Prithvi Shaw to lead India colts in one-day games on England tour

Young Mumbai batsman Prithvi Shaw will be leading the India U19 team in the upcoming tour to England. He will lead the side in the five one-day fixtures on the tour. Prior to the limited overs action, the Indian U19 team will play two four-day matches as well. Haryana batsman Himanshu Rana has been named as the captain of the team in the four-day fixtures.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India released a press statement on Friday wherein they announced the squads for the tour in both formats of the game. The tour will commence on July 19 with the Indian colts playing a warm-up match which will be a two-day game. The first four-day match will be played at Chesterfield commencing on July 23. The second and the final four-day game will be played at the venue in Worcester from July 31.

Coming to the one-day fixtures, the first game will be played at Cardiff on August 7 and the second match will be played at Canterbury on August 9. Hove and Bristol will host the third and the fourth match which will take place on August 12 and August 14 respectively. The final match of the tour will be played at Taunton on August 16.

The junior selectors have done a reasonably good job in picking up slightly different names for the two formats of the game. They have taken into consideration the playing styles of different players and then drafted them into the two squads.

Squads:

India U19 Team for four-day matches:

Himanshu Rana (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Shubman Gill, Manjot Kalra, Riyan Parag Das, S. Radhakrishnan, Harvik Desai, Het Patel, Harsh Tyagi, Ashok Sandhu, Rahul Chahar, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Darshan Nalkande, Vivekanand Tiwari.

India U19 Team for one-day matches:

Prithvi Shaw (Captain), Shubman Gill, Himanshu Rana, S Radhakrishnan, Salman Khan, Abhishek Sharma, Harvik Desai, Het Patel, Anukul Roy, Shiva Singh, Rahul Chahar, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Yash Thakur, Ishan Porel.