# Australia A and South Africa A cricket team in India in 2018

In July and August 2018, South Africa A cricket team visited India to play two first-class matches against India A. India A won the two-match series 1–0. They were joined by India B and Australia A cricket team for a List-A Quadrangular Series in August. India-B defeated Australia-A in the final to win the series. After Quadrangular series, Australia-A played two first-class matches against India A.The two-match series was drawn 1-1.

## India 'A' vs South Africa 'A' First-Class Series
### Squads

| India A | South Africa A | Board President's XI |
| Shreyas Iyer (c) Prithvi Shaw Ravikumar Samarth Mayank Agarwal Abhimanyu Easwaran Hanuma Vihari Ankit Bawne Srikar Bharat Axar Patel Shahbaz Nadeem Yuzvendra Chahal Jayant Yadav Rajneesh Gurbani Navdeep Saini Ankit Rajpoot Mohammed Siraj | Khaya Zondo (c) Sarel Erwee Zubayr Hamza Beuran Hendricks Pieter Malan Senuran Muthusamy Mthiwekhaya Nabe Anrich Nortje Duanne Olivier Dane Piedt Dwaine Pretorius Rudi Second Rassie van der Dussen Malusi Siboto Shaun von Berg | Ishan Kishan (c) Sanjay Ramaswamy Abhimanyu Easwaran Dhruv Shorey Anmolpreet Singh Ricky Bhui Jalaj Saxena Siddhesh Lad Mihir Hirwani Dharmendrasinh Jadeja Avesh Khan Shivam Mavi Ishan Porel Atit Sheth |

### Three-Day Warm-up Match : Indian Board's President's XI vs South Africa 'A'

* 30 July – 1 August 2018 Scorecard
* Match Drawn. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer (Ind) and Nitin Pandit (Ind)

### 1st Unofficial Test

* 4–7 August 2018 Scorecard
* India A won by an innings and 30 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Ulhas Gandhe (Ind) Player of the match: Mayank Agarwal (India A)
* South Africa A won the toss and elected to bat.

### 2nd Unofficial Test

* 10–13 August 2018 Scorecard
* Match Drawn. KSCA Alur Cricket Ground, Bengaluru Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Vineet Kulkarni (Ind) Player of the match: Hanuma Vihari (India A)
* South Africa A won the toss and elected to field.
* India won the first-class series 1-0.

## Quadrangular Series

The quadrangular series was initially scheduled to be held at Vijayawada but was forced to move out due to the incessant rains after the first four games of the series were washed out without a ball bowled. The venue was shifted to Bengaluru.

### Squads

| India A | India B | Australia A | South Africa A |
| Shreyas Iyer (c) Prithvi Shaw Ravikumar Samarth Suryakumar Yadav Hanuma Vihari Nitish Rana Siddhesh Lad Sanju Samson Mayank Markande Krishnappa Gowtham Krunal Pandya Deepak Chahar Mohammed Siraj Shivam Mavi Khaleel Ahmed Ambati Rayudu Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Manish Pandey (c) Mayank Agarwal Abhimanyu Easwaran Shubman Gill Deepak Hooda Ricky Bhui Vijay Shankar Ishan Kishan Shreyas Gopal Jayant Yadav Dharmendrasinh Jadeja Siddarth Kaul Prasidh Krishna Kulwant Khejroliya Navdeep Saini Kedar Jadhav Jalaj Saxena | Travis Head (c) Alex Carey Ashton Agar Peter Handscomb Usman Khawaja Marnus Labuschagne Michael Neser Matt Renshaw Jhye Richardson D'Arcy Short Billy Stanlake Mitchell Swepson Chris Tremain Jack Wildermuth | Khaya Zondo (c) Temba Bavuma Farhaan Behardien Gihahn Cloete Theunis de Bruyn Robert Frylinck Beuran Hendricks Sisanda Magala Pieter Malan Senuran Muthusamy Dane Paterson Rudi Second Dwaine Pretorius Tabraiz Shamsi Malusi Siboto |
Vijay Shankar was ruled out of the quadrangular series due to the left hamstring injury. On August 22, Ambati Rayudu and Kedar Jadhav were added to the India A and India B squads respectively while Siddhesh Lad and Ricky Bhui were released from the squads for the Duleep Trophy. Hanuma Vihari and Prithvi Shaw from India A were added to the India squad for the ongoing England tour. On August 25, Jayant Yadav was diagnosed with a right side strain and was ruled out of the tournament with Jalaj Saxena being named as his replacement for India B. On August 27, Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been added to the India-A squad to play in the third-place play-off against South Africa A.

### Points Table

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| India B (C) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | +0.599 |
| Australia A (RU) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | -0.204 |
| South Africa A | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | +0.006 |
| India A (3rd) | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | -0.300 |
Top two teams advanced to the final

### Matches
#### 1st Match

* 17 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| India A | v | Australia A |
* Match Abandoned without a ball bowled ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu, Krishna Umpires: Krishnamachari Srinivasan and K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan
* No toss.

#### 2nd Match

* 17 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| India B | v | South Africa A |
* Match Abandoned without a ball bowled Dr. Gokaraju Liala Gangaaraju ACA Cricket Ground, Vijayawada Umpires: Virender Sharma and Rohan Pandit
* No toss.

#### 3rd Match

* 19 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| India A | v | India B |
* Match Abandoned without a ball bowled ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu, Krishna Umpires: Virender Sharma and Yeshwant Barde
* No toss.

