ICC U19 world cup 2022: All information you need to know

Big event for cricket future will kick start from 14^th January-2022 in West Indies. This is limited overs world cup (50 overs). Cricket fans have lot of questions related to ICC U19 world cup and following is complete list of questions and answers.

 

How many teams are participating in ICC U19 world cup 2022?

 

16 teams - Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda, UAE, West Indies, Zimbabwe

 

Group-A Bangladesh England Canada United Arab Emirates	Group-B India Ireland South Africa Uganda
Group-C Afghanistan Pakistan Papua New Guinea Zimbabwe	Group-D Australia Scotland Sri Lanka West Indies

 

What is location and schedule of ICC U19 world cup 2022?

 

Total 48 matches will be played across 4 venues in West Indies

1.     Antigua

2.     Guyana

3.     Saint Kitts

4.     Trinidad

 

Tournament will be played from 14^th January-2022 to 5^th February-2022

 

Full squads of all 16 teams participating in ICC U19 world cup 2022

 

Team : Afghanistan
Suliman Safi (c), Ijaz Ahmadzai(vc) Mohammad Ishaq(wk) Suliman Arabzai Bilal Sayeedi Abdul Hadi Bilal Tarin Shahid Hassani	Allah Noor Muhammadullah Khyber Wali Ijaz Ahmad Izharulhaq Naweed Noor Ahmad Younis Faisal Khan	Naweed Zadran Bilal Sami Nangyalai Khan Khalil Ahmad   Head Coach – Raees Ahmadzai

 

Team : Australia
Cooper Connolly (c) Tom Whitney (wk) Harkirat Bajwa Aidan Cahill Joshua Garner Isaac Higgins Campbell Kellaway Corey Miller	Nivethan Radhakrishnan William Salzmann Lachlan Shaw Jackson Sinfield Tobias Snell Jack Nisbet Teague Wyllie	Travelling Reserves: Liam Blackford Liam Doddrell Joel Davies Sam Rahaley Aubrey Stockdale   Head Coach – Anthony Clarke

 

Team : Bangladesh
Rakibul Hasan(c) Prantik Nawrose Nabil(vc) Md Fahim (wk) Mahfijul Islam Iftakhar Hossain Ifti SM Meherob Hasan Aich Mollah Tanzim Hasan Sakib	Abdulla Al Mamun Gazi Mohammad Tahjibul Islam Ariful Islam Mohammad Musfik Hasan Ripon Mondol Md Ashiqur Zaman Naimur Rohman Noyon	Reserves: Ahosun Habib Leon Jishan Alam

 

Team : Canada
Mihir Patel(c) Anoop Chima(wk) Arjuna Sukhu Ethan Gibson Gavin Niblock Gurnek Johal Singh Harjap Saini	Jash Shah Kairav Sharma Mohit Prashar Parmveer Kharoud Sahil Badin Sheel Patel Siddh Lad Yasir Mahmood	Reserves: Ayush Singh Eran Maliduwapathirana Ramanvir Dhaliwal Yash Mondkar.   Head Coach – Farouk Kirmani

 

Team : England
Tom Prest (c) Jacob Bethell (vc) James Rew (wk) Rehan Ahmed Tom Aspinwall Sonny Baker Nathan Barnwell George Bell	James Coles Alex Horton Will Luxton James Sales Fateh Singh George Thomas Josh Boyden	Reserves: Josh Baker Ben Cliff   Head Coach – Richard Dawson

 

Team : India
Yash Dhull (c) SK Rasheed (vc) Aaradhya Yadav (wk) Harnoor Singh Angkrish Raghuvanshi Nishant Sindhu Siddarth Yadav Ravikumar	Aneeshwar Gautam Dinesh Bana Raj Angad Bawa Manav Parakh Kaushal Tambe RS Hangargekar Vasu Vats Vicky Ostwal Garv Sangwan	Reserves: Rishit Reddy Uday Saharan Ansh Gosai Amrit Raj Upadhyay   Head Coach – Hrishikesh Kanitkar

 

Team : Ireland
Tim Tector (c) Diarmuid Burke (wk) Joshua Cox Jack Dickson Liam Doherty Jamie Forbes Daniel Forkin Matthew Humphreys	Philippe le Roux Scott Macbeth Nathan McGuire Muzamil Sherzad David Vincent Luke Whelan Reuben Wilson	Reserves: Robbie Millar Ryan Hunter Ewan Wilson   Head Coach – Peter Johnston

 

