Quadrangular Under-19 Series

[rkt.india]

2nd Match: India Under-19s v Zimbabwe Under-19s at Visakhapatnam, Sep 23, 2013 India Under-19s 185/5 (40.0 ov) http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/656909.html 1st Match: Australia Under-19s v South Africa Under-19s at Visakhapatnam, Sep 23, 2013 South Africa Under-19s 148/9 (40.0 ov)

[Chandan]

http://goo.gl/jgMOyP All-round Deepak Hooda helps India U-19 thrash Zimbabwe U-19 PTI : Visakhapatnam, Mon Sep 23 2013, 17:34 hrs Ankush Bains contributed an useful 49 off 62 balls at the top while Shreyas Iyer (28) and skipper Vijay Zol (17) couldn't convert their starts. (PTI) Deepak Hooda produced a fine all-round performance to help the Indian Under-19 cricket team register a comprehensive 148-run win over Zimbabwe in the opening match of the Quadrangular Under-19 One-Day Series, here today. Hooda sizzled with the bat smashing an unbeaten 83 and then grabbed two for 37 with his tight medium pacers to set up an easy win. Earlier, opting to bat, the Indian colts rode Hooda's quickfire knock and 15-year-old Sarfaraz Khan's run-a-ball 55 to post 291 for six in their 50 overs. Promoted up the order at No 6, Hooda used his long handle to great effect as he clobbered Zimbabwean bowlers during his 55-ball knock hitting five fours and an equal number of sixes in the process. Hooda did not spare a single Zimbabwe bowler during his merciless innings and stitched two quick partnerships with Ricky Bhui (19) and Sarfaraz to take India forward. Hooda first shared 77 runs for the fifth wicket with Bhui in 12.2 overs and then blasted 72 runs off 35 balls along with Sarfaraz to take the hosts close to the 300-run mark. Apart from Hooda and Sarfaraz, wicket-keeper Ankush Bains contributed an useful 49 off 62 balls at the top while Shreyas Iyer (28) and skipper Vijay Zol (17) couldn't convert their starts. Right-arm pacer Kieran Geyle (3/32) was the star performer for Zimbabwe with the ball, while Luke Mafuwa Jongwe picked up two wickets giving away 59 runs. Defending the total, Indian bowlers picked up wickets at regular intervals to bowl out Zimbabwe for a paltry 143 in 41.2 overs. Left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav picked up four wickets for 34 runs for the hosts, while Hooda (2/37), off-spinner Gani (2/37) and Sarfaraz (2/9) shared six wickets between them. The 55-run third-wicket partnership between Ryan Burl (46) and Kieran Geyle (18) was the lone bright spot of Zimbabwe's chase. India will play South Africa Under-19 team in their next match while Zimbabwe will be up against Australia. Meanwhile, in another match of the series being held simultaneously, South Africa Under-19 defeated Australia Under-19 by 17 runs. Opting to bat, South Africa could only muster 179 all out in 44 overs before bowling out the Australians for 162 in 44.2 overs. Brief Scores: India Under-19: 291 for six in 50 overs (Deepak Hooda 83 not out, Sarfaraz Khan 55; Kieran Geyle 3/32). Zimbabwe Under-19: 143 all out in 41.2 overs (Ryan Burl 46; Kuldeep Yadav 4/34). ------------------------------------------- Who are the most promising U19 players from Australia and SA worth keeping an eye on? From India I know about Zol, Hooda, Sarfaraz and in match Kuldeep Yadav has done well too. Any good seamer at this level from India?

[rkt.india]

That is is Zol in the pic above.

[rkt.india]

http://goo.gl/jgMOyP ------------------------------------------- Who are the most promising U19 players from Australia and SA worth keeping an eye on? From India I know about Zol, Hooda, Sarfaraz and in match Kuldeep Yadav has done well too. Any good seamer at this level from India?

Abhimanyu Lamba and Chama Millind both are promising.

[rkt.india]

Shubham Khajuria from J&K should have been picked instead of SS Iyer who played 3 day matches against SL U19 and scored briskly. He will be good for one days. For Zimbabwe captain Malcolm Lake is one to watch out for. He is fearsome hitter. He scored a 100 against us in last U19 WC in 2012. http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-under19-world-cup-2012/content/story/577358.html

[Chandan]

Abhimanyu Lamba and Chama Millind both are promising.

Shubham Khajuria from J&K should have been picked instead of SS Iyer who played 3 day matches against SL U19 and scored briskly. He will be good for one days. For Zimbabwe captain Malcolm Lake is one to watch out for. He is fearsome hitter. He scored a 100 against us in last U19 WC in 2012. http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-under19-world-cup-2012/content/story/577358.html

Thanks. Anyone from SA and Australia? They must be having few promising seaming if not anyone else?

[rkt.india]

Thanks. Anyone from SA and Australia? They must be having few promising seaming if not anyone else?

