Indian Under-19 probables for first `Test'

Delhi lad Gautam Gambhir and local boy Vinayak Mane are among the fourteen under-19 boys called for the selection of the Indian team for the three `Test' matches against the touring England under-19 team at the Wankhede Stadium on January 7, 2001.

Apart from Gambhir and Mane, the junior selection committee has also called five boys from Haryana, two from Vidarbha, one each from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Baroda and Saurashtra, a BCCI release said in Mumbai on Thursday.

None of the these boys are in the under-19 Rest of India team which will play a three-day match against the visitors at the MIG Club in Mumbai from January 4-6. The junior selection committee, under the chairmanship of Rajinder Goel, will watch the boys at the selection trials, apart from watching the Rest v. England under-19 tie, before naming the Indian under-19 team for the three `Test' matches.

The first `Test' will be held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai from January 9-12, followed by the second at Chennai (January 20-23) and the third and final `Test' at Hyderabad from January 27-30.

The following is the list released by BCCI: Maninder Bisla, Ishan Ganda, Ajay Ratra, Amit Misra and Nitin Agarwal (all Haryana), Alind Naidu and Amit Deshpande (both Vidarbha), Gautam Gambhir (Delhi), Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan (TN), Deepak Chougle (Karnataka), Vinayak Mane (Mumbai), Sidharth Trivedi (Gujarat), H Bachani (Baroda) and Jaydev Shah (Saurashtra).