Is this the weakest indian u19 team in the last 10 years ro so

[gakgupta]

Spinner cannot spin the ball batters technique is little questionable.

 

On the flat tracks , these guys can score 400 or even 450 but little challenging pitches, they are piss poor. 

 

Only bright side is pacers look good

[Manucrick]

Definitely not the greatest  they're a bit like flat track bullies

[gakgupta]

Deepesh looks good for his age

[jf1gp_1]

No last time one was equally bad. 

[cowboysfan]

probably,bowling is really bad with no hopers playing in the 11.

[vvvslaxman]

No . I don't think so. they beat a exact same England in England convincingly 3-2. Also they demolished Australia 3-0 in Australia.  This is far from bad. They are more irresponsible though. They needed a guy like Dravid. Now Laxman has joined Joshi.  Sunil Joshi is duffer.

[vvvslaxman]

33 minutes ago, jf1gp_1 said:

No last time one was equally bad. 

Last time was worse. This is a very good unit. They even outplayed England and Australia in Youth tests not jsut Youth ODIs early this year.

[tapandrun]

No, this is best side overall after Gill/Shaw side. All batters are v.good for u-19 though mahtre does not seem to have good odi record.

 

Most bowler can bat, Ambrish is looking good seam bowling allrounder. Ind fast bowling since Shaw/gill wc have not been good or those who played are not able to improve much.

 

Bowling is concerns but bowlers like ennam, ambrish, killan can bat and batter like mahatre, Vaibhav, Kanishk, malhotra can bowl. This team atleast is in-tune with current req. of white-ball cricket.

 

[Lord]

 

 

[Sandz]

@gakgupta open a similar thread for the T20 World Cup.

[bsriharsha]

The Suryavanshi show made the other batsmen look average. But they looked alright.

Bowling's been a concern though

[vvvslaxman]

31 minutes ago, bsriharsha said:

The Suryavanshi show made the other batsmen look average. But they looked alright.

Bowling's been a concern though

Kundu is future pant. Others will take a long long time.  Vihaan - Tanmay srivastaa vibe,  Trivedi - baba Aparajith vibe,  Mhatre - Shaw vibe.

[BacktoCricaddict]

2 hours ago, bsriharsha said:

Bowling's been a concern though

Especially fast bowling. The main reason I keep track of U-19 is to see if we can unearth some fast bowlers, but apart from Deepesh Devendran (and I don't even know how fast he is), I don't see any potential there.

 

[BacktoCricaddict]

2 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Kundu is future pant.

That's high praise. Skills-wise, maybe. But the winner-DNA that Pant has? That's tough.

[vvvslaxman]

4 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

That's high praise. Skills-wise, maybe. But the winner-DNA that Pant has? That's tough.

yes. He was the crisis man in the India A test tour, ODI tour for India. 

[gakgupta]

On 2/10/2026 at 8:40 PM, BacktoCricaddict said:

That's high praise. Skills-wise, maybe. But the winner-DNA that Pant has? That's tough.

 

 

Kundu played some incredible innings when the back against the wall .. we need these kind of players esp for odi side and one day side 

[tapandrun]

On 2/10/2026 at 10:09 AM, BacktoCricaddict said:

Especially fast bowling. The main reason I keep track of U-19 is to see if we can unearth some fast bowlers, but apart from Deepesh Devendran (and I don't even know how fast he is), I don't see any potential there.

 

Do not think, faster bowler will come from U-19 anymore. IPL/Domestic t20 leagues are better place.

 

Allrounder, Mystery Spin and Pacer <-- Domestic t20 leagues