Here is a video of Aussie bowling attack. You can find videos of Indian seamers Chama Millind and Abhimanyu Lamba on this channel too. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtotCRbfKh0]Australia U19's Bowling Attack, April 2013 - YouTube[/ame]

[FischerTal]

rkt how fast does chama milind bowl?

[rkt.india]

rkt how fast does chama milind bowl?

Don't know, looks pretty good for his age. His basics look very good from the videos, good strong action and runup. He is quick enough for this level right now.

[rkt.india]

Match day. SA U19 87/2. http://www.bcci.tv/bcci/bccitv/community/domesticresult/livescorecard/1795

[Sidhoni]

Brilliant win! Chasing down 275 in less than 40 overs :hatsoff: Sarfaraz Khan hits 101 off 66 balls.

[Chandan]

http://goo.gl/w667qK 15-year-old Sarfaraz hits a century as India U-19 win again Sep 25, 2013 Visakhapatnam: Fifteen year old Mumbai youngster Sarfaraz Khan smashed 101 off only 66 balls to help India colts record a four-wicket victory over South Africa in their round robin league encounter of the U-19 Quadrangular tournament here today. Chasing a target of 270, India U-19 won the match in only 39.3 overs losing six wickets courtesy Sarfaraz and Ricky Bhui who cracked 94 not out. This was India U-19′s second successive win in the tournament having beaten Zimbabwe in the opening encounter. Sarfaraz Khan was the start for India. Sarfaraz, the youngest member of this India U-19 team cracked 17 boundaries and a six during his scintillating knock. The 15-year-old showed maturity beyond his years as he added 159 runs for the fifth wicket in less than 20 overs with Ricky, whose contribution was also significant in the context of the match. Bhui faced 95 balls and hit 12 fours and three sixes. The duo came together when the hosts were in trouble at 93 for four and when Sarafaraz was out in the 36th over, the match was in India’s kitty. Bhui finished the match with a big six. The day belonged to young Sarfaraz, who has been a big name in Mumbai’s competitive school circuit. Sarfaraz and his eight-year old brother Musheer (youngest to get five wickets in Mumbai’s Kanga league game) have shown knack of breaking records. Playing for Rizvi Springfield, he surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s Harris Shield score of 326, three years back when he was only 12. Earlier, Indian pacers Abhimanyu Lamba (3/55) and Chama Milind (3/52) shared the maximum of the spoils as South Africa scored 269 for eight in 50 overs after opting to bat. Clyde Fortuin (90) and Llyod Brown (69) were chief contributors. In another round robin league match, Australia U-19 thrashed Zimbabwe by 147 runs. Brief Scores: South Africa U-19 269/8 in 50 overs (Clyde Fortuin 90, Llyod Brown 69, Chama Milind 3/52, Abhimanyu Lamba 3/55). India U-19 275/6 in 39.3 overs (Sarfaraz Khan 101, Ricky Bhui 94). India U-19 won by 4 wickets. Pts: India 4, SA 0. --------------------------------------------------- http://goo.gl/eTReWQ All-round Australia thump Zimbabwe ESPNcricinfo staff September 25, 2013 A century from the opener Kelvin Smith, followed by a five-wicket haul by the legspinner Tom Andrews powered Australia Under-19s to a comprehensive 147-run victory over Zimbabwe Under-19s in Visakhapatnam. Smith smashed a total of 20 fours and one six during his 137-ball 139, and added 210 and 64 for the first and second wicket with Damien Mortimer and Jaron Morgan respectively. The pair played the ideal foils to Smith's knock, with Mortimer making a patient 79 from 113 balls that included 10 fours and a six, while Morgan accelerated towards the end by blasting eight fours and four sixes during his 34-ball 70, to take Australia to a mammoth 329 in their 50 overs. Zimbabwe made a brief fight of the chase as the openers Dylan Nel and Joylord Gumbie raced to 84 inside 16 overs, but Andrews decimated their top order in quick succession and finished with 5 for 55, to end any chance of an unlikely Zimbabwe win. No other significant partnerships materialised, and the last eight batsmen made just 42 runs between them, as the offspinner Riley Ayre picked up the last three wickets to bowl Zimbabwe out for 182 in 35 overs. A 159-run stand for the fifth wicket between Sarfaraz Khan and Ricky Bhui made the difference in the end, as India Under-19s chased down 271 to complete a four-wicket win against South Africa Under-19s. The hosts were struggling at 93 for 4 after 15.4 overs, but Sarfaraz and Bhui counterattacked by smashing 29 fours and four sixes between them to take the attack to South Africa. Sarfaraz eventually departed in the 36th over for a quickfire 101 that came in just 66 deliveries, but Bhui remained unbeaten at 94 to take India home with 10.3 overs remaining. Electing to bat, South Africa had earlier got off to a slow start, losing two wickets for just 36 runs inside 11 overs. But Clyde Fortuin and Lloyd Brown added 124 for the third wicket to help take the visitors to 270 for 8. Fortuin struck 15 fours during his 99-ball 90, while Brown's 69 included five fours and two sixes. Abhimanyu Lamba and Chama Milind picked up three wickets each for India.

