U19 cricket world cup

[1990crow]

Thought this deserved its own thread. Maybe to discuss the performance of our up and coming youngsters as well as other teams.

First game started today with Australia taking on the WI and it seems we lost through bad weather more than anything else. Good to see Mitch Marsh getting a 70-odd but it seems he didn't bowl himself, he being captain which is a little disappointing considering the raps for his bowling after that twenty20 game last week. We probably should have been able to take the last wicket to win but, what do you do!

Here is just a bit of a summary of the first match:

Australia U19 XI: 7/319 def by (D/L system)
Maddinson 74
M. Marsh 71
Beaton 44
Armstrong 37

no major wicket takers for WI

WI U19 XI: 9/263 43.4 overs
Cariah 65

Zampa 3/41
McDemott very expensive 2/60

[danielnajdek]

The D/L System sucks need to change it to something else.

[damochandler]

pakistan will be favorite for this tournement and india might 2nd favorites. i reckon those 2 will play final and pakistan will win

[lewigie]

How the **** did we lose that?

[J Selwood14]

just a warm up game i think

[lewigie]

Even cricinfo hasn't registered this match yet.

Cheers :thumbsu:

[Russian]

Just a practice game, the real stuff doesn't start until Friday (Saturday for the Aussies)

[alfy!]

Funny Duckworth Lewish result. Nice to see Marsh get some runs. Will be very interested once the real tournament begins.

[J Selwood14]

cricket site is saying we won
http://cricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=news-display&id=19746

[Sman-21]

wow a team has 1 wicket left prob 2 bowlers batting an need to score almost a run a ball for 6 overs an the result goes to them.

What The


doh too slow selwoods link and result sounds more likely

[CAS79]

wow a team has 1 wicket left prob 2 bowlers batting an need to score almost a run a ball for 6 overs an the result goes to them.

What The


doh too slow selwoods link and result sounds more likely

Im pretty sure it's not correct.

[YOTC]

Yeah I looked over that scorecard several times and i could not see any point where the Windies would have won with that score.

Duckworth Lewis gets it right again :)

[Cousin Jed]

Yeah I looked over that scorecard several times and i could not see any point where the Windies would have won with that score.

Duckworth Lewis gets it right again :)

Was thinking the same thing. Glad I don't have to brush up on my DL knowledge again.

[Spikey]

Hope Luke Doran isn't like the Queensland Doran........

PS http://e.yimg.com/ni/icccricket/iccu19/images/player-images/australia/160-224/alister-mcdermott.jpg

Poor pic of Alistair....

[Cousin Jed]

The Qld Doran took 7/14 in 1st grade cricket on Saturday.

Sad but true.

[Spikey]

Wow wow wow wow. Hold up a minute.


His captain actually bowled him? Amazing.

[idel one]

He he he - he's the Gold Coast Captain so he had the inside running!;)

Got Grade Player of the Week on the strength of that effort - not sure if that means he gets a start when the Bulls play at the SCG - there's a chance they might look at Cam Boyce I hear.

[Bugz]

Another warm up today;

Bangladesh 7/230 (39 overs) def. Australia 210 (38.4)

Scorecard (http://iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net/matchesandscores/auba1201_full_scorecard.html?filename=auba1201&classname=scorecard)

[danielnajdek]

Mmm doesn't make for good reading.

[Spikey]

First thoughts are "no McDermott, no Hazlewood".

So weird seeing a keeper batting at 9 in a OD.

[YOTC]

Mmm doesn't make for good reading.
Bangladesh have had great u/19 teams for years. Won't be long until they can build a good team to compete highly at test/odi level.

[damochandler]

australia has never been a good under 19's team, pakistan, india and bangladesh always look good in this comp.

[Chris25]

First thoughts are "no McDermott, no Hazlewood".

Who needs them when you have Kane Richardson though? Taken wickets in both games, and scored some runs in the second warm up game too. Just another talented young Redback.

Will be interesting to see how Australia go. Obviously Marsh, McDermott, Hazlewood and Richardson have all played domestic cricket. But there is only so much they can do...

