Under 19 World Cup 2014

9/2 against Scotland....

19/3 seen better days for Indian cricket

22/5

Aust in trouble:

[ltr]Afghanistan Under-19s 203/4 (42.3 ov)[/ltr]
[ltr]Australia Under-19s[/ltr]

TFFT, not losing to Scotland today.

Aust in real trouble against the 'Ghanis.

188/8 in 45 overs. Afghanistan has all but won.


Only for Australia to nick this in the last ball now.

They've done it. Afghanistan win by 36 runs.

Good news for world cricket you would have to say.

Obvious riposte

Never bad news when Australia lose.

Aus also lost to Zimbabwe in one of the warm-ups.

Under 19s cricket means sweet f*ck all in the scheme of things, though. If it was a true indicator of how international teams will perform in 4-5 years time, then a dashing young English captain by the name of Owais Shah would have led the prodigious talents of Stephen Peters, Richie Logan, and Robert Key to Ashes glory down under in 2002-03.

Key DID make the squad for that series, and was clean-bowled by Damien Martyn at Adelaide......

Teams might not, but individuals are a very decent pointer.

Sarfaraz Khan looks good given his age. The Pakistani leggie wasn't too shabby either.

Eng u19s 136/5 after 41 overs, scoring at 3.2 an over.

That's the spirit, lads. Grind them into the dirt.

England only get their arses into gear in the final nine overs (the old Gilo tactic for success) and cobble together 229/8.

Decent enough start for the bowlers. Could well have the opposition 160-7 again

Sri Lankan New Zealander gone playing across a straight ball. 62-4

81/7 Winslade on fire

Eng will do well to dick this up.

Couple of wickets for the young leggie Rob Jones.

Always nice to see kids are still having a go at bowling leg spin, even though they'll probably be absolute rubbish in the longer term and only get a game for their county if they can bat.

Well if Aust19 doesn't beat Bang19, the former is out.

I see Dello is placing a lot of faith in these boys for the future.  
Would be embarrassing to see us out early.

Zim downed by their southern neighbours with the SA captain making a ton and unbeaten half ton following a ton. They have a bowler called Dill.  

Windies walloped Canada.

No one knows what it's like


To be the Shadman

Australia beat Bangladesh by 74 runs to knock out the latter.

Still, close group. Afg, Aust and Bang all won two matches, with the last being eliminated on runrate.

Afghanistan will go on to play South Africa in the Quarterfinals

India U19s 111/5 (32.5)

Matt Fisher taking names again with three top order wickets.

The most promising 16 year-old Yorkshire seamer since Tim Bresnan. Oh. That worked out well.