[rkt.india]

India 108/2 in 23 overs against Australia. http://www.bcci.tv/bcci/bccitv/community/domesticresult/livescorecard/1796

[rkt.india]

145/3 29 overs. Zol gone for 38/

[rkt.india]

321/5 in 50 overs. SS Iyer 109 of 67 balls, 10 fours, 6 sixes. Ricky Bhui 66 of 67 balls 6 fours, 2 sixes.

[Sidhoni]

Big total :nice: lets hope bowlers can defend

[Chandan]

http://goo.gl/n8eHz5 India U-19 in final after Shreyas Iyer's 58-ball ton Jonathan Selvaraj : Visakhapatnam, Sat Sep 28 2013, 15:46 hrs Giving interviews post his 67-ball 109 against Australia on Friday, Shreyas Iyer is the last to get onto the team bus at Visakhapatnam's ACA VDCA Stadium. While the rest of the India Under-19 team is seated, Sarfaraz Khan, hero of the last match against South Africa with a 66-ball 101, stands behind Iyer and waits. "Bas tere liye hi ruka hua hoon," Khan tells Iyer. At the team hotel, the two Mumbaikars are roommates. They will probably celebrate Iyer's century with a chicken dish — something not permitted at Iyer's house in Worli. Iyer and Khan have been friends right from Mumbai's U-13 grade cricket, through the U-16 and U-19 camps and teams. Both crack jokes at each other's expense, love to dance to Bollywood tunes and clearly share a common passion for taking opposition bowling apart with quickfire centuries. While Khan's knock had rescued India from a tough position against SA, Iyer's innings, which included 6 clean sixes and 10 fours in a century raised off just 58 balls, saw India rack up 321/5. The target was revised for Australia Under-19 after rain – they were set 175 in 30 overs – but it still proved beyond them as they fell short by 18 runs. While the outcome may have been the same, the duo's approach to the game is anything but. Unlike Khan, Iyer doesn't get a call from his father. While tiger dad Naushad Khan will want to know what exactly his son has done (not too much was possible on Friday considering he came in with just three overs to go), Worli businessman Santosh Iyer will get a call from his son informing him of his century hours after the match has ended. In Mumbai's hyper-competitive cricket circuit, Iyer is a bit of an oddity. "I wasn't pushed by anyone into it, nor did I have to fight anyone to play. I play it because I love playing it," he says. Indeed cricket for Iyer appears less a matter of life and death and simply a passion, albeit one he is very good at. It doesn't mean Iyer takes the game casually. What it means is that the 18-year-old scarcely gets perturbed by activities on or off the field and has an ability to roll with the punches when things aren't going his way. Having been captain of Mumbai U-16, he failed to make the cut in his first U-19 season in 2011. "He simply worked harder, got stronger physically and returned the next year even better," says Worli Club's Ganesh Iyer. Shreyas Iyer got three centuries in seven matches of the 2012 U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy, earning himself a place at the NCA. Subsequent performances saw him making the U-19 squad. "What really sets him apart from others is the fact that he doesn't get tensed up," says the U-19 team's coach Bharat Arun, who was also chief coach at the NCA earlier this year. At the time they enter the NCA, all students have to fill out an interview form. Arun remembers, in particular, an answer from Iyer. "The question was 'what is my approach when I go out to bat'. Shreyas had written that when he went to bat his mind was blank." According to Arun, the U-19 stage is where handling pressure becomes a virtue. "Your parents and friends will say this is your big opportunity, don't blow it up. So you start carrying all of that with you when you go out to bat," he says. Not Iyer, though. In the two previous games here, he had thrown away his wickets after getting starts. Earlier, on the U-19 team's tour of Australia, he had made 16 in three innings. None of that perhaps bothered him on Friday. "When he takes his guard, he is only focused on batting and that is what makes him so good," says Arun. Brief scores: India U-19: 321/5 in 50 ovs (Shreyas Iyer 109, Ricky Bhui 66; Kelvin Smith 2/64). Australia U-19: 156/3 in 30 overs (Kelvin Smith 74; Kuldeep Yadav 1/18)

[Vijy]

Ankush Bains did pretty well in the last match. An opening wicket-keeper batsman would be an unusual asset to have. After Dhoni retires, we need a keeper who can keep well, but also bat in the top 6/7. Samson is developing well, but backup is also reqd.

[rkt.india]

Indian team chased 246 in 28 overs against Zimbabwe. WK/batsman Ankush Bains 128 of just 89 balls 14 fours 7 sixes. Akhil Herwadker 88 not out 71 balls 7 fours 4 sixes. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/656921.html

[Chandan]

Indian team chased 246 in 28 overs against Zimbabwe. WK/batsman Ankush Bains 128 of just 89 balls 14 fours 7 sixes. Akhil Herwadker 88 not out 71 balls 7 fours 4 sixes. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/656921.html

Have you guys noticed? Zol hasn't shone in even a single match out of 4. What has happened? He was doing quite well before this tournament, even at A level. Why has he flopped here?