For the sixth year running, three of India’s bright young cricketers will visit Australia for a six-week stay as part of the annual Border-Gavaskar scholarship.The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has selected medium pacers Vikram Rajvir Singh (Punjab) and Rudra Pratap Singh (UP) and opening batsman Cheteshwar Pujara (Saurashtra) for the scholarship this year. They will train for six weeks at the Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence (CBCE) in Australia (June 20-July 31) .Cheteshwar created history with an unbeaten 306 in a West Zone under-14 tournament game against Baroda in 2001. In February this year, the Saurashtra youngster scored 211 against England under-19 team at Jamshedpur. Rudra Pratap Singh, an 18-year-old left-arm pacer from UP had drawn rave reviews from Sourav Ganguly during the national probables camp in Bangalore where he was a special invitee. The 6-ft tall bowler from Rae Bareilley had a stint at the MRF Pace Foundation and had attended u-19 and u-21 national camps. He also toured Sri Lanka with the Indian u-17 team.Twenty-year-old Vikram Rajvir Singh took 28 wickets in five Ranji Trophy matches this season which included a 10-wicket haul. Punjab coach Intikhab Alam reckons Vikram to be ‘‘the fastest’’ in the country.Of the 15 players who had been to Australia under the scholarship scheme earlier, Kaif (7 Tests, 87 ODIs), Sriram (8 ODIs), Shiv Sundar Das (23 Tests, 4 ODIs), Parthiv Patel (19 Tests, 14 ODIs), L Balaji (8 Tests, 28 ODIs) and Gambhir (8 Tests, 5 ODIs) have already represented the country at the highest level.The roll of honour2000: Mohammad Kaif, Sridharan Sriram, Shiv Sundar Das.2001: Deepak Chougule, Vinayak Mane, Parthiv Patel.2002: Lakshmipathy Balaji, Gautam Gambhir, Thilak Naidu.2003: Raiphi Vincent Gomez, Udit Brijesh Patel, Siddharth Trivedi.2004: Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Y Venugopala Rao.
