Road to Kuala Lumpur 2008!!

[Tigers_eye]

This thread would track all the U-19 teams, their players ("superstars") and their results who will be competing to win it all. I have gone back some years just for fun.

September 2006
India U-19 vs Pakistan U-19
Test (2-0) and ODI Series whitewashed by India.
Test I - win by 271 runs
Test II - win by innings and 240 runs.
4 Onedays: 4-0 India.

April 2007
Australia U-19 hosting Pakistan U-19
Australia winning the 5 Oneday series by 3-2.

July 2007
European Championship 2007
Ireland wins a berth to the WC 2008 by beating Scotland, Holland and Denmark.

July 2007
Sri Lanka U-19 hosting Bangladesh U-19
Test I - Drawn
Test II - SL wins by six wickets.
SL winnings test series 1-0.

July 2007
U-19 Tri-series SL (host), BD and India
India beat SL, BD twice and wins the finals against BD convincingly. (A heavy beat down by India: margin of victory 159 runs, 97 runs, 161 runs, 129 runs D\L method, 129 runs) Aauuch!! It hurts!!
Between BD and SL, 1st match had no result the second one Bd beat SL by 43 runs.

August 2007
SL hosting India (India U-19 wins 1-0 in the 2 test series)
Test I - India wins 182 runs. Ind 301, 223/7 dec. SL 247, 95.
Test II - Drawn. India 491/3 dec and 245/6. SL 387.

July 2007
East Asia Pacific U-19 Championship 2007
Papua New Guinea wins it beating Vanautu, Japan and Fiji.

August 2007
Pakistan U-19 at England (test series drawn 1-1)
Test I - England wins by an innings and 58 runs. Eng U-19 532, Pak U-19 214, 260 f/o.
Test II - Pakistan U-19 wins by 3 wickets. Eng U-19 332 and 228, Pak U-19 219 and 342/7.
Pakistan U-19 beat England U-19 in a 5 Oneday series with the margin of 3-1.

August 2007
African U-19 Championship 2007
Kenya winning the championship by beating Namibia, Zambia and Ghana. I am not sure what happened here but Namibia is representating Africa (not test nations in the U-19 WC).

August 2007
ICC Americas U-19 tournament 2007
Bermuda becomes the chosen one. They beat Canada, Cayman, Argentina and Bahamas.

September 2007
Australia U-19 at Malaysia
Winning 2-0 big ones. 183 runs and 10 wkts.

October 2007
Aus U-19 at Pakistan
Pakistan U-19 whitewashes Australia U-19. None of them were close.
7 wkts, 9 wkts, 30 runs, 5 wkts, 9 wkts.

November 2007
BD U-19 won a series against Malaysia U-19 3-1.
November 2007
BD U-19 at Pakistan
Test - Drawn
Onedays BD U-19 won 3-2. Winnings after falling behind 0-2.

Tri-series at South Africa Dec 2007 (SA U-19, Bd U-19 and India U-19)
India wins the tourney without losing. Won one match against BD by 1 run D\L method. Grrrrr!!!
Bd loses miserably in the finals.

January 2008
India U-19 at SA
Test I - India won.
Test II - Draw.

Tri-series Jaunary 2008
SL U-19 (host), England U-19, Pakistan U-19
In the warmup match Eng U-19 beat SL U-19. In the tournament they also beat Pak U-19. However, SL U-19 beat England 2 times and lost to Pak U-19 2 times, Pak U-19 crushed Eng U-19 in the other match group match. In the final Pak U-19 out gunned SL U-19 from the start. No contest. Pak U-19 wins the tournament.

Pre WC warmup matches January 2008
Nepal U-19 visited BD and played 3 matches in BKSP grounds. BD U-19 won 3-0.
WI U-19 visited BD. Match 1 wash out. Match 2 WI won. Match 3 and 4 Bd won. Series win for BD U-19 2-1.

Warmup matches at malaysia:
Day-1
BD U-19 beat Malaysia U-19 by 165 runs.
Ind U-19 beat NZ U-19 by 6 runs.
Eng U-19 beat Pak U-19 by 4 wickets.
Ireland beat Papua New Guinea.

