Under 25 XI for each test country

Pakistan

1- Butt
2- Jamsheed (Aggressive batsman, watch his innings vs IND in the asia cup)
3- Shehzad( Another aggressive batsman who IMO was the best batsman in the 2008 U 19 world cup)
4- U Amin( Shehzad's team mate...solid player)
5- F Alam
6- Sarfraz Ahmed
7- Junaid Nadir(Has had a great start to 1st class cricket)
8- M Aamer
9- Yasir Shah(leg spinner, he is not that great yet)
10- M Talha
11- U Gul

12- Sohail Khan(25)
13- Najaf Shah
14- K Manzoor
15- Azeem Ghumman

Most of those are really in their 30's....

Pretty easy for Bangladesh, there's only a couple in the side who are _over_ 25.

JKLever wrote:Most of those are really in their 30's....

This planet would have been a much better place had other stuff been recycled over and over as this joke

M Asif was 2 months and one dope test away from making the squad.

Windies Under 25 (most of whom played against England in the warm up match):

Adrian Barath (RHB, 18, FC batting 51)
Kieron Powell (LHB, 18, FC batting 45)
Lendl Simmons (RHB, 24, FC batting 35)
Daren Bravo (LHB, 20, FC batting 32)
Leon Johnson (LHB, 21, FC batting 31)
Andre Fletcher (RHB, 21, FC batting 28
Devon Thomas WK (RHB,19, FC average 20)
Darren Sammy (RHB, RM, 25, FC batting 25, FC bowling 25)
Kevin Mclean (RF, 21, FC bowling 20)
Kemar Roach (RF, 20, FC bowling 28
Gavin Wallace (RLS, 24, FC bowling 22)

Reserves:

Ravi Rampaul (24 years old, excellent bowler but always injured).
Brandon Bess (21, a tall tearaway fast bowler, but is extremely wild).
Xavier Marshall (22)
Kieron Pollard (21)
Justin Guillen (22, solid left handed opening batsman).

india would murder any other u25 side:

vijay
uthappa
raina
sharma
tiwary
karthik / parthiv +
irfan pathan *
chawla / ojha
rp singh
ishant
munaf patel

Ash wrote:india would murder any other u25 side:

vijay
uthappa
raina
sharma
tiwary
karthik / parthiv +
irfan pathan *
chawla / ojha
rp singh
ishant
munaf patel

lol..prolly true if in the subi, on a track prepared by an IPL contracted curator and umpired by guys intent on a bollywood career or who want a kidney for a relative

fancy posting an aussie XI? that side would probably beat your senior side LOL

1 Hughes
2 Dean
3 Hill
4 Finch
5 Forrest
6 Ferguson
7 Paine (w)
8 Holland
9 Siddle
10 Hazelewood
11 Pattinson (J)

Marsh
Hughes
Ferguson
Pomersbach
Cosgrove
White
Paine/Wade /Crosthwaite (keepers)
Casson/Krezja
Siddle
Hilfenhaus
Tait

embee wrote:Marsh
Hughes
Ferguson
Pomersbach
Cosgrove
White (C)
Paine/Wade /Crosthwaite (keepers)
Casson/Krezja Holland
Siddle
Hilfenhaus
Tait

J Pattinson

embee - you cannot seriously suggest selecting the zat of Shield cricket (cosgrove), let alone its Red (Tait)...i would have hill and Forrest ahead of Pommybasher

horace wrote:

embee wrote:Marsh
Hughes
Ferguson
Pomersbach
Cosgrove
White (C)
Paine/Wade /Crosthwaite (keepers)
Casson/Krezja Holland
Siddle
Hilfenhaus
Tait

J Pattinson

embee - you cannot seriously suggest selecting the zat of Shield cricket (cosgrove), let alone its Red (Tait)...i would have hill and Forrest ahead of Pommybasher

Horrie

The team was selected as such because with the exception of Hughes ( who is just about to) and the keepers they have all played for Australia at senior level in either Test , Jamodi or Jamitt.

Not saying it would be a great side ...not saying it's the best side from the players available ..

