Nepal U19 “A” cricket team will be taking part in the U19 Challenger Trophy, organized by BCCI (Board for Cricket Control in India) at Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium) and Vijayawada (ground to be decided) from Nov 11th – 17th, 2019. The matches in the tournament will be played with List-A status.
Nepal U19 “A” will be competing against team’s of India Red, India Yellow and India Blue. All team’s will play each other in a single round-robin group stage format. The top 2 team’s at the end of the group stage will compete in the final, while the remaining 2 team’s will play in the 3rd/4th play-off match.
Nepal U19 took part in a 4-team quadrangular series organised by BCCI in 2018 as well, in which Afghanistan U19 also took part, prior to the team’s taking part in the 2018 ACC (Asian Cricket Council) U19 Asia Cup in Bangladesh.
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Squads
Nepal U19 “A”: Rit Gautam (Captain), Lokesh Bahadur Bam, Trit Raj Das, Bishal Bikram KC, Khadak Bahadur Bohra, Abhishek Basnet, Hari Bahadur Chauhan, Arun Airee, Kushal Malla, Surya Tamang, Tilak Raj Bhandari, Sher Malla, Akash Chandra, Pratish GC, Gautam KC & Bibek Kumar Yadav
India Blue: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sai Sudarshan, Jay Gohil, Sameer Rizvi, Arjun Murhty, Dhruv Chand Jurel (Captain), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Kritagya Kumar Singh, Aman Bhadoriya, Rishabh Bansal, Purnank Tyagi, Prince Yadav, Dashrath Kumar, Aniket Reddy & Debopratim Haldar
India Red: Tilak Varma, Sagar Dahiya, Yash Dhull, Priyam Garg (Captain), Siddhesh Veer, Kruthik Krishna, Divyansh Joshi, Atharva Ankolekar, Ravi Bishnoi, Nirmal Kumar, Akash Singh, Aquib Khan, Vivek Kumar, Nehal Pajni & Harsh Jamwal
India Yellow: Divyaansh Saxena, Arjun Azad, Pradosh Rajan Paul, Shashwat Rawat, Varun Lavande, Kumar Kushagra, Sourav Dagar, Shubhang Hegde (Captain), Ravi Roshan, Vikrant Bhadoriya, CTL Rakshan, Dhanit Raut, Vidyadhar Patil, Arya Sethi & Yousuf Mujtaba
U19 Challenger Trophy Schedule
| Date | Match | Venue | Time (Local) |
| 11-Nov-19 | India Blue vs India Red (Live Score) | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 09:00AM |
| Nepal U19 “A” vs India Yellow (Live Score) | Vijaywada | 09:00AM | |
| 13-Nov-19 | India Blue vs Nepal U19 “A” (Live Score) | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 09:00AM |
| India Yellow vs India Red (Live Score) | Vijaywada | 09:00AM | |
| 15-Nov-19 | Nepal U19 “A” vs India Red (Live Score) | Vijaywada | 09:00AM |
| India Blue vs India Yellow (Live Score) | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 09:00AM | |
| 17-Nov-19 | 3rd/4th Play-off (India Yellow vs Nepal U19 “A”) (Live Score) | Vijaywada | 09:00AM |
| Final (India Blue vs India Red) (Live Score) | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 09:00AM |
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