The Night Watchman

After two days of testosterone filled cricket, angry managers debating luck and tactics, we eventually got to day three of the tournament. With India and Canada facing the possibility of elimination from the tournament AB-Daveilliers South African side faced New Zealand at the Falkirk stadium. Sri Lankan assistant Foxy voiced concerns previously about the weather [...]

Group 1
Kenya U19 vs Australia U19
Australia needed to produce a positive effort and get a result on a turning pitch in order to realistically remain in the competition. It wasn’t going to be easy against a rampant Kenyan side who were still celebrating the victory against the Kiwi’s. With the toss won the Australians set [...]

Day 1, game 1 and the mood in the South African camp is one of cautious optimism. Any game at the start of a tournament is a slippery fish and this game was no different. Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were all tipped to finish within the top 3 in the group but all [...]

Group 1
Australia U19 vs Sri Lanka U19
Australia’s biggest weakness was fully exploited by Sri Lanka’s army of spinners who fully exploited the crumbling pitch in Karachi. GM-deltronzero was pulling his hair out at today’s match performance as his batting lineup was completely bamboozled by some fantastic bowling. The Sri Lankan’s look strong as a bowling [...]

Controversy surrounded the decision by the FTP Committee to award Pakistan the hosting rights to season 7’s U 19 World Cup. Protesters remonstrated outside in the streets of London and Cape Town, with the two countries being widely tipped for the right to host the event beforehand.
Now all of that has passed, the touring squads [...]

NOTE: This article was written by nathan but published by heppa due to connection problems.
The world cup is now upon us and the might of UAE will strive to go one step further then the last world cup where we were runner-ups. Many of a soul have rated UAE as absolutely no chance to contest [...]

This should be an action packed tournament with all the youngsters putting their best foot forward in hope of impressing their managers at club level as most of them will take the big step into senior cricket next season with the bulk of participants turning that magic 20 next season but also the senior national [...]

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself…
Often quoted words those, first uttered by FDR as he stood on Capitol hill all those decades ago…….
Of course what he was getting at was that even though the challenges his nation faced seemed insurmountable, there was in reality, nothing really to fear, events would take [...]

KARACHI, PAKISTAN. There will be many here who are ecstatic that Pakistan has been handed the chance to host the next edition of the U19 World Cup. Many feel that this can be the opportunity needed to show the world the class facilities that the country has to offer for international cricket. There was [...]

Hi this is coolfool. I’ve decided to write a blog on the recently concluded series between India U19 and West Indies U19. It was quite entertaining, but the winner was decided earlier than expected as India won the first two games.
1st match: 13,330 arrived at the West Indies U19 CG to cheer their team against [...]