{"id":6625,"date":"2012-05-26T14:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2012-05-26T14:20:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:20:34","slug":"pravinder-awana-gets-india-a-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6625","title":{"rendered":"Pravinder Awana gets India A call up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/parwinder-awana.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Parwinder Awana\" width=\"250\" height=\"157\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Lady luck finally shone on Parwinder Awana, who played for Kings XI Punjab, as the Delhi fast bowler Saturday was selected in the India A squad for the West Indies tour as a replacement for injured Mumbai Indians left-arm pacer Rudra Pratap Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Awana was dejected after he was ignored when the squad was announced despite being the third highest Indian wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with 17 wickets. Only Umesh Yadav and Vinay Kumar were ahead of him among the best Indian bowlers with 19 wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>Awana, however, came into the squad after Rudra Pratap Singh was ruled out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Rudra Pratap) has been advised a week&#8217;s rest, after which he will be reporting to the NCA (National Cricket Academy) for further injury management. The All-India Selection Committee has picked Parvinder Awana as his replacement in the India A squad for the West Indies,&#8221; a cricket board release said.<\/p>\n<p>An elated Awana said that despite being rejected early he never stopped believing in himself. Awana was in a good form last season bagging 57 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am used to rejections. But I have never stopped believing in my abilities,&#8221; said Awana, who has 110 first-class wickets from 32 matches in his career.<\/p>\n<p>India A will play three four-day matches, three one-day matches and two Twenty20s on the tour, which begins in Barbados June 2. <strong>(IANS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/parwinder-awana.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Parwinder Awana\" width=\"250\" height=\"157\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Lady luck finally shone on Parwinder Awana, who played for Kings XI Punjab, as the Delhi fast bowler Saturday was selected in the India A squad for the West Indies tour as a replacement for injured Mumbai Indians left-arm pacer Rudra Pratap Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Awana was dejected after he was ignored when the squad was announced despite being the third highest Indian wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with 17 wickets. Only Umesh Yadav and Vinay Kumar were ahead of him among the best Indian bowlers with 19 wickets each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[341,3893],"class_list":["post-6625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cricket-cricket","tag-kings-xi-punjab","tag-parwinder-awana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pravinder Awana gets India A call up - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6625\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pravinder Awana gets India A call up - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Lady luck finally shone on Parwinder Awana, who played for Kings XI Punjab, as the Delhi fast bowler Saturday was selected in the India A squad for the West Indies tour as a replacement for injured Mumbai Indians left-arm pacer Rudra Pratap Singh.Awana was dejected after he was ignored when the squad was announced despite being the third highest Indian wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with 17 wickets. 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