Maharashtra batsman Pavan Shah has replaced Aryan Juyal as the captain of the India under-19 squad for the Asia Cup, starting at Dhaka on September 29.
Most of the players from India’s tour of Sri Lanka were retained while Juyal has been dropped. Although he is only 16, Juyal won’t be eligible to play in the next World Cup, as the BCCI policy doesn’t allow any player to play two successive colts World Cup.
Shah and Vedant Murkar will lead the India ‘A’ and ‘B’ squads in the four-nation tournament to be played in Lucknow from Sept. 12 to 18. Nepal and Afghanistan are the other teams.
The teams:
U-19 squad for Asia Cup: Pavan Shah (Capt.), Devdutt Padikkal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat (wk), Yash Rathod, Ayush Badoni, Nehal Wadhera, Prab Simran Singh (wk), Siddharth Desai, Harsh Tyagi, Ajay Dev Goud, Yatin Mangwani, Mohit Jangra, Sameer Choudhary, and Rajesh Mohanty.
For Quadrangular: India u-19 ‘A’: Shah (Capt.), Padikkal, Jaiswal, Rawat, Prab Simran Singh (wk), Rathod, Badoni, Wadhera, Desai, Tyagi, Goud, Mangwani, Jangra, Choudhary, and Mohanty.
India u-19 ‘B’: Vedant Murkar (capt. & wk), Thakur Tilak Verma, Qamran Iqbal, Vamsi Krishna, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Rishab Chouhan, Siddhant Rana, Sayan Biswas (wk), Shubhang Hegde, Sameer Rizvi, Pankaj Yadav, Akash Singh, Ashok Sandhu, Aayush Singh, Nitish Reddy, Sabir Khan, Sahil Raj, and Rajvardhan Hangargekar.
