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Focus on white-ball cricket, India A’s ‘shadow tour’ may resume after ODI World Cup

With the focus now on the 2023 ODI World Cup on home soil, the ‘shadow tour’ with the India A team will have to wait till the year-end tour of South Africa. The idea of ​​this ‘shadow tour’ started after Rahul Dravid became the National Cricket Academy (NCA) chief. ‘Shadow tours’ are those in which the India A team visits the same country that the senior Test team is to tour later. In December last year, India A toured Bangladesh after which the Test team had to play two matches.

A source in the BCCI (Indian Cricket Board) said on the condition of confidentiality, “Apart from the WTC (World Test Championship) final this year, the focus will be on ODIs till the World Cup. That’s why A team’s tour for red ball matches can happen only after November. “India will tour South Africa for a Test in the next WTC cycle in December-January,” he said. There is every possibility that India A’s ‘shadow tour’ will resume before then. ,

After the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and before the ODI World Cup, the Indian team will play only three Tests, including a possible WTC final at The Oval and two Tests in the West Indies for the next WTC cycle in July-August. The WTC final will be a single match, so there is no need for a ‘shadow tour’ and it will be played after the Indian Premier League.

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