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Fact : Aussie attitude is to keep talents like Mathew Hayden, Michael Hussey limited to first class cricket before allowing them to play at International level. Youngest Aussie to play test cricket was Ian Craig (right handed batter), at the age of 17 years & 239 days, way back in 1953.

Fact : Indian & Pakistani attitude is opposite - they throw an emerging talent at the top level & let the cricketer learn his craft or dissolve in darkness. youngest Indian & Pakistani to play test cricket for his country were Sachin Tendulkar at age of 16 years (+205 days) Hasan Raja at 14 years (+227 days) respectively. Present Indian oneday squad selected for Australian triseries has 8 out of 15 who played under-19 world cup representing India just a few years ago. now they're on the biggest screen & world is watching..

From 17 February to 2nd March 2008, next aka (7th) under 19 cricket world cup will be played at 7 venues in 3 cities (Johor, Kuala Lumpur & Penang) in country of Malaysia and if nothing - true cricket fans should get the first glimpse of upcoming cricket stars in this 15 day tournament. Itsonlycricket, in following, like always, brings you all the information you might need to watch this biggest cricket festival Malaysia has ever hosted. I must add here that 3 years of cricket blogging has many times showed me the enthusiasm Malaysia has in cricket, although they are just a associate member of ICC, not test or even an ODI member.

Live telecast channels
Under nineteen world cup comes under ICC events, meaning the tv channel that was showing the Twenty20 World cup in your country - should be showing this under-19 world cup as well. for example - Starcricket in India.
NoteNot every, but all matches played at Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur (including Semi-finals & Final) matches of U-19 cricket world cup will be show live by respective sports channels.

Match Schedule
16 teams, broken into 4 groups of 4. now top 2 teams from each group enters *Super League* or simply Quarterfinal. and bottom two teams go into *Plate Championship* and play separate quarterfinals. and so forth.
A 44 match tournament, spread over 15 days. following is date wise itinerary of Under/19 world cup 2008 being played in Malaysia.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Pakistan	India	Australia	England
Zimbabwe	West Indies	Sri Lanka	Bangaldesh
New Zealand	South Africa	Nepal	Bermuda
Malaysia	Papua New Gunnie	Namibia	Ireland
Date	Johor	Kuala Lumpur	Penang
17 feb	Pak v Mal	Ind v Png & Eng v Ire	Aus v Nam
18 feb	Zim v NZ	WI v SA & Bang v Ber	Sl v Nep
19 feb	Pak v NZ	Ind v SA & Eng v Ber	Aus v Nep
20 feb	Zim v Mal	WI v Png & Bang v Ire	SL v Nam
21 feb	NZ v Mal	SA v Png & Ber v Ire	Nep v Nam
22 feb	Pak v Zim	Ind v WI & Eng v Bang	Aus v SL
23 feb	All teams travel to next venues
Quarter finals
Super League, at Kuala Lumpur		Plate Championship at Johor
24 feb	B1 v D2	24 feb	A3 v C4
25 feb	D1 v B2	25 feb	C3 v A4
26 feb	C1 v A2	26 feb	B3 v D4
26 feb	A1 v C2	26 feb	D3 v B4
26 feb	Rest Day	26 feb	SF & reverse play
27 feb	Super League SF 1	27 feb	Plate Semi-final 1
28 feb	SF1 reserve day	28 feb	Plate Semi-final 2
29 feb	Super League SF2	29 feb	reverse QF
1 Mar	SF2 reserve day	1 Mar	Plate Final
2 Mar	Super League Final	2 Mar	Reserve Day

Squads
I enjoy writing about player, trust me or see our profile category for proof. but explaining 16x15=240 cricketers would be a long task I'm not in position to take up. So why not learn straight from ICC's official site words about which of under-19 player in this tournament have already made a name for themselves.

Grounds
We start with two venues in Johor state, three in Kuala Lumpur and two venues in Penang in Malaysia. then, we stick to KL & Johor Venues for Quarterfinal round of U-19 cricket world cup 2008 whereas Semi-finals & finals will be played at Kuala Lumpur cricket grounds only.
Johor : Malaysia Johor cricket association (JCA) and Temenggong Ibrahim Teachers Training College ground (MPTI) in Johor.
Penang : Penang sports club and University Sains ground.
Kuala Lumpur : Kinrara Oval, Selangor Turf Club & Bayuemas Oval.
Indian team play all 3 first round matches at Kinrara Oval ground. See schedule where I've mentioned who plays where.

Match Tickets
Contact Suresh Navaratnam at - 012 3052427 or write to Kinrara Cricket Academy : Lot 105866, Jalan BK 5A/1, Bandar Kinrara, Puchong, Selangor. Tel: 03-8070 8864, Fax: 03-8070 8804.

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