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Chawla to lead colts on Pakistan tour

August 13, 2006 23:03 IST

The National selection committee (juniors) named a 15-member squad, led by Uttar Pradesh's Piyush Chawla, for the Under-19 cricket team's Pakistan tour next month.

The squad for the (four-day) Test series is: Chawla, Cheteshwar Pujara (vice-captain; Saurashtra), Parvez Aziz (Assam), Tanmay Srivastav (Uttar Pradesh), Virat Kohli (Delhi), Ravindra Jadeja (Saurashtra), Sumit Sharma (Punjab), Omkar Gaurav (Mumbai), Uday Kaul (Punjab), Shahbaz Nadeem (Jharkhand), Sunil Raju (Karnataka), V YO Mahesh (Tamil Nadu),

Abu Nachim (Assam), Ishant Sharma (Delhi) and Ishwar Choudhary (Gujarat).

Three players have been included for one-dayers, who will replace an equal number from the above list, to be decided later.

They are: Sunny Sohal (Punjab), B Sumanth (Andhra) and Sourabh Bandekar (Goa).

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