Rahul Dravid’s son Samit included in India U-19 squad

Samit Dravid, son of legendary India cricketer and then coach Rahul Dravid, has been selected in India’s U-19 squad for the first time, for the multi-format home series against Australia U-19 in September and October.

Samit recently played his first senior men’s T20 tournament - the Maharaja T20 Trophy - in Karnataka, where he is part of the Mysuru Warriors squad.

Occupying a place in the middle-order, Dravid scored 82 runs at a strike rate of 114 in seven innings but was not called up to bowl his medium pace.

Earlier in the year, Dravid, 18, played a significant role in Karnataka winning the Cooch Behar Trophy, a four-day format tournament for the U-19 cricketers. He scored 362 runs and took 16 wickets in eight matches, including two scalps in the final against Mumbai.

Mohamed Amaan, a middle-order batter from Uttar Pradesh, has been named skipper of the 50-over squad, while Madhya Pradesh’s Soham Patwardhan will lead in the four-day matches.

India U-19 will play three 50-over games against Australia U-19 in Puducherry on September 21, 23 and 26, followed by two four-day games in Chennai starting on September 30 and October 7.

India U-19 50-over squad:

Rudra Patel (vc)(GCA), Sahil Parakh (MAHCA), Kartikeya KP (KSCA), Mohamed Amaan (capt) (UPCA), Kiran Chormale (MAHCA), Abhigyan Kundu (wk) (MCA), Harvansh Singh Pangalia (wk) (SCA), Samit Dravid (KSCA), Yudhajit Guha (CAB), Samarth N (KSCA), Nikhil Kumar (UTCA), Chetan Sharma (RCA), Hardik Raj (KSCA), Rohit Rajawat (MPCA), Mohammed Enaan (KCA)

India U-19 four-day squad:

Vaibhav Suryavanshi (Bihar CA), Nitya Pandya (BCA), Vihan Malhotra (vc) (PCA), Soham Patwardhan (capt) (MPCA), Kartikeya KP (KSCA), Samit Dravid (KSCA), Abhigyan Kundu (wk) (MCA), Harvansh Singh Pangalia (wk) (SCA), Chetan Sharma (RCA), Samarth N (KSCA), Aditya Rawat (CAU), Nikhil Kumar (UTCA), Anmoljeet Singh (PCA), Aditya Singh (UPCA), Mohammed Enaan (KCA)