India A vs Australia A: Hrishikesh Kanitkar at helm as head coach, Sunil Joshi named bowling coach | Cricket News – The Times of India

Mumbai: Former India left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi has been named as the bowling coach of the India A workforce which can tackle Australia A in two First-Class matches later this month, adopted by three one-dayers, TOI has learnt. The sequence will begin from September 16 and the second match will start on September 23. Both the video games will happen at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. The two multi-day matches might be adopted by three one-day video games, scheduled to happen on September 30, October 3 and October 5 in Kanpur.Apart from Joshi, the opposite new appointment within the India A set-up is that of present Mumbai assistant coach Atul Ranade, who has been named as India A’s fielding coach for this tour. The head coach of the facet might be former India allrounder Hrishikesh Kanitkar, a put up he has recurrently been on in the previous couple of years. “Joshi and Ranade have been appointed just for the Australia A series,” a supply informed this paper.A former Mumbai seamer, Ranade was Vidarbha’s assistant coach after they received the 2024-25 Ranji Trophy, and reached the ultimate within the 2023-24 season. The 54-yr-outdated Joshi performed 15 Tests and 69 ODIs for India between 1996 and 2002, selecting up 110 wickets throughout each codecs along with his left-arm spin, apart from scoring 936 runs.

A stalwart of Indian home facet Karnataka by way of the Nineties and 2000s, he performed 160 first-class video games, 163 List A matches and 15 T20s. He served as a nationwide selector from 2020 to early 2023, and is at present the assistant coach & spin bowling coach of IPL franchise Punjab Kings, the place Ricky Ponting is the head coach. He was the head coach of Uttar Pradesh for the previous couple of home seasons. He has additionally labored with Bangladesh’s nationwide males’s workforce as its spin bowling guide.