New Zealand 'A' cricket team in India in 2017

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New Zealand 'A' cricket team in India in 2017
	India 'A'	New Zealand 'A'
Dates	23 September 2017 – 15 October 2017
Captains	Karun Nair (Tests) Shreyas Iyer (First 3 ODIs) Rishabh Pant (Last 2 ODIs)	Henry Nicholls
FC series
Result	India 'A' won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Shreyas Iyer (190)	Jeet Raval (150)
Most wickets	Karn Sharma (16)	Ish Sodhi (8)
LA series
Result	India 'A' won the 5-match series 3–0
Most runs	Abhimanyu Easwaran (132)	George Worker (175)
Most wickets	Karn Sharma (9)	Scott Kuggeleijn (7)

The New Zealand A cricket team toured India in September and October 2017. On this tour they played two first-class matches and five limited-overs matches against the India A team.^[1] New Zealand A was captained by Henry Nicholls. The two first-class matches were played at the ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground^[2] and the limited overs matches at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam.

Squads

Test cricket		One Day Internationals (ODIs)
India A[3][4]	New Zealand A[5]	India A[6]	New Zealand A[5][7]
Karun Nair (c) Priyank Panchal Ravikumar Samarth Sudip Chatterjee Shreyas Iyer Ankit Bawne Hanuma Vihari Rishabh Pant (wk) Shahbaz Nadeem Krishnappa Gowtham Navdeep Saini Shardul Thakur Mohammed Siraj Ankit Rajpoot Parthiv Patel (wk)	Henry Nicholls (c) Todd Astle Tom Blundell Tom Bruce Lockie Ferguson Matt Henry Scott Kuggeleijn Colin Munro Glenn Phillips (wk) Seth Rance Jeet Raval Tim Seifert (wk) Ish Sodhi Sean Solia George Worker Will Young	Shreyas Iyer (c, first 3 ODIs) Prithvi Shaw Mayank Agarwal Deepak Hooda Shubham Gill Shreevats Goswami (wk, first 3 ODIs) Shahbaz Nadeem Karn Sharma Vijay Shankar Shardul Thakur Siddarth Kaul Mohammed Siraj Basil Thampi Rishabh Pant (c, wk, for last 2 ODIs) Abhimanyu Easwaran Prashant Chopra Ankit Bawne Baba Aparajith	Henry Nicholls (c) Todd Astle Tom Blundell Tom Bruce Lockie Ferguson Matt Henry Scott Kuggeleijn Colin Munro Glenn Phillips (wk) Seth Rance Tim Seifert (wk) Ish Sodhi Colin de Grandhomme George Worker Will Young

Parthiv Patel replaced Rishabh Pant for the second Test due to Pant's injury.^[4] Colin de Grandhomme replaced Sean Solia for the ODI series.^[7]

First-class series

1st unofficial Test

23–26 September 2017 Scorecard

New Zealand A	v	India A
147 (63 overs) Tim Seifert 35* (114) Shahbaz Nadeem 4/39 (23 overs)		320 (67.2 overs) Shreyas Iyer 108 (97)[8] Ish Sodhi 5/94 (22 overs)
142 (63.1 overs) George Worker 35 (112) Shahbaz Nadeem 4/51 (20.1 overs)

India 'A' won by an innings and 31 runs. ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Vijayawada Umpires: Chirra Ravikanthreddy and Krishnamachari Srinivasan

• New Zealand 'A' won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd unofficial Test

30 September – 3 October 2017 Scorecard

New Zealand A	v	India A
211 (69.5 overs) Colin Munro 65(82) Shardul Thakur 3/34 (12 overs)		447 (110 overs) Ankit Bawne 163(245) Ish Sodhi 3/120(25 overs)
210 (79.3 overs) Henry Nicholls 94(190) Karn Sharma 5/78 (20.3 overs)

India 'A' won by an innings and 26 runs. ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Vijayawada Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Nitin Pandit

• New Zealand 'A' won the toss and elected to bat.

ODI Series

1st ODI

6 October Scorecard

India A	v	New Zealand A

Match abandoned without a ball being bowled Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Umpires: Rohan Pandit (Ind) and Sadashiv Iyer (Ind)

• no toss

2nd ODI

10 October[9] Scorecard

New Zealand A 269/6 (42 overs)	v	India A 269/9 (42 overs)
Glenn Phillips 140 (130) Siddarth Kaul 3/65 (9 overs)		Shreyas Iyer 90 (73) Todd Astle 4/22 (9 overs)

Match Tied. Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam

• India 'A' won the toss and elected to bowl
• Match Reduced to 42 overs per-side due to wet outfield

3rd ODI

11 October 13:30 Scorecard

New Zealand A 143 (37.1 overs)	v	India A 144/4 (24.4 overs)
Henry Nicholls 35 (51) Karn Sharma 5/22 (8 overs)		Vijay Shankar 47*(42) Ish Sodhi 2/31 (5 overs)

India A won by 6 wickets. Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Umpires: Rohan Pandit and Puttarangaiah Jayapal Player of the match: Karn Sharma (India A)

• New Zealand A won the toss and elected to bat.

4th ODI

13 October 09:00 Scorecard

India A 289/6 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand A 225 (45.1 overs)
Abhimanyu Easwaran 83 (104) Scott Kuggeleijn 2/37 (9 overs)		George Worker 108 (113) Shahbaz Nadeem 4/33 (9.1 overs)

India A won by 64 runs. Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Umpires: Rohan Pandit and Puttarangaiah Jayapal Player of the match: Shahbaz Nadeem (India A)

• India A won the toss and elected to bat.

5th ODI

15 October 09:00 Scorecard

New Zealand A 173 (44.2 overs)	v	India A 174/7 (32.1 overs)
Henry Nicholls 40 (72) Basil Thampi 3/19 (6 overs)		Abhimanyu Easwaran 49 (51) Lockie Ferguson 3/24 (6.1 overs)

India A won by 3 wickets Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer (Ind) and Puttarangaiah Jayapal (Ind) Player of the match: Basil Thampi (India A)

• New Zealand A won the toss and elected to bat.

See also

• New Zealand cricket team in India in 2017–18

References

External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo