Official Under 19 World Cup thread

[TT Boy]

Congrats to India, deserved winners overall.

Although, South Africa should be kicking themselves. For if only they decided to use their brains in the first ten overs they would have walked it under D/L. As it was transpired they had to go at a run a ball on a track where no side in the competition (against decent opposition) has achieved such a thing.

Decent effort anyhow considering they were the worst ranked (test) nation in the competition coming into the tournament.

 

[pup11]

Congrats to the Indian boys, they really did deserve to win the WC, so well played guys.
Anyways the South African U-19 boys also played pretty well through the tournament but like their senior-team, they also choked when it mattered the most.

 

[biased indian]

Each memebr of the team to get 1.5 million indian rupees ...Not bad for 19 year old's

 

[Flem274*]

Tim Southee named player of the tournament

 

[biased indian]

Open-top bus parade planned for Under-19 stars

 

[Raghav]

Tim Southee named player of the tournament

Thats really a great tournament for him... I think he will be selected for the English tour.

 

[pup11]

Each memebr of the team to get 1.5 million indian rupees ...Not bad for 19 year old's

Yeah but they have worked their backsides off to get where they are today, its good to see that BCCI had the decency to reward these kids.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

You have to watch you dont reward these youngsters too early though. If they have it all so early they may lose the motivation to really push on. I've seen it happen all too often

 

[Jono]

Was a good weekend for Indian cricket.

May be if it was aussies they might have done that ...

Haha I was going to reply with that.

 

[Manee]

Dav very successful in his first assignment, interesting to say the least.

 

[bond21]

i would only expect 1, maybe 2 of every player in all the teams to play at the top level, its a big step.

Brett Lee did, McCullum did(not too hard though for him)

 

[Salamuddin]

Thought RSA stuffed up bigtime by asking India to bat in the final.


Why on earth would you do that
a) when its a final
b) when you won your previous two games convincingly batting first ?

 

[Flem274*]

i would only expect 1, maybe 2 of every player in all the teams to play at the top level, its a big step.

Brett Lee did, McCullum did(not too hard though for him)

Yeah only Adam Parore, arguably our best keeper ever, to compete with. No challenge at all.

EDIT: To elaborate on your post more, four years ago Taylor and Ryder were at U-19 level, as was Greg hay who will make the step up anytime now, so the U-19 system works, not idea on the numbers of U-19 players playing for other countries but the system works.

I do agree that whole U-19 teams won't make it, the age gap is alot wider in top grade cricket so theres players from many U-19 eras in the sides, but the numbers will vary from country to country, depending on the strength of the recent, current, and near future U-19 sides.

So in essence I've cancelled my argument out.