Day 2:
Australia crushed Zimbabwe. Not much practice for Australia.
Zim 57 all out 28.3 overs. (15 extra highest contributor) Smith 8-1-21-5 Bad man. Got the entire middle order by himself.
Aus 60/0 - Huges 40*(31), Sarna 12*(17) 7.2 overs.
Nepal flexed their muscle against Bermuda.
256/8 in 50 overs. Khadka 63 (82)
Bermuda 68 all out 24.1 overs. (17 extra is the highest contributor) All five bowlers got wickets.
Namibia had a mismatch against SA.
Namibia 106 all out 30.2 overs Silver 28 (59), Englebrecht 26 (35), Extra 22.
SA 107/3 in 18 overs. Openers went back retired with 34 and 50 and let others practice a little.
WI beat SL by 4 wickets.
SL 174 allout 47.5 overs. WI 177/6 in 40.4 overs.

Day 3:
Bangladesh U19 Vs Pakistan U19
Bangladesh U19 203 Over - 48.5 (Md. Mithun 75, Mahmudul Hasan 27, Ashiqul 23; Raza 3/27, Amir 2/33)
Pakistan U19 204/5 Over - 43.2 (Shahzad 79, Akmat 63; Sohrawardi 2/37)
2nd warm-up match of ICC U19 CWC 2008 (13 Feb. 08); Toss - Pak U19; Result - Pak U19 won by 5 wickets
England tastes the real curry. Ind wins by 6 wickets.
England 219/8 Godleman 31, Redfern 74, Brown 40. India 225/4. was 7 for 3 at one stage. so basically 218/1 Tiwary 98*, Pandey 42*, Sivastava 57. Finn got 3 wickets. Finn is 6' 8" tall.
NZ hammered Ireland.
314/8 in 50 overs. Worker 98, Southee 47. Ireland 133 allout, Beard 36/6.
Malaysia wins against PPN.
201. Faisal 63. PPN 144.

Day 4:
WI beat Aus by 5 wkts.
Aus 159/10 in 48.2 overs Sarna 32. Brooks 25/5 in 9.1 overs. Permaul 18/2 in 7 overs.
WI 160/5 in 35.4 overs Powell 51, Creary 45*. JS Smith 30/2 in 6 overs.
SL beat SA by 23 runs.
SL 224/10 in 48.5 overs. Chandimal 50, Thirimanne 47, 5 runouts?? Adams 27/2, Engelbrecht 43/2.
SA 201/10. Four batsmen between 39 and 33 non could capitalize the starts. Bowling for SL was a team effort.
Zim beat Nepal by 3 wkts.
Nepal 203/8 in 50 overs. Malla 85(83), (C) P Khadka 24, (C) Masvaure 32/3
Zim 206/7 in 48.3 overs. Chimbambo 49*, (C) Masvaure 33. (C) P Khadka 34/4 in 9.3 overs.
Namibia 224/10 in 47.3 overs. Silver 47, Van der westhuizen 44, Jones 31/4.
Bermuda 122/10 in 37.4 overs. Jones 30. one runout and 6 players got a wicket at least.
If one can posts the squads announced for each teams and point the stars of those teams I would really appreciate that. Thanks in advance.

[Rabz]

Very good post TE.
this would be a good way to keep track of them till the world cup starts.

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Rabz
Very good post TE.
this would be a good way to keep track of them till the world cup starts.

Thanks Syd.

By the way, I missed one.

November 2007
BD U-19 hosted SL U-19 recently in a 5 oneday match series.
BD won the series 3-2.

[Tigers_eye]

SQUAD
Suharwardi Shuvo (captain), Dollar Mahmud, Marshall Ayub, Shuvashish Roy, Rubel Hossain, Golam Kibriya, Rony Talukdar, Mahmudul Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Mohammad Shakil, Nadimuddin Mintu, Mohammad Mithun, Saikat Ali, Amit Majumder and Ashiqul Islam.

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=19409

Go Tigers!! Finish the job your previous groups had started.

[Tigers_eye]

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/u19w...ry/330898.html

Virat Kohli, the Delhi middle-order batsman, has been named captain of the India Under-19 squad for the World Cup in Malaysia next month with the former captain Tanmay Srivistava overlooked. Dav Whatmore, the former Sri Lanka coach and current director of operations at the National Cricket Academy, will coach the party.

India squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Abhinav Mukund, Shreevats Goswami, Tanmay Srivastava, Manish Pandey, Taruvar Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Saurav Tiwary, D Shivkumar, Pradeep Sangwan, Siddarth Kaul, Ajitesh Argal, Napoleon Einstein, Perry Goyal, Iqbal Abdulla.

[akabir77]

YES T_E BD played with Malaysia in recent time and lost 1 and won 3 i think. remember all that hoopla after losing that one...

