Talented Hyderabad batsman Ambati Rayudu will lead the India Under-19 squad in the first two 'Tests' against the visiting English side later this month.

Former India paceman Venkatesh Prasad had been named coach of the 14-member team.

Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwari will be Rayudu's deputy while Baroda's Pinal Shah will keep wickets.

The series commences on January 22 with the first four-day Test in Bangalore.

Board of Control for Cricket in India joint-secretary and juniors' selection committee convenor Gautam Dasgupta said the team for the third Test (at Jamshedpur) and the one-dayers would be announced during the second Test in Kolkata.

The squad: Ambati Rayudu (capt, Hyderabad), Manoj Tiwari (vice-capt, Bengal), Pinal Shah (wk, Baroda), Robin Uthappa and Gaurav Dhiman (Karnataka), Faiz Fazal (Vidharba), Mayank Tehlan, Aditya Jain, Shikhar Dhawan (Delhi), Piyush Chawla [Images], Avinash Yadav (UP), Hardevender Singh (Punjab), Abid Nabi (Jammu and Kashmir [Images]), Harvinder Singh (Mumbai).

Coach: Venkatesh Prasad; Physio: Dr Vaibhav Daga.

All five juniors selectors -- Pravin Amre (West zone), Anuraj Thakur (North), K Jayaraman (South), Sanjeeva Rao (Central) and Kamal Das (East) -- along with Prasad and chairman of the Talent Research Development Officers attended the meeting, Dasgupta informed.