Mumbai: Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla of Uttar Pradesh would lead a 16-member India under-19 squad to New Zealand and Malaysia later this month.

The squad, made up of six batsmen, four mediumpacers, two spinners, two allrounders and two wicketkeepers, will leave for New Zealand, where they will play three four-day youth Tests and three youth Internationals against the hosts, on January 12.

THE SQUAD

Piyush Chawla (UP, captain), B. Sumanth (Andhra), Tanmay Srivastava (UP), Ravi Teja (Hyderabad), Ajinkya Rahane (Mumbai), Gaurav Chabra, Ishant Sharma (both Delhi), Sumeet Sharma (Punjab), K P Appanna (Karnataka), Vijaykumar YoMahesh (TN), Omkar Gurav (Wicketkeeper, Mumbai), Sarabjeet Singh (Wicketkeeper, Punjab), Dhaval Kulkarni (Mumbai), Virat Kohli (Delhi), Abu Nacheem (Assam) And Ravindra Jadeja (Saurashtra). (PTI)