The ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup has long served as a platform for the young, upcoming talents to showcase their best to the world. Not only this, but the U19 CWC is also one of the most reliable talent incubators, offering the first glimpse at players in pressure scenarios, thus destined to wear the national jersey at the senior level. Over the years, several young cricketers’ success at the U19 World Cup has fast-tracked them to take the spotlight and appear in the national colours.
With players attributing match-winning temperament along with their skillsets, the list remains long of the U19 players who have gone on to play for Team India. With Indian cricket continuously investing in the youth structure, the list includes some of the key names, including Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Parthiv Patel, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and several others. Players from almost every edition have made it to the India Cricket Team, barring the 2022 and 2024. The likes of Yash Dhull and Uday Sharan haven’t yet made it big.
From Mohammad Kaif, Virat Kohli, to Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, India’s U19 alumni list has called in for some of the modern-day greats, let’s take a look below.
List of players to graduate from U19 World Cup to Team India:
- 1988: Pravin Amre, Narendra Hirwani, Nayan Mongia, Venkatapathy Raju
- 1998: Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Reetinder Sodhi, Laxmi Shukla, Amit Bhandari
- 2000: Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Reetinder Sodhi, Venugopal Rao, Ajay Ratra
- 2002: Parthiv Patel, Irfan Pathan, Stuart Binny
- 2004: Ambati Rayudu, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, R. P. Singh, VRV Singh, Robin Uthappa
- 2006: Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Piyush Chawla, Shahbaz Nadeem
- 2008: Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Manish Pandey, Siddarth Kaul, Abhinav Mukund, Saurabh Tiwary
- 2010: Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel, KL Rahul, Jaydev Unadkat, Sandeep Sharma
- 2012: Hanuma Vihari, Sandeep Sharma
- 2014: Avesh Khan, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Sarfaraz Khan
- 2016: Ishan Kishan, Rishabh Pant, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Washington Sundar
- 2018: Prithvi Shaw, Shubman Gill, Shivam Mavi, Riyan Parag, Abhishek Sharma, Arshdeep Singh
- 2020: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Ravi Bishnoi, Tilak Varma
FAQs
Under Mohammad Kaif’s captaincy in ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2000 edition India won its maiden title.
Mohammad Kaif, Virat Kohli, and Prithvi Shaw are three Indian U19 captains to have played for the national side at the international level.
India is the most successful team in ICC U19 Cricket World Cup, having won the title five times.
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