Asia Cup India’s Squad: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced a 15-member squad for the Under-19 Asia Cup 2023.
Uday Saharan, who plays for Punjab, has been given the command of this team. The tournament will be played hosted by Dubai. The tournament will start from December 8, while the final match will be played on Sunday, December 17. The Indian team is the defending champion of the Under-19 Asia Cup.
That is, before this, in the last season, India had won the title. India’s Under-19 team is the most successful team of the tournament. Under-19 Indian team has won maximum 8 trophies in its name.
This time, a 15-member team has been selected by the Junior Cricket Committee for the 2023 Asia Cup. Three traveling standby players have been included in the team. Apart from this, four reserve players of the team have also been announced, who will not travel with the team to Dubai.
India won the title by defeating Sri Lanka in the final in 2022
Let us tell you that earlier in the Asia Cup 2022 played in 2022, the Indian team had won the title by defeating Sri Lanka in the final under the captaincy of Nishant Sindhu. Team India had won the one-sided match. In the match, Sri Lanka’s Under-19 team, batting first, was all out for just 106 runs in 38 overs. Vicky Ostwal took maximum 3 wickets for India. Apart from this, Kaushal Tambe had taken 2 wickets. Whereas Ravi Kumar and Raj Bawa took 1 wicket each.
Chasing the target, the Indian team won by just 1 wicket in 21.3 overs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who came to open for the team, played an unbeaten inning of 56* runs in 67 balls with the help of 7 fours. Apart from this, Sheikh Rasheed had scored unbeaten 31* runs in 49 balls, which included 2 fours.
India’s 15-member squad for Under-19 Asia Cup 2023
Arshin Kularni, Adarsh Singh, Rudra Patel, Sachin, Priyanshu Moliya, Musheer Khan, Uday Saharan (captain), Aravelli Avnish Rao, Soumya Kumar, Murgan Abhishek, Inesh Mahajan, Dhanush Gowad, Aradhya Shukla, Namam Tiwari, Raj Limbani.
Standby Players- Prem Devakar, Ansh Gosai, Mohammad Aman.
4 reserve players who did not go with the team
Digvijay Patil, Jayant Goyat, P Vignesh, Kiran Chormale.