For anyone who is interested a couple of the West Indians (Brathwaite and Creary) were called up to the Test squad during the player strike. So they could be two players to watch for.

[1990crow]

Who needs them when you have Kane Richardson though? Taken wickets in both games, and scored some runs in the second warm up game too. Just another talented young Redback.

Will be interesting to see how Australia go. Obviously Marsh, McDermott, Hazlewood and Richardson have all played domestic cricket. But there is only so much they can do...

For anyone who is interested a couple of the West Indians (Brathwaite and Creary) were called up to the Test squad during the player strike. So they could be two players to watch for.

Don't suppose you know much about Kane Richardson and what pace he bowls at? Last year in the local twenty twenty comp final a friend of mine said he was bowling at around 140 ks'. I think that if Kane can hit the high 140's he'll have a look into the aussie side later down the track. I say this as there doesn't seem to be too many young quicks going around in Australia that will be able to produce that kind of pace.

[aussie1st]

If hes bowling 140 at 18 then hes definitely one to watch for. None of the young quicks so far are at that pace, most are high 130s at most.

[Chris25]

Not certain, but at this stage I don't think Richardson is hitting the 140 mark (at least not consistently). As he develops, I wouldn't be surprised to see him bowling around the mid-140's. Hopefully like a Jason Gillespie, while Peter George plays the Glenn McGrath role....

He tends to be a bit expensive, but has also put in a few excellent games in regards to strike rate and economy. His all round ability is pretty promising though.

[Juddy88]

Is the tournament going to be televised on Fox again?

[Russian]

Is the tournament going to be televised on Fox again?yes.

[Cousin Jed]

And to be specific on the games covered:

Thursday 21 January India v England
Saturday 23 January Quarter Final 4
Sunday 24 January Quarter Final 2
Monday 25 January Semi Final 1
Wednesday 27 January Semi Final 2
Saturday 30 January Final

[MRobbo]

The championships start tomorrow all games will be starting at 8:30am AEDT (10:30am local time). Live scoring on the official website http://iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net/index.html

Tomorrow's Games
Group A at Bert Sutcliffe Oval,Lincoln
India vs Afghanistan
Group B at Queenstown Events Centre(Australia's Group)
South Africa vs Ireland
Group C at Queen Elizabeth II at Christchurch
Zimbabwe vs Canada
Group D at Fitzherbet Park,Palmerston North
Pakistan vs West Indies

[Santana]

And to be specific on the games covered:

Thursday 21 January India v England
Saturday 23 January Quarter Final 4
Sunday 24 January Quarter Final 2
Monday 25 January Semi Final 1
Wednesday 27 January Semi Final 2
Saturday 30 January Final

Would have been nice if they could have shown the Australia vs SA game too.

[legend166]

And to be specific on the games covered:

Thursday 21 January India v England
Saturday 23 January Quarter Final 4
Sunday 24 January Quarter Final 2
Monday 25 January Semi Final 1
Wednesday 27 January Semi Final 2
Saturday 30 January Final


So we might not even get to see any Aussie games?

That sucks.

[Cousin Jed]

Only games at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval are being shown on tv, which of course just happens to be India's group. ESPN Star Sports being the ICC broadcast partner.

[Spikey]

15yo Babar Azam from Pakistan is on 61* against WI.


I'll say he's actually 18.

[MRobbo]

Games are underway on Day 1

Afghanistan 5/51(27ov) vs India (India won toss)

Canada 4/87(29ov) vs Zimbabwe (Canada won toss)

Ireland 4/80(27ov) vs South Africa (South Africa won toss)

Pakistan 2/138(29ov) vs West Indies (West Indies won toss)

[Spikey]

And the 15yo tons up.

Was looking through the other scorecards and noticed Ben Ackland from Ireland was 20. U19 WC...?

[Spikey]

Trevon Griffith (WI) 68 from 38....

[mayhem20202]

Anyone know the age qualifications, or whether Ireland get exemptions to play older players?

[Santana]

Who the hell is updating the West Indies games? West Indies beat Pakistan by 40 runs? Umm, no they didn't. Same thing happened for the Australia game. For about 20 seconds I was trying to workout how we lost.

