India play Japan, the Asian Games and West Indies; India A face Australia A; and Rest of India play Irani Cup against J&K

Ravindra Jadeja is back in the ODI fold, having last played a 50-over international in January

Nitish Kumar Reddy, who was in the Asian Games squad, has been withdrawn and will now feature in the ODI series against West Indies

The player auction will be held in Kochi on October 28

Despite having Farooqi in the XI, Afghanistan did not use him with the new ball. Could Naveen's return add heft to their seam attack?

Varun, Bumrah, Arshdeep and Axar also made gains in the T20I bowling rankings

Samson scored 57, and Abhishek hit 39 to set up the win in just 14.5 overs after Reddy's three wickets

Niki Prasad's unbeaten 54 and two wickets went in vain for India A

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi remains on the bench for the second T20I running. Afghanistan went in unchanged

The former allrounder asked India to take a leaf out of their T20 World Cup wins and build a consistent squad in the lead up to the 50-over World Cup

India spinner is still expected to be part of the squad travelling to the Asian Games later this month

There is no reason for India to change their XI for the second game, but they do have Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on the bench

"I'm glad that people are putting their hands up for the places," Amol Muzumdar says after G Kamalini played a momentum-shifting cameo in the Asia Cup final

Sri Lanka were bowled out for 111 in chase of 184, with Charani and Deepti sharing seven wickets between them

Omarzai's half-century took Afghanistan to 157 but it proved insufficient with India chasing down the target in 13.4 overs

Bumrah and Varun return to join Arshdeep as specialist bowlers in the bowling attack

Shreyas Iyer will have to make the unenviable selection of two openers out of Sanju Samson, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Abhishek Sharma

While there isn't much to separate the teams when it comes to their spin bowling, India have been the better all-round side, and go into the final as the favourites

"It takes a lot of hard work to go through the domestic grind," Devdutt Padikkal says ahead of the India A vs Australia A, where he will lead the four-day side