India, June 6 -- On a day when two top cricketers from Uttar Pradesh, Rinku Singh and Kuldeep Yadav, were dropped from India's T20I squad for the Ireland and England series as well as the September-October Asian Games in Japan, Lucknow leg-spinner and former India U19 World Cupper Zeeshan Ansari made it to the India A side for the multi-day series in Sri Lanka.

Uttar Pradesh wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel will lead the 15-member A team in the two four-day matches, the first of which begins on June 25. Other squad members are: Devdutt Padikkal, Sai Sudharsan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ayush Pandey, Aman Mokhade, Shaik Rasheed, N Jagadeesan (wk), Harsh Dubey, Auqib Nabi, Saransh Jain, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Yash Thakur and Anshul Kamboj.

Ansari, who didn't...