PS Dan Cullen would also be a spin option

Ash wrote:india would murder any other u25 side:

vijay
uthappa
raina
sharma
tiwary
karthik / parthiv +
irfan pathan *
chawla / ojha
rp singh
ishant
munaf patel

i am not so sure because Pakistan defeated IND in the under 19 world cup semi in 2004 and also in the 2006 final....

PlanetPakistan wrote:

Ash wrote:india would murder any other u25 side:

vijay
uthappa
raina
sharma
tiwary
karthik / parthiv +
irfan pathan *
chawla / ojha
rp singh
ishant
munaf patel

i am not so sure because Pakistan defeated IND in the under 19 world cup semi in 2004 and also in the 2006 final....

whats that got to do with anything?! this is an u25 side and most of the players are different. bangladesh always have a strong u19 side but they cant translate that to the senior level. fwiw india are the current u19 world champions

the bowling attack is pretty strong, the batting is uncharacteristically the weaker link

Ash wrote:

whats that got to do with anything?! this is an u25 side and most of the players are different. bangladesh always have a strong u19 side but they cant translate that to the senior level. fwiw india are the current u19 world champions

the bowling attack is pretty strong, the batting is uncharacteristically the weaker link

U25 is still junior level cricket and i am sure BD will have a very strong U 25 team as well...in fact their U 25 team would almost exactly be as good as their national side

As for PAK vs IND i am not sure how you can confidently say that IND will easily win when no one knows how good/bad guys like Aamer, Talha, Shahzad etc are.

BTW Sarfraz, Shahzad, Aamer*, Jamsheed, Alam have all played U 19 cricket

* missed the 2008 world cup due to sickness

Ash wrote:india would murder any other u25 side:

vijay
uthappa
raina
sharma
tiwary
karthik / parthiv +
irfan pathan *
chawla / ojha
rp singh
ishant
munaf patel

Assuming that if you are 25 you still qualify(as is the case in SA), we would have amongst others:

Steyn
M Morkel
Tsotobe
Parnell
AB de Villiers
JP Duminy

I think India might battle to murder that team.

Ash wrote:india would murder any other u25 side:

vijay
uthappa
raina
sharma
tiwary
karthik / parthiv +
irfan pathan *
chawla / ojha
rp singh
ishant
munaf patel

take out tiwary, put in pujara

take out uthappa/raina, put in rahane

embee wrote:

horace wrote:

embee wrote:Marsh
Hughes
Ferguson
Pomersbach
Cosgrove
White (C)
Paine/Wade /Crosthwaite (keepers)
Casson/Krezja Holland
Siddle
Hilfenhaus
Tait

J Pattinson

embee - you cannot seriously suggest selecting the zat of Shield cricket (cosgrove), let alone its Red (Tait)...i would have hill and Forrest ahead of Pommybasher

Horrie

The team was selected as such because with the exception of Hughes ( who is just about to) and the keepers they have all played for Australia at senior level in either Test , Jamodi or Jamitt.

Not saying it would be a great side ...not saying it's the best side from the players available ..

PS Dan Cullen would also be a spin option

Even if 25 year olds qualify, MILF only does so for another 4 weeks.

David Warner qualifies

{{David Warner qualifies }}

thanx JGK my feelings of inordinate happiness have crashed back to grim reality

yikes...just realised I have acquired festive spivs...thanx dello

kharma no doubt for excessive happiness and a little gloating on the other thread

Ash wrote:india would murder any other u25 side:

vijay
parthiv +
uthappa/Dhawan
Pujara
raina
sharma
tiwary
chawla
ishant
Sreesanth
munaf patel

Pathan
RPS
Kohli
Jadeja
Uthappa/Dhawan
Rahane

My team

Billy Godleman
Alastair Cook
Adam Lyth
Ravi Bopara
Samit Patel
Dawid Malan
Steven Davies
Stuart Broad
Adil Rashid
Tim Bresnan
Chris Woakes

I was surprised by how 'not bad' that turned out. I thought about Chris Jordan and Steven Finn but decided that one was a bit Windian and one was over-rated. Bats down to 11; I wasn't really sure where to bat everyone after 6.