[Santana]

And the 15yo tons up.

Was looking through the other scorecards and noticed Ben Ackland from Ireland was 20. U19 WC...?

Anyone know the age qualifications, or whether Ireland get exemptions to play older players?

I was reading an article on the tournament just before and saw this:

"The youngest and the oldes: Pakistan's Babar Azam - at 15 years and 91 days - is the youngest player in the fray, and Naseer Jamali of USA - at 20 years and 126 days - is the oldest. (Associate nations get a year's grace on the age norm.)"

[mayhem20202]

I was reading an article on the tournament just before and saw this:

"The youngest and the oldes: Pakistan's Babar Azam - at 15 years and 91 days - is the youngest player in the fray, and Naseer Jamali of USA - at 20 years and 126 days - is the oldest. (Associate nations get a year's grace on the age norm.)"

Thanks mate.

[The Master88]

Australia is playing the USA right now

Australia is 2/114(21ov)

[alfy!]

Pretty decent start. Hope we can get 250+.

[The Master88]

You can hear the NZ vs Canada game at this website

http://www.radiosport.co.nz/

[Chris25]

Australia is playing the USA right now

Australia is 2/114(21ov)

Ended up being bowled out for 262 after 49.3 overs.

Josh Hazlewood and Alistair McDermott batting at 9 and 10 makes for a pretty long tail. Someone like Kane Richardson would have been a handy inclusion in the lower order....

Sort of get the feeling that unless Marsh does something in the middle order, we might see a few more mini collapses like this one (last 7 wickets for 90). But having said that, the bowlers should be far too strong for the American batsmen anyway.

Not surprisingly England and New Zealand are having pretty easy matches against Hong Kong and Canada respectively.

[benz1]

Was actually at the Australia v. Bangladesh game in NZ. The Banga's looked very good, they have two spinners that looked very Dangerous.

Mitch Marsh was one of the main reasons I went to the game and he didnt disappoint early, hit one of the cleanest sixes I've ever seen. He just played through the line of the ball, didnt follow through at all, just punched it over the sight screen, was amazing, unfortunately he ran past one shortly after and started a mini collapse for the aussies.

[Cleavy]

USA 7/28 after 10 overs atm

[The Reaper]

On paper this has to be one of our stongest U19 teams

[Santana]

Slightly disappointing that after having them 7/28 they went on to make 154.

But at least the other bowlers got some overs in. At one point I thought Hazlewood & McDermott where going to go right through them in their opening spell together.

[Santana]

Forget about AFL Keath, Cricket is where you belong! ;)

[aussie1st]

Keath looks a good talent, Armstrong also showing his all round skills. Richardson in the wickets again.

[MRobbo]

Updates from todays games

Zimababwe 6/28(16ov) vs Sri Lanka (34ov game)

Hong Kong 4/44(18ov) vs India (34ov game)

West Indies 8/249(50) vs Bangladesh 1/42(11)

Australia 5/274(50)(Keath 88,Armstrong 73*,Beaton 55) vs Ireland 3/40(13)

[Santana]

Richardson & Buchanan both with 3 wickets now.

[MRobbo]

Zimababwe 7/73(26ov) vs Sri Lanka (34ov game)

Hong Kong 7/106(29ov) vs India (34ov game)

West Indies 8/249(50) vs Bangladesh 4/88(23)

Australia 5/274(50) vs Ireland 9/65(24)

[MRobbo]

Australia are through to the Quarter Finals

Ireland all out 65(24.2 overs)

Australia won by 209 runs

Buchanan 4/16(6)
Richardson 3/23(7)
Armstrong 2/6(2.2)

Australia play South Africa in final group game for top spot in the group on Wednesday

[alfy!]

Huge victory. Now onto some interesting games, first with South Africa.

[aussie1st]

Nice to see Armstrong grab some wickets. Richardson must be in the best 11.

[Selective Retention]

On paper this has to be one of our stongest U19 teams

Looking at the squads in hindsight there are players in every squad that go on and forge a good international career. A lot of them have a couple of internationals and fall away pretty quickly after that with a number that don't even crack into state cricket.

