed for just 100 runs in the 4th inning to hand over the series leveling victory to NZ A.

Ganguly and RP Singh had a miserable match in which none of the players could achieve the much needed practice or to gain back their rhythm. This time Raina was run out for just 5 while Pujara departed for a duck.

http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/372648.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

FTB failed in the first innings as well. Proves my point.

Whenever conditions aren't ideal for batting he invariably fails.