#### 4th Match

* 19 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| Australia A | v | South Africa A |
* Match Abandoned without a ball bowled Dr. Gokaraju Liala Gangaaraju ACA Cricket Ground, Vijayawada Umpires: Krishnamachari Srinivasan and K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan
* No toss.

#### 5th Match

* 23 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| Australia A 151 (31.4 overs) | v | India A 152/5 (38.3 overs) |
| Ashton Agar 34 (40) Mohammed Siraj 4/68 (10 overs) | | Ambati Rayudu 62* (107) Jhye Richardson 3/27 (7 overs) |
* India A Won by 5 Wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Ambati Rayudu (Ind-A)
* Australia A won the toss and elected to bat.
* Points: India-A 5, Australia-A 0.

#### 6th Match

* 23 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| South Africa A 231 (47.3 overs) | v | India B 214/5 (40.3 overs) |
| Senuran Muthusamy 55 (73) Prasidh Krishna 4/49 (7.3 overs) | | Manish Pandey 95* (105) Dane Paterson 2/33 (8 overs) |
* India B won by 30 runs (DLS method) KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Manish Pandey (Ind-B)
* India B won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain interrupted India B innings at 29.1 overs with score at 149/4 and at resumption the target was set at 220 in 45 overs.
* Rain again interrupted the innings at 40.3 overs with score at 214/5 and match could not be resumed.
* Points: India-B 4, South Africa-A 0.

#### 7th Match

* 25 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| India A 217 (49 overs) | v | India B 218/3 (41.1 overs) |
| Ambati Rayudu 48 (75) Prasidh Krishna 4/50 (8 overs) | | Mayank Agarwal 124 (114) Khaleel Ahmed 2/33 (10 overs) |
* India B won by 7 wickets KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Mayank Agarwal (Ind-B)
* India A won the toss and elected to bat first.
* Points: India-B 4, India-A 0.

#### 8th Match

* 25 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| Australia A 322/5 (50 overs) | v | South Africa A 290 (48.4 overs) |
| Travis Head 110 (117) Shaun von Berg 1/41 (7 overs) | | Khaya Zondo 117 (104) Mitchell Swepson 3/40 (10 overs) |
* Australia A won by 32 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Rohan Pandit (Ind) and KN Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) Player of the match: Travis Head (Aus-A)
* Australia A won the toss and elected to bat first.
* Points: Australia-A 4, South Africa-A 0.

#### 9th Match

* 27 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| India A 157 (37.3 overs) | v | South Africa A 159/6 (37.4 overs) |
| Deepak Chahar 38 (42) Dane Paterson 5/19 (9.3 overs) | | Pieter Malan 47 (86) Khaleel Ahmed 3/45 (7 overs) |
* South Africa A won by 4 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Rohan Pandit (Ind) and Yeshwant Barde (Ind) Player of the match: Dane Paterson (SA-A)
* South Africa A won the toss and elected to field.
* Points: South Africa-A 5, India-A 0.

#### 10th Match

* 27 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| India B 276/6 (50 overs) | v | Australia A 248/5 (40 overs) |
| Manish Pandey 117* (109) Michael Neser 3/47 (9 overs) | | Usman Khawaja 101* (93) Jalaj Saxena 2/48 (8 overs) |
* Australia A won by 5 wickets (DLS method) KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Virender Sharma (Ind) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Usman Khawaja (Aus-A)
* Australia A won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain interrupted Australia A innings at 24.1 overs with score at 132/4 and at resumption the target was set at 247 in 40 overs.
* Points: Australia-A 4, India-B 0.

#### Third place play-off

* 29 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| India A 275/7 (50 overs) | v | South Africa A 151 (37.1 overs) |
| Shreyas Iyer 67 (70) Beuran Hendricks 3/39 (10 overs) | | Senuran Muthusamy 40 (51) Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3/33 (9 overs) |
* India A won by 124 runs KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Virender Sharma (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Shreyas Iyer (Ind-A)
* South Africa A won the toss and elected to field.

#### Final

* 29 August 2018 09:00 Scorecard
| Australia A 225 (47.5 overs) | v | India B 230/1 (36.3 overs) |
| D'Arcy Short 72 (77) Shreyas Gopal 3/50 (10 overs) | | Manish Pandey 73* (54) Ashton Agar 1/59 (10 overs) |
* India B won by 9 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: KN Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Manish Pandey (Ind-B)
* India B won the toss and elected to field.

## India 'A' vs Australia 'A' First-Class series

The first-class series was initially scheduled to be held at Vijayawada but was forced to move to Bengaluru due to depression in Bay of Bengal, which had resulted in heavy showers in Andhra Pradesh.

### Squads

| India A | Australia A |
| Shreyas Iyer (c) Mayank Agarwal Ravikumar Samarth Abhimanyu Easwaran Ankit Bawne Shubman Gill Srikar Bharat Shahbaz Nadeem Kuldeep Yadav Krishnappa Gowtham Rajneesh Gurbani Navdeep Saini Ankit Rajpoot Mohammed Siraj | Mitchell Marsh (c) Alex Carey Ashton Agar Brendan Doggett Peter Handscomb Travis Head Jon Holland Usman Khawaja Michael Neser Joel Paris Kurtis Patterson Matt Renshaw Mitchell Swepson Chris Tremain |

### 1st Unofficial Test

* 2–5 September 2018 Scorecard
* Australia A won by 98 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Virender Sharma and CK Nandan
* Australia A won the toss and elected to bat.

### 2nd Unofficial Test

* 8–11 September 2018 Scorecard
* India A won by 6 wickets KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Abhijit Deshmukh (Ind)
* Australia A won the toss and elected to bat.