The 99/00 squad is pretty solid in its depth. Combined with 99 AFL draft, there were a lot of talented kids around that year!

Clarke, Watson, Johnson, S.Marsh, McDonald and Hauritz all Australian reps.

Hartley, O'Brien, Rofe, Cowan all have had reasonable domestic careers.

Batticciotto has popped up just recently as well. A long time in the wilderness for him. Buchanan and Welsford were the others in the team, both played a handful of games for the Vics. And Matthew Baker, there's one that didn't make it to state level.

[MRobbo]

WI 8/249(50) def Bangladesh 248(49.4) by 1 run. Last wicket was a run out.

[aussie1st]

Sounds like a rewatch SA runout 99 and you get the picture.

[dajesmac]

Would Aamer qualify for the U19 World Cup? I mean to say are you still eligible once youve been selected in the proper national side? He's still got next year aswell.

[dajesmac]

Yeah I looked over that scorecard several times and i could not see any point where the Windies would have won with that score.

Duckworth Lewis gets it right again :)

id say the game was cut to 44 overs and the target reduced to 263, which they got, rather than it having rained when they were on that score.

But still 54 runs for just 6 overs is a rip off.

[YOTC]

id say the game was cut to 44 overs and the target reduced to 263, which they got, rather than it having rained when they were on that score.

But still 54 runs for just 6 overs is a rip off.
You do realise it was a printing error and Australia won the game?

There was no way under any D/L system that the West Indies target was going to be 263. Not any over, not any wicket, not any time.

If it rained at the break and it was reduced to 44 overs, they would have been chasing around 6.5 an over (Australia scored at 6.4). So immediately 263 is not even close, being just under 6 an over. Duckworth would have had them chasing about 290.

Duckworth Lewis is good, please read before you comment next time :)

[J Selwood14]

Would Aamer qualify for the U19 World Cup? I mean to say are you still eligible once youve been selected in the proper national side? He's still got next year aswell.
he would be eligible but there is not much point in selecting him
Pakistan have a player who has played some ODI

[Cousin Jed]

Australia 7/276 from its 50 overs against South Africa

Keath 64 off 97
Floros 96 off 97
Armstrong 48 off 43

[Santana]

This is pretty poor from the bowlers so far. SA should win from here.

[Cousin Jed]

SA need 44 from 49 balls with 3 wickets in hand

Keath with a good all round performance

[mayhem20202]

This is pretty poor from the bowlers so far. SA should win from here.

What is poor from bowlers? Are you going to update the score? Or, are we just supposed to know what you are talking about?

[Cousin Jed]

19 runs off 20 balls with 2 wickets in hand

[Offsider]

Keath looks to be having a good World cup, will have to choose between cricket and AFL, he has presigned with the Gold Coast already, tough decision.

[Cousin Jed]

7 runs needed off the last over, 2 wickets in hand

Hazelwood who has been less than impressive to bowl.

[DeadlyAkkuret]

It's amazing how much I can hate the Saffers even if it's only U19s and I have no idea who their players are.

[pluga_4]

ok is it over yet ?

result, fella's ??

[Cousin Jed]

SA won by 2 wickets with 2 balls to spare

4|.|.|4 in the last over

Scorecard (http://iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net/matchesandscores/saau2001_full_scorecard.html?filename=saau2001&classname=score_card)

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Pretty average effort from the bowlers there.

[pluga_4]

quarter finals :

new zealand v australia
south africa v sri lanka
pakistan v india/england
west indies v india/england

[Chris25]

Another solid performance from Kane Richardson, has taken 3 wickets in each of his two games. And that is in addition to a couple of useful knocks with the bat too.

So far they have rotated the players a fair bit, will be interesting to see if they do so even in the finals. Maddinson should return to the top of the order, while Buchanan for Hazlewood could be on the cards too.

On a side note, Kraigg Brathwaite has an average of 90 from his three games so far. Things are looking good for the young contracted West Indian....

[Santana]

What is poor from bowlers? Are you going to update the score? Or, are we just supposed to know what you are talking about?

http://iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net/matches-ticketing/fixtures-results.html

This gives you live scores for all the games. It updates pretty well too.

