{"id":9110,"date":"2025-09-14T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=636921"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:58:45","slug":"rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli-not-part-of-india-a-squad-to-return-on-october-19-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli-not-part-of-india-a-squad-to-return-on-october-19-in-perth\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli not part of India A squad, to return on October 19 in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"520\">The BCCI on Sunday, <strong data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"211\">September 14<\/strong>, announced the squads for the upcoming <strong data-start=\"251\" data-end=\"292\">India A vs Australia A one-day series<\/strong> to be held at <strong data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"337\">Green Park Stadium, Kanpur<\/strong>, later this month. The big news is that <strong data-start=\"378\" data-end=\"410\">Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli<\/strong> will not feature in the India A matches. The duo will instead make their return on <strong data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"517\">October 19 in Perth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"522\" data-end=\"548\">India A squad details<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"549\" data-end=\"794\">The three-match one-day series will see <strong data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"606\">Rajat Patidar<\/strong> leading the India A side in the opening clash on <strong data-start=\"656\" data-end=\"672\">September 30<\/strong>. For the second and third matches, <strong data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"723\">Tilak Varma<\/strong> will take over captaincy duties, with Patidar serving as his deputy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"796\" data-end=\"906\">Delhi\u2019s <strong data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"821\">Priyansh Arya<\/strong>, who rose to prominence during IPL 2025, has earned a call-up for the first match.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"908\" data-end=\"959\">India A squad for 1st one-day match (Sept 30)<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"960\" data-end=\"1184\">Rajat Patidar (Captain), Prabhsimran Singh (WK), Riyan Parag, Ayush Badoni, Suryansh Shedge, Vipraj Nigam, Nishant Sindhu, Gurjapneet Singh, Yudhvir Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Abhishek Porel (WK), Priyansh Arya, Simarjeet Singh.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1235\">India A squad for 2nd & 3rd one-day matches<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1236\" data-end=\"1493\">Tilak Varma (Captain), Rajat Patidar (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh (WK), Riyan Parag, Ayush Badoni, Suryansh Shedge, Vipraj Nigam, Nishant Sindhu, Gurjapneet Singh, Yudhvir Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Abhishek Porel (WK), Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1495\" data-end=\"1536\">Why Rohit and Kohli are not included<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1537\" data-end=\"1783\">Both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are currently unavailable due to India\u2019s commitments in the <strong data-start=\"1631\" data-end=\"1648\">Asia Cup 2025<\/strong>. The selectors have chosen to rest them for the India A matches, with their official comeback scheduled for <strong data-start=\"1757\" data-end=\"1780\">October 19 at Perth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BCCI on Sunday, September 14, announced the squads for the upcoming India A vs Australia A one-day series to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":30696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}