# New Zealand 'A' cricket team in India in 2017

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. New Zealand A was captained by Henry Nicholls. The two first-class matches were played at the ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground and the limited overs matches at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam.

## Squads

| Test cricket | Test cricket | One Day Internationals (ODIs) | One Day Internationals (ODIs) |
| India A | New Zealand A | India A | New Zealand A |
| 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. Colin de Grandhomme replaced Sean Solia for the ODI series.

## First-class series
### 1st unofficial Test

* 23–26 September 2017 Scorecard
* 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
* 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.

## Unofficial ODI Series
### 1st Unofficial 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 Unofficial ODI

* 10 October 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 Unofficial 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 Unofficial 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 Unofficial 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.