2020 Under 19 World Cup: 3 Indian players to watch out for

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The U19 World Cup is always a tournament which is much anticipated by cricket fans because it gives a glimpse of the future stars. Many cricketers, who once featured for India in U19 World Cup, went on to have a very illustrious career at the senior level.

There is no better example of that than the current Indian skipper Virat Kohli who first came into the limelight in the U19 World Cup in 2008 and broke into the Indian senior squad later that year. Kohli hasn’t looked back ever since and is on his way to breaking most of the existing batting records in the game.

Yuvraj Singh is another name who comes to mind when we talk about the U19 World Cup. Not only has the Punjab left-hander won the U19 World Cup for India, he thereafter won the T20I World Cup and the ODI World Cup with the senior team as well.

The next U19 World Cup is only a couple of weeks away and the Indian squad that has been announced for the tournament has some exciting players again who are very much capable of making it big in world cricket at some stage.

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Here are the 3 Indian players to watch out for in 2020 U19 World Cup

#1 Priyam Garg

Priyam Garg

Priyam Garg has come through the ranks and he has been a heavy run-scorer at every age group he has played so far. He was 17 years of age when the Indian squad for the 2018 U19 World Cup was announced and he was in the reckoning to make that squad as well. However, he couldn’t make it eventually, much to his disappointment.

Garg has not only got himself into the Indian squad for the 2020 U19 World Cup, but he has also shown such tremendous composure at the junior level that he has been given the captaincy of the side as well.

The stylish right-hander, who is also a handy medium pacer, has scored 548 runs in the 18 youth ODIs he has played for India, averaging close to 40. Garg also averages more than 60 with the bat in first-class cricket for Uttar Pradesh.

#2 Yashasvi Jaiswal

Yashasvi Jaiswal

Yashasvi Jaiswal has already been seen as a prospect for the Indian senior team. He was the only player in the Vijay Hazare Trophy earlier this season whose strike rate and average, both were over 100 and scored more than 550 runs in the List A tournament with a double-hundred.

The left-hander, who is also a part-time leg spinner, hits the ball hard and has got a big range of shots. He is very strong if any width is provided outside the off-stump and equally efficient in picking the fast bowlers off his legs as well.

Jaiswal has played 20 youth ODIs for India so far and has scored 986 runs at an average of 61.62. He has scored 2 hundreds and 8 fifties. The 17-year old has also taken 8 wickets at an average of 16.25.

Jaiswal recently earned an IPL contract as Rajasthan Royals bought him at a price of INR 2.40 Crore in the IPL 2020 auction.

#3 Divyansh Joshi

Divyansh Joshi

While Garg and Jaiswal are quite familiar to the Indian fans because of their exploits at the first-class level, Joshi is someone whom not many people would have heard about. The 18-year old will become the first player from Mizoram to play in the U19 World Cup for India.

While Joshi learned all his cricket in Delhi and featured for Uttar Pradesh at the U14 and U16 level, he had to turn to North-East India to play U19 cricket because he couldn’t find a place in the U19 team of UP.

The Mizoram selectors saw something in him and signed him as a “professional” player and he repaid their faith with some wonderful performances in the Vinoo Mankad Trophy.

Joshi’s performances caught the eyes of the Indian selectors and he made it to the U19 World Cup squad of India. The all-rounder has been coached by Tarak Sinha who has also been the coach of Virat Kohli.