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GH News July 31, 2025 11:06 AM
New Delhi: Mumbai batsman Ayush Mhatre will lead the India Under-19 team for the Australia tour. This multi-format tour will start on September 21 in Norths. The 17-member squad also includes 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi who caught everyones attention with his explosive batting in IPL 2025. India will play a total of five matches on this tour including three ODIs on September 21 24 and 26 in Norths. This will be followed by two four-day matches—the first will be in Norths from September 30 and the second in Mackay from October 7. Some players are out of the England tour Some players of the Under-19 team that recently toured England are not on the Australia tour this time. Vedant Trivedi Khilan Patel Uddhav Mohan and Aman Chauhan have been included in place of Maulyarajsingh Chavda Yudhajit Guha (on standby) Pranav Raghavendra and Mohammad Inan. Khilan Patel returns and Malhotra named vice-captain Khilan Patel who was ruled out with a right leg injury before the England tour has now recovered and returned to the team. Punjab top-order batsman Vihaan Malhotra who performed brilliantly in all formats on the England tour has been made the vice-captain for the Australia tour. Top performances on the England tour Mhatre scored the most runs in the Youth Test in England with 340 runs in four innings. India had won the ODI series 3-2 with Suryavanshi scoring the most runs with 355 runs in five innings. Kanishk Chauhan took the most wickets while fast bowler R S Ambris took six wickets in the Test. Other key players and standbys The team includes wicketkeeper-batsman Harvansh Singh Pangalia and offspinner Anmoljit Singh. Naman Pushpak and D Dipesh have also been retained. Yudhajit Guha Laxman BK Kishore Alankrit Rapol and Arnab Bugga are in the list of standby players. Last time Indias clean sweep Australia Last year in September-October India clean-swept Australia Under-19 team in both ODI and four-day series played in India. This time the team will enter the field with the intention of repeating the same performance.
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