[Tigers_eye]

Squad: Corey Anderson, Nicholas Beard, Harry Boam, Trent Boult, Michael Bracewell, Tamati Clarke, Fraser Colson, Michael Guptill-Bunce, Greg Morgan, Jeet Raval, Hamish Rutherford, Tim Southee, Anurag Verma, Kane Williamson, George Worker.
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/u19w...ry/330800.html

Dipak Patel Coach. The other three selectors are Lance Cairns, John Wright and Kaushik Patel.

Looks like some national team coaches are finding easier to associate with the junior group of players.

[Tigers_eye]

Pakistan Under-19 squad
Imad Wasim (capt), Ali Asad, Ahmed Shehzad, Shan Masood, Umar Amin, Umair Mir (wk), Usman Salahuddin Shahzaib Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Rameez, Mohammad Aamer, Adil Raza, Junaid Khan, Azhar Attari, Ahsan Mirza

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/paki...ry/330269.html

Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal's brother is in the squad. He has some terrific domestic stats this year as a debutdant. For Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, he scored 851 runs at 85 from nine first-class matches.

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
SQUAD
Suharwardi Shuvo (captain), Dollar Mahmud, Marshall Ayub, Shuvashish Roy, Rubel Hossain, Golam Kibriya, Rony Talukdar, Mahmudul Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Mohammad Shakil, Nadimuddin Mintu, Mohammad Mithun, Saikat Ali, Amit Majumder and Ashiqul Islam.

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=19409

Go Tigers!! Finish the job your previous groups had started.

Tamim Iqbal should have been included in the team to strengthen the batting...

[Nafi]

I think we can agree than Tamim Iqbal is pretty much the best under-19 batsman in the world

[Omio]

Ami choudury Jafor ulla Sharafat kullampur er kilab kilab math theke janachii...

Kuala Lumpu always remind me those days of ICC trophy.

[akabir77]

Originally Posted by Nafi
I think we can agree than Tamim Iqbal is pretty much the best under-19 batsman in the world

not really have you seen the indian middle order? our 19 year get easy pass to ntl team that doesn't mean all the other 19s r crap...

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Omio
Ami choudury Jafor ulla Sharafat kullampur er kilab kilab math theke janachii...

Kuala Lumpu always remind me those days of ICC trophy.

Aren't those sweet memories? We still have few playing from that team in the national team. hmm!! 10+ years has rolled of. Anyways, Kuala Lumpur is our lucky ground. Come on Tigers!!

[Nafi]

Originally Posted by akabir77
not really have you seen the indian middle order? our 19 year get easy pass to ntl team that doesn't mean all the other 19s r crap...

I'll comment if Tamim maintains a test average of 50+ and upps his ODI average to 26+ after the ODI series.

[akabir77]

Originally Posted by Nafi
I'll comment if Tamim maintains a test average of 50+ and upps his ODI average to 26+ after the ODI series.

I don't know how you can compare him with other countries 19s when others r not even playing in their country's ntl team.

[zainab]

Originally Posted by Nafi
I think we can agree than Tamim Iqbal is pretty much the best under-19 batsman in the world

I agree! I like him a lot and he has a great future. the series against NZ revealed a better side of this young lad and under Coach Siddons, he will be a great asset to BD cricket. He is not yet 19 yrs, and most batsmen dont mature until they are about 25 yrs old, so he has many years before him.
Can you imagine that a few months ago, fans here were writing him off.

[Eshen]

Brooks to lead West Indies Under-19s

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/u19w...ry/331741.html

Sharmarh Brooks, the Barbados batsman, has been named captain of a 15-man West Indies squad for the Under-19 World Cup to be held in Malaysia from February 17 to March 2.

Brooks, who took part in the previous edition of the tournament in 2006, will have Steven Jacobs, the offspinning allrounder from Guyana, as his deputy. The squad includes two 17-year-olds; Adrian Barath, the promising right-hand batsman from Trinidad and Tobago, who has scored 485 runs at 53.88 in his six first-class appearances, and Andre Creary, the Jamaica batsman.

Darren Bravo, the younger brother of West Indies allrounder Dwayne, also finds a place in the squad, so does Veerasamy Permaul, the Guyana offspinner who is expected to play a significant part in West Indies' bowling campaign, considering that he has taken 18 wickets at 30.77 at the first-class level and eight List A wickets at 29.62.

