Bengaluru boy Gautam to lead India Under-19 B team

NT Correspondent

Aneeshwar Gautam from Bengaluru will lead the India Under-19 B team in the triangular series featuring the Bangladesh Under-19 team. Matches are to be held in Kolkata from November 28 to December 7, 2021. According to KSCA, Gautam has been making runs in local cricket and he has done well in th BCCI - Under 19 Challenger’s Trophy. However, it comes as no surprise that he has been selected to lead the team. Dhanush Gowda, who’s Gautam’s teammate in the Combined City XI in the Under-19 Inter-Zonal tournament, has also been picked from Karnataka to represent the country.

India Under-19 B Squad:

Aneeshwar Gautam (Captain, Karnataka), P.M. Singh Rathore (Vice Captain, Rajasthan), Md Faiz (Vidarbha), R Vimal Kumar (TN), Ansh Gosai (Saurashtra), Uday Saharan (Punjab), K.S. Tambe & Vicky Ostwal (both Maharashtra), Aaradhya Yadav (WK, UP), Vasu Vats (UP), Dhanush Gowda (Karnataka), Aayush Singh Thakur (Chhattisgarh), Shaswat Dangwal (Uttarakhand), Shashank M. (Hyderabad), Shoun Roger (Kerala)