adminABU DHABI — A total of 35 players will be returning to their national squads for the tournament after being selected more than once, as the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup begins in the United Arab Emirates this week. Topping the charts for countries boasting the most number of squad-members that have been selected again for the ICC U19 CWC are Namibia and Zimbabwe.
The two nations have selected five such players for this event, and head the table below for the most experienced squads at this World Cup.
Returnees Team Players
5 Namibia Gerhard Erasmus (captain), Jano Coetzee, Michau du Preez, Malan Kruger, Bredell Wessells
5 Zimbabwe Malcolm Lake (captain), Ryan Burl, Kieran Geyle, Luke Jongwe, Cuthbert Musoko
4 Pakistan Sami Aslam (captain), Imam-ul-Haq, Zafar Gohar, Zia-ul-Haq
4 Scotland Ross McLean (captain), Gavin Main, Andrew Umeed, Nick Farrar
3 Afghanistan Hashmatullah Shaidi, Sayed Shirzad, Younas Khan Ahmadzai
3 Bangladesh Abu Haider, Litton Kumer Das, Musaddek Hossain
3 Papua New Guinea Dogodo Bau (captain), Kabua Morea, Alei Nao
2 India Vijay Zol (captain), Akhil Herwadkar
2 West Indies Jerome Jones, Marquino Mindley
1 Australia Alex Gregory
1 England Ben Duckett
1 New Zealand Robert O’Donnell (captain)
1 Sri Lanka Anuk Fernando
The 35 players mentioned above include those already among the 182 players that have played in the ICC U19 CWC more than once.
A total of 25 players participated in both the 2010 and 2012 editions, but Hashmatullah Shaidi of Afghanistan is returning to participate in his third competition, the only player to do so.
Only six players have played 16 or more games in the competition, and with 12 under his belt already, Hashmatullah has a chance to make an impact on that list.
The first to do so was Stefan Swanepoel of Namibia. Six Nepalese players have achieved the feat, two from Ireland and one each from Scotland and Papua New Guinea.
Those that emulated Swanepoel, who played in 1998, 2000 and 2002, include Nepal’s Prem Chaudhary, Kanishka Chaugai, Paras Khadka, Basant Regmi, Raj Shrestha and Yashwant Subedi; Ireland’s Shane Getkate and Greg Thompson; Papua New Guinea’s Charles Amini and Scotland’s Moneeb Iqbal.
These statistics span all nine editions of the tournament, from 1988 to 2012.
In terms of the leading returning players at the ICC U19 CWC UAE 2014, the following table illustrates the highest run-getters turning out again this time:
Runs Batsman Country
262 Litton Kumer Das Bangladesh
232 Robert O’Donnell New Zealand
227 Ross McLean Scotland
201 Ryan Burl Zimbabwe
174 Hashmatullah Shaidi Afghanistan
158 Malcolm Lake Zimbabwe
With regards to the leading returning bowlers at the tenth edition of the ICC U19 CWC, the table below places them in descending order:
Wickets Bowler Country
11 Sayed Shirzad Afganistan
11 Zia-ul-Haq Pakistan
10 Luke Jongwe Zim
9 Hossain B’gladesh
9 Jerome Jones W/Indies
7 Gavin Mann Scotland
As with the batsmen, the bowlers mentioned above will find it a tall order to go past the all-time leading wicket-takers in this tournament, who are Australia’s Moises Henriques and Ireland’s Greg Thompson with 27 wickets each. — ICC
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