Kolkata Knight Riders’ Anukul Roy has been added to the India A squad for the upcoming tri-series in Sri Lanka after Harsh Dubey was called up to India’s Test and ODI squads for the upcoming home series against Afghanistan.
The tri-series will feature Sri Lanka A, India A and Afghanistan A, and will be played in Dambulla from June 9 to June 21, 2026.
Anukul had first shot into the limelight by emerging as the joint-highest wicket-taker in India’s victorious ICC Men’s U19 World Cup campaign in 2018, where he scalped 14 wickets with his left-arm spin. Having made his IPL debut in 2019, one year after those U19 World Cup heroics, Anukul has featured in 24 IPL games so far over his career. He had started his IPL career with the Mumbai Indians who secured him in the auction with a price tag of Rs 20 lakh. But opportunities to play were rare: in fact, he played in just one game over four seasons at the start.
This season for Kolkata Knight Riders, Anukul has managed to score 43 runs from six innings and pick eight wickets from 11 innings.
He gave a demonstration of the impact he can have before the IPL season began, for the Jharkhand team in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He was the third-highest run-scorer in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, thanks to 303 runs in 10 innings at an average of 60.60 and a strike rate of 160.31. Many of his match-winning cameos for Jharkhand helped them seal the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title.
Updated India A squad for tri-series: Tilak Varma (Captain), Priyansh Arya, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Riyan Parag (Vice-Captain), Ayush Badoni, Nishant Sindhu, Suryansh Shedge, Prabhsimran Singh (WK), Kumar Kushagra (WK), Vipraj Nigam, Yash Thakur, Yudhvir Singh, Anshul Kamboj, Arshad Khan, Anukul Roy.
