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Delhi’s Virat Kohli will lead a 16-member Indian under- 19 squad to South Africa to play a triangular limited over series in January, 2008, the cricket Board announced today.
Saurashtra’s Ravinder Jadeja would be the vice-captain of the team which was chosen here after a meeting of the BCCI’s junior selection committee that was headed by Sanjeev Sharma.
The team would play a tri-series also featuring hosts South Africa and Bangladesh in addition to two three-day ties and will leave on December 30.
The junior selection panel meeting convened by BCCI joint secretary M P Pandove also picked 30 probables for the under 19 World Cup in Malaysia in February.
The squad to SA
• Virat Kohli (Del, capt), Ravinder Jadeja (Sau, vice-capt), Abhinav Mukund (TN), Tanmay Srivastava (UP), Saurabh Tiwari (Jhar), Manish Pandey (Kar), Taruwar Kohli (Pun), Sreevats Goswami (Ben), Siva Kumar Duvarapu (Andh), Amanpreet Singh (Pun), Pradeep Sangwan (Del), Mohd Arif (Raj), Iqbal Abdulla (Mum), G V S Prasad (Andhra), Harshad Khadiwale (Mah) and Appanna Prabhu Kotrangada (Kar); Stand-byes: Ajigesh Argal (Bar), Perry Goel (Pun), D Prabhu Kiran (Andh) and N Einstein (TN)
World Cup probables
• Mukund, Khadiwale, Manish Sharma, Rohan Banajee, V Kohli, Pandey, T Kohli, Prabhu Kiran, Einstein, S Tiwari, Manprit Juneja, A Tiwari, Srivastava, Goswami, Rubin Dalwadi, P Goel, Amanpreet, Sangwan, Arif, Dhawal Kulkarni, Argal, Siddharth Kaul, Duvarapu, Jadeja, Sumit Khatri, Yogesh Nagar, G V S Prasad, Kotrangada, Abdulla and Swapnil Singh
