Players who represented the country after playing U19 World Cup

India clinched the under19 Cricket World Cup at Townsville beating Australia by 6 wickets. Unumukt Chand, Indian skipper, rose to the occasion scoring a timely 111. He looked in control of the situation and never panicked even once when Australian bowlers triggered a mini-collapse in the middle of the innings.

Harmeet Singh’s bowling action and the manner in which he tossed the ball was reminiscent of Bishen Singh Bedi- a champion left arm spin bowler of yesteryears. It is very rare to see the spinner having the gumption to flight the ball even in the end overs of ODI. Harmeet’s skills as a bowler impressed Ian Chappell, who feels the left arm spinner is ready for the big league. He said that Indian captain-Chand and Harmeet are ready for the big league. Bedi also was impressed with Harmeet’s temperament and expected the lad to play more first class cricket.

Let us look at the previous editions and have a look at which cricketers actually made the cut into the Indian National side in either ODI or Test Cricket.

Edition: 1988Venue: AustraliaPosition: Did not qualify for the Semi-finalsPlayers who went on to play for India: Nayan Mongia, Narendra Hirwani, Venkatpathy Raju, Pravin Amre , Subrato Banerjee

Edition: 1998Venue: South AfricaPosition: Did not qualify for the Semi-finalsPlayers who went on to play for India:Harbhajan Singh, Virender Sehwag, Amit Bhandari, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Mohammad Kaif, Laxmi Ratan Shukla.

Edition: 2000

Venue: Sri LankaPosition: WinnersPlayers who went on to play for India: Yuvraj Singh, Ajay Ratra, Y Venugopal Rao

Edition: 2002

Venue: New ZealandPosition: Semi-finalsPlayers who went on to play for India: Parthiv Patel, Irfan Pathan.

Edition: 2004

Venue: BangladeshPosition: Semi-finalsPlayers who went on to play for India: Robin Uthappa, Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, Rudra Pratap Singh.

Edition: 2006

Venue: Sri LankaPosition: Runners-upPlayers who went on to play for India:Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Piyush Chawla.

Edition: 2008Venue: Kaula Lumpur, MalaysiaPosition: WinnersPlayers who went on to play for India:Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary

Edition: 2010Venue: New ZealandPosition: Quarter-Finals

Players who went on to play for India:Jaidev Unadkat

Edition: 2012

Venue: AustraliaPosition: WinnersWaiting for a lot of players to play for India.