Samit Dravid Can’t Play U19 World Cup For India: Samit Dravid, son of former Indian legend Rahul Dravid, has been selected in the 15-member Under-19 Indian team for the one-day and four-day series against Australia.

Samit is continuously proving his mettle in domestic cricket. However, even after being selected in Team India, Samit Dravid will not be able to represent India in the Under-19 World Cup 2026. Let us tell you the reason behind this.

Samit Dravid will be 20 years old at the time of Under-19 World Cup 2026

Samit Dravid will not be able to play in the Under-19 World Cup 2026 because he will be more than 20 years old by then. Samit was born on November 10, 2005 and is just two months away from his 19th birthday. Let us tell you, the same thing happened with his father Rahul Dravid. Despite being selected in the Under-19 series against New Zealand in 1992, he could not participate in the Under-19 World Cup 1998.

Samit is playing for Mysore Warriors in Maharaj Trophy

Samit Dravid is part of the Mysore Warriors in the Maharaj Trophy KSCA T20 tournament. He has also been a part of the Karnataka Under-19 team that won the Cooch Behar Trophy in the 2023-24 season. He scored 362 runs in the tournament, and also took 16 wickets. Samit also represented the Karnataka State Cricket Association XI in a three-day match against Lancashire.

Three ODI matches will be played between Australia-19 and India Under-19 team in Puducherry and two four-day matches will be played in Chennai. Mohammad Aman will lead Team India in the ODI series. Whereas, Soham Patwardhan will captain the four-day matches.

Indian Under-19 Squad for the series against Australia-19

Indian Under-19 team for ODI series– Rudra Patel, Sahil Parikh, Kartikey KP, Mohammad Aman (captain), Kiran Chormale, Abhigyan Kundu (wicketkeeper), Harvansh Singh Pangalia (wicketkeeper), Samit Dravid, Yudhishth Guha, Samarth N, Nikhil Kumar, Chetan Sharma, Hardik Raj, Rohit Raj Awat, Mohammad Enan

Indian Under-19 team for four-day series- Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Nitya Pandya, Vihan Malhotra (vice-captain), Soham Patwardhan (captain), Kartikey KP, Samit Dravid, Abhigyan Kundu (wicketkeeper), Harvansh Singh Paglia (wicketkeeper), Chetan Sharma, Samarth N, Aditya Rawat, Nikhil Kumar, Anmoljit Singh, Aditya Singh, Mohammad Enan