Ayush Mhatre will lead the Indian Under-19 team on its multi-format tour of Australia, which begins on September 21.

India will play three one-day matches and two multi-day matches against the Australian U-19 side.

The team, under the leadership of Mhatre, is coming off a successful tour of England, where it won the Youth ODI series 3-2, before the two-match Test series ended in a 0-0 stalemate.

While Mhatre was the leading run-scorer in the Tests across both teams, amassing 340 runs in four innings with the help of two hundreds and a fifty, 14-year-old sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi dominated the charts in the ODI series, scoring 355 runs and registering the fastest known century in the history of Youth ODIs.

Mhatre’s deputy, Vihaan Malhotra, impressed in both formats on the tour to England, tallying 243 and 277 runs in the ODI and Test series, respectively, at a healthy average.

India U19 squad: Ayush Mhatre (c), Vihaan Malhotra (vc), Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Vedant Trivedi, Rahul Kumar, Abhigyan Kundu (WK), Harvansh Singh (WK), R S Ambrish, Kanishk Chouhan, Naman Pushpak, Henil Patel, D. Deepesh, Kishan Kumar, Anmoljeet Singh, Khilan Patel, Udhav Mohan, Aman Chauhan. 

Standby players: Yudhajit Guha, Laxman, B.K. Kishore, Alankrith Rapole, and Arnav Bugga.

India Men’s Under-19 tour of Australia

• First one-day match: September 21 (Norths)
• Second one-day match: September 24 (Norths)
• Third one-day match: September 26 (Norths)
• First multi-day match: September 30 (Norths)
• Second multi-day match: October 7 (Mackay)