India are placed in the toughest group along with West Indies, South Africa and Papua New Guinea and will fight it out for in the Super League of the U/19 Cricket World Cup.
India enter tourney in toughest group featuring West Indies, South Africa
KUALA LUMPUR: India are placed in the toughest group (group B) along with West Indies, South Africa and Papua New Guinea (PNG) and will fight it out for just two places in the Super League of the U/19 Cricket World Cup (CWC).
Although they won this event in 2000, India’s under-19 team has been overshadowed in the past two tournaments by their traditional rival Pakistan, which is going for a hat-trick of victories having prevailed in 2004 and 2006.
Under the guidance of former Sri Lanka and Bangladesh coach Dav Whatmore, the side will be strongly fancied to do well at the event.
Captain Viraat Kohli has made 373 runs at an average of 53 in the five first-class matches of his career to date, including a top score of 159.
Kohli had a strong domestic season, having averaged 72.67 for Delhi in last season’s Cooch Behar Trophy.
Another player in good nick is Shreevats Goswami. He has been in excellent form with the bat, scoring 104 against Bangladesh under-19 and 97 against South Africa u-19, in a triangular series in Pretoria recently.
Others to watch out for will be left-handed batsman Tanmay Srivastava, who is making a name for himself with the senior Uttar Pradesh team in the Ranji Trophy, and left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdulla.
“Hopes are high and the boys have talent,” said Kohli.
“However, all the teams are good and none should be taken lightly. It is a question of which team plays better cricket than the other on the big day,” he said.
And with the likes of Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif and Piyush Chawla amongst the stars who have gone on to senior honours after playing at this event, the eyes of India will be on Malaysia to see who will be the stars of the future.
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