The Australia/NZ Quarter Final game won't be live on TV by the way everyone. :(

[aussie1st]

Wish Sky TV NZ would get off their arse and broadcast the QF.

[Cousin Jed]

Wouldn't be allowed by ICC.

[aussie1st]

Seems pretty silly to me given no one is broadcasting it.

[cooney]

Foxsports is starting coverage tomorrow

[MRobbo]

England 4/79(25) vs India


Quarter Finals Fixtures (all game begin at 8:30am AEDT)

Saturday January 23
(Winner India/England) vs West Indies at Mainpower Oval, Rangiora
Pakistan vs (Loser India/England) at Bert Sutcliffe Oval,Lincoln (Live on Fox Sports 3 from 8:15am AEDT)

Sunday January 24
South Africa vs Sri Lanka at Bert Sutcliffe Oval,Lincoln (Live on Fox Sports 3 from 8:15am AEDT)
New Zealand vs Australia at Mainpower Oval, Rangiora


Plate Quarter Finals (Positions 9-16)

Saturday January 23
Canada vs USA at McLean Park,Napier
Ireland vs Zimbabwe at Nelson Park,Napier

Sunday January 24
Bangladesh vs Hong Kong at McLean Park,Napier
Afghanistan vs Papua New Guinea at Nelson Park,Napier

[Damon_3388]

I noticed something while watching a bit of the England/India game this morning - I'm nearly 22 years old, and I'm not a total "babyface" (just look my age really), but half of the players in that game looked my age or older, despite supposedly being 4-5 years younger than me :p

[happy_eagle]

Good to see Mt Lawly's Tom Beaton in amongst the runs (well in the first two matches at least). He and Mitch Marsh will be very solid for WA (and perhaps Australia) in years to come

[lewigie]

Really reallyy good match about to end now.

[Santana]

India and England both knocked out. Pakistan and the West Indies to play each other in the semi finals.

[larrikin]

Are they only filming one of the games at a time? Surely the NZ/Aus game would've been a better option.

Anyway, Aus 4/148 off 30. Marsh run out for 53.

[Bradesmaen]

Why isn't Kane Richardson playing. Leading Aussie wicket taker and a decent All rounder. Would have been better than Hazlewood he's being spanked lately.

[Santana]

Australia 232 for 8 after 50 overs.

A big game from Hazlewood here would be very timely.

[Santana]

Are they only filming one of the games at a time? Surely the NZ/Aus game would've been a better option.

Anyway, Aus 4/148 off 30. Marsh run out for 53.

The Australia/New Zealand isn't being played at Bert Sutcliffe Oval. They're only showing games at that ground. If Australia win today you'll get to see them in the semi finals.

[larrikin]

They really struggled in the middle to late overs.

Hope that's enough runs

[Spikey]

MR Marsh run out (Boam)
AR Keath run out (Boam)
TIF Triffitt run out (MG Bracewell)

Are we Pakistan in disguise?

[larrikin]

The Australia/New Zealand isn't being played at Bert Sutcliffe Oval. They're only showing games at that ground. If Australia win today you'll get to see them in the semi finals.
Cheers

[mattys123]

NZ 2/58 after 15.5 overs.

Run rate is a little slow at only 3.66 (need 4.64 over 50 overs).

Doran and Floros got the wickets for the Aussies.

http://iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net/matchesandscores/nzau2401_full_scorecard.html?filename=nzau2401&classname=scorecard

Live score updates.

[aussie1st]

Interesting enough the host country isn't even showing the match with coverage.

Who would have thought our spinners would do the early damage.

[mattys123]

Floros gets his second wicket, giving away some runs is the Canberra boy, but taking wickets is everything for a spinner.

3/71 after 19, Aussies favs at the moment.

[Bomber Bears]

Interesting that the bug names from the Australian side havent really performed thus far.

I got that Tim Armstrong guy out once:) Seemed like a good bloke at the time as well

[Cousin Jed]

Hazelwood has come back after a good opening spell and picked up 2 wickets.

5/89 after 23.

[mattys123]

6/96, NZ almost gone now.