Pavan Shah named India captain for Under-19 Asia Cup

Pavan Shah has replaced Aryan Juyal as the India Under-19 captain for the upcoming Asia Cup in Dhaka that starts from September 29. Juyal, 16, has been dropped from the squad.

Shah will also lead the India A Under-19 squad in a quadrangular series also featuring India B Under-19, Nepal and Afghanistan.

BCCI’s Junior Selection committee met in New Delhi to pick the three representative India U-19 squads for the Quadrangular One-day series to be held in Lucknow from September 12th and Asia Cup.

Vedant Murkar has been named captain of the India B U-19 squad.

India U-19 squad for Asia Cup: Pavan Shah (captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat (wicket-keeper), Yash Rathod, Ayush Badoni, Nehal Wadhera, Prab Simran Singh (wicket-keeper), Siddharth Desai, Harsh Tyagi, Ajay Dev Goud, Yatin Mangwani, Mohit Jangra, Sameer Choudhary, Rajesh Mohanty

Squads for Quadrangular series

India U-19 A: Pavan Shah (captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat (wicket-keeper), Prab Simran Singh (wicket-keeper), Yash Rathod, Ayush Badoni, Nehal Wadhera, Siddharth Desai, Harsh Tyagi, Ajay Dev Goud, Yatin Mangwani, Mohit Jangra, Sameer Choudhary, Rajesh Mohanty

India U-19 B: Vedant Murkar (captain & wicket-keeper), Thakur Tilak Verma, Qamran Iqbal, Vamsi Krishna, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Rishab Chouhan, Siddhant Rana, Sayan Kumar Biswas (wicket-keeper), Shubhang Hegde, Rizvi Sameer, Pankaj Yadav, Akash Singh, Ashok Sandhu, Aayush Singh, Nitish Reddy, Sabir Khan, Sahil Raj, Rajvardhan Hangargekar

Quadrangular series schedule

12th September: India U-19 A vs Afghanistan U-19; India U-19 B vs Nepal U-19

14th September: India U-19 A vs Nepal U-19; India U-19 B vs Afghanistan U-19

16th September: India U-19 A vs India U-19 B; Afghanistan U-19 vs Nepal U-19

18th September: Team 1 vs Team 2; Team 3 vs Team 4