Anukul Roy Added To India-A Squad: There has been a big change in the India A squad for the Sri Lanka tri-series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) gave information about this change on Thursday (21 May). Uncapped all-rounder Anukul Royal has got a place in the squad of Men in Blue, who is playing for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2026.

It was told in the BCCI release that Anukul has been included in place of spin bowling all-rounder Harsh Dubey. Harsh has been selected in the senior team India for the one-off Test and ODI series against Afghanistan.

Let us tell you that the tri-series to be held in Sri Lanka and the Test and ODI series between India and Afghanistan will clash with each other, due to which any player can participate in only one series.

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Anukul Roy added to India A squad for the upcoming tri-series in Sri Lanka.

He replaces Harsh Dubey, who has received his maiden call-up to #TeamIndia‘s Test and ODI squads.

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— BCCI (@BCCI) May 21, 2026

tri series date

The tri-series to be played between India-A, Sri Lanka-A and Afghanistan-A will be from 09 to 21 June. This tri series will take place in Sri Lanka.

india vs afghanistan series

A Test and 3-match ODI series between India and Afghanistan will be played between June 06 and 20. This series will take place on Indian soil.

India’s updated squad for tri-series

Tilak Verma (captain), Priyansh Arya, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Riyan Parag (vice-captain), Ayush Badoni, Nishant Sindhu, Suryansh Shedge, Prabhsimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Kumar Kushagra (wicketkeeper), Vipraj Nigam, Yash Thakur, Yudhveer Singh, Anshul Kamboj, Arshad Khan, Anukul Roy.

Anukul Roy’s performance in the current IPL season

Have played 13 matches in the friendly season. While bowling in 11 innings of these matches, Anukul has taken 8 wickets in his bag, in which the best figure was 2/31. While batting, he has scored 43 runs in 6 innings, in which the high score was 29* runs.

troi series schedule

First match (09 June): India A vs Sri Lanka A

Second match (11 June): India A vs Afghanistan A

Third match (13 June): Afghanistan-A vs Sri Lanka-A

Fourth match (15 June): India A vs Sri Lanka A

Fifth match (17 June): India A vs Afghanistan A

Sixth match (19 June): Afghanistan-A vs Sri Lanka-A

Final (21 June): Final.

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Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals Highlights: Kolkata Knight Riders have finally registered their first win of IPL 2026. They have defeated Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets at Eden Gardens. The unbeaten 76-run partnership between Rinku Singh and Anukul Roy opened the account of KKR’s victory. For Rajasthan Royals, this won match was equivalent to losing, because RR bowlers had dropped 6 wickets of KKR even before the score of 100. After that, the Rajasthan bowlers were seen making waves in front of the game shown by Rinku and Anukul.

In this match played at Eden Gardens, Rajasthan Royals, batting first, scored 155 runs. In reply, Kolkata lost 6 wickets at the score of 85. But the strong and intelligent play of Rinku Singh and Anukul Roy gave Kolkata a thrilling victory in the last over.

KKR won the lost game, account of victory opened

Kolkata Knight Riders, who came to chase the target of 156 runs, had a very bad start. By the score of 5 runs, two wickets had fallen. Cameron Green was stumped, who scored 27 runs and captain Ajinkya Rahane could not even open the account. Within no time, Kolkata had lost 6 wickets by the time the score reached 85. At that time KKR’s winning percentage was only 16.

When the chances of victory were 16 percent, Rinku Singh and Anukul Roy took the responsibility. Both of them took the innings forward in a sensible manner. On one end Anukul stood firm, on the other side Rinku Singh kept hitting big shots. Rinku played a match-winning inning of 53 runs in 34 balls, while Anukul returned unbeaten after scoring 29 runs.

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21 runs had to be scored in 2 overs

The match seemed stuck till the 18th over. Kolkata had to score 21 runs to win in the last 2 overs, but Rinku Singh was determined to give KKR its first win of the season. In the 19th over, Anukul hit Joffra Archer for a tremendous six. 12 runs came in this over, after which Kolkata had to score 9 runs in the last over. Earlier, Brijesh Sharma, who bowled tightly in the 18th over, could not defend 9 runs in the last over.

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