The squad will gather in Barbados for a training session from January 24, before leaving for Bangladesh in time for a series of four one-day practice matches from January 29 to Febraury 8. After this, they fly to Malaysia, where they will play practice matches with Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe on February 12 and 14 respectively.

The squad will be coached by Larry Gomes, while Clyde Butts which take charge of managerial duties.

Squad
Sharmarh Brooks (capt), Steve Jacobs (vice-captain), Adrian Barath, Nkrumah Bonner, Darren Bravo, Kyle Corbin, Andre Creary, Jason Dawes, Dawnley Grant, Delorn Johnson, Horace Miller, Veerasammy Permaul, Kieran Powell, Devon Thomas, Shacoya Thomas

[One World]

I am very excited about this tour. This time we have the best team also no more crushing opponents at home and then failing to them in the tourney (England U19).

[Eshen]

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/aust...ry/326820.html

Michael Hill, the Victorian batsman, will lead Australia's 15-member squad for the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. Hill was given a rookie contract earlier this year, though he's yet to make his senior debut for Victoria. His deputy, Phillip Hughes, burst onto the state scene with half-centuries on his Pura Cup and FR Ceup debuts for New South Wales this summer. Both are graduates from the latest batch of the Australian academy.

Squad Michael Hill (capt) (Vic), Phillip Hughes (vice-capt) (NSW), Daniel Burns (NSW), Michael Cranmer (SA), James Faulkner (Tas), Josh Hazlewood (NSW), David King (Vic), Dominic O'Brien (Qld), Kirk Pascoe (SA), James Pattinson (Vic), Clive Rose (Vic), Kumar Sarna (Vic), Jeremy Smith (Tas), Steven Smith (NSW), Marcus Stoinis (WA).
Standby players: Cameron Francis (NT), Chris Quelch (WA).

[Eshen]

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/berm...ry/329716.html

Rodney Trott will captain a side which includes Malachi Jones, who played for the national team in last year's World Cup.

Squad Rodney Trott (capt), Malachi Jones, Chris Douglas, Kyle Hodsoll, Stefan Kelly, Tamuari Tucker, Regino Smith, Jordan DeSilva, Gregory Maybury, Jr, Lamar Richardson, Deunte Darrell, Dennico Hollis, Pierre Smith, Tre Govia, Terryn Fray. Standby: Kevon Fubler.

[Eshen]

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/irel...ry/326310.html

Greg Thompson leads the side in his third World Cup, following the tournaments in Bangladesh in 2004, and Sri Lanka in 2006. Three others have experience from 2006 - James Hall, Richard Keaveney and Gavin McKenna - while of the rest, seven are under 17.

Squad Greg Thompson (capt), Ben Ackland, Balbirnie, Andrew Britton, Christopher Dougherty, Shane Getkate, James Hall, Richard Keaveney, Theo Lawson, Graham McDonnell, Gavin McKenna, Lee Nelson, Stuart Poynter (wk), James Shannon, Paul Stirling.

[Eshen]

http://ecb.co.uk/news/media-releases...,15220,EN.html

The England and Wales Cricket Board have named Alex Wakely as captain of the 14-man squad to take part in the forthcoming ICC Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia during February 2008.

The squad includes nine players who have already played first-class cricket for their counties.

Of those players Billy Godleman has enjoyed an excellent 2007 season, notching up his maiden first-class century for Middlesex and scoring 149 from 150 balls to help England Under-19s beat the touring Pakistan Under-19 side at Grace Road.

England squad for ICC Under-19 World Cup

Alex Wakely (Northamptonshire) captain
Ben Brown (Sussex) wkt
Liam Dawson (Hampshire)
Steven Finn (Middlesex)
Billy Godleman (Middlesex)
James Harris (Glamorgan)
James Lee (Yorkshire)
Stuart Meaker (Surrey)
Sam Northeast (Kent)
Daniel Redfern (Derbyshire)
James Taylor (Worcestershire)
Tom Westley (Essex)
Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)
Greg Wood (Yorkshire) wkt

[Sohel]

Thanks Ehsen and Mijan (as usual) for the valuable info ...

Hmm, no Asian players in the English squad from the looks of it. No new Nasser Hussein in the horizon I suppose.

[Rabz]

Thanks for your informative effort TE and Eshen.

[Tigers_eye]

Thank you very much Eshen for your posts and links.

Dhonnobad Sohel bhai and Rabz.

From the looks of it, is it too early to dream about all asian semi-finals? Certainly the previous results seem to support that. Barring upsets they should be there.