Team : Pakistan
Qasim Akram (c) Haseebullah (wk) Abdul Faseeh Abdul Wahid Bangalzai Ahmed Khan Ali Asfand Arham Nawab	Faisal Akram Irfan Khan Niazi Maaz Sadaqat Mehran Mumtaz Mohammad Shehzad Rizwan Mehmood Zeeshan Zameer Awais Ali	Reserves: Ghazi Ghori (wk) Mohammad Zeeshan   Head Coach – Ijaz Ahmed

 

Team : Papua New Guinea
Barnabas Maha(c) Toua Boe (wk) Junior Morea (wk) Boio Ray Sigo Kelly Malcolm Aporo Ryan Aue Oru	Katenalaki Singi Christopher Kilapat Peter Karoho Patrick Nou Rasan Kevau Karoho Kevau John Kariko	Reserves: Vele Kariko Gata Mika Api Ila   Head Coach – Carl Sandri

 

Team : Scotland
Charlie Peet (c) Tom Mackintosh (wk) Jamie Cairns Christopher Cole Aayush Dasmahapatra	Gabriel Gallman-Findlay Jack Jarvis Rafay Khan Muhaymen Majeed Ruaridh McIntyre Olly Davidson Sam Elstone	Lyle Robertson Charlie Tear Sean Fischer-Keogh   Head Coach – Gordon Drummond

 

Team : South Africa
George van Heerden(c) Kaden Solomons (wk) Liam Alder Matthew Boast Dewald Brevis Michael Copeland Ethan Cunningham Kwena Maphaka	Gerhard Maree Aphiwe Mnyanda Andile Simelane Jade Smith Joshua Stephenson Asakhe Tshaka Valentine Kitime	Reserve: Hardus Coetzer Ronan Hermann Caleb Seleka   Head Coach – Shukri Conrad

 

Team : Sri Lanka
Dunith Wellalage (c) Sadeesh Jayawardena (wk) Shevon Daniel Anjala Bandara Pawan Pathiraja Sadisha Rajapaksa Wanuja Sahan Kumara	Raveen De Silva Ranuda Somarathne Malsha Tharupathi Traveen Mathew Yasiru Rodrigo Sakuna Liyanage Vinuja Ranpul	Matheesha Pathirana Chamidu Wickramasinghe Abhisheak Liyanaarachchi   Head Coach – Mahela Jayawardene

 

Team : Uganda
Pascal Murungi (c) Munir Ismail(vc) Cyrus Kakuru (wk) Akram Nsubuga Christopher Kidega	Pius Oloka Joseph Baguma Matthew Musinguzi Ronald Omara Asaba Brian Isaac Sanyu Ategeka Ronald Opio	Ronald Lutaaya Edwin Nuwagaba Juma Miyagi   Head Coach – Ivan Thawithemwira

 

Team : UAE
Alishan Sharafu (C) Kai Smith (wk) Dhruv Parashar Punya Mehra Ronak Panoly Ali Aamer Naseer Adithya Shetty Soorya Sathish	Sailles Jaishankar Vinayak Vijaya Raghavan Aayan Khan Aryansh Sharma Jash Giyanani Shival Bawa Nilansh Keswani	Reserves: Hassan Khalid Annant Bhargava Muhammad Zuhaib Hamad Mohammed Arshad

 

Team : West Indies
Ackeem Auguste (c) Giovonte Depeiza (vc) Teddy Bishop (wk) Onaje Amory Carlon Bowen-Tuckett Jaden Carmichael McKenny Clarke Rivaldo Clarke	Jordan Johnson Johann Layne Anderson Mahase Matthew Nandu Shaqkere Parris Shiva Sankar Isai Thorne	Reserves: Anderson Amurdan Nathan Edward Andel Gordon Vasant Singh Kevin Wickham.   Head Coach – Floyd Reifer

 

Team : Zimbabwe
Emmanuel Bawa (c) Brian Bennet (vc) Steven Saul (wk) David Bennet Victor Chirwa Mgcini Dube Alex Falao	Connor Mitchell Matthew Schonken Panashe Taruvinga Matthew Welch Rogan Wolhuter Ngenyasha Zvinoera Tendekai Mataranyika Tashinga Makoni	Reserves: Aishah Chibanda Luyanda Mtomba Tadiwanashe Mwale Declan Rugg Tanaka Zvaita   Head Coach – Prosper Utseya

 

Overall U19 World Cup Most Titles

 

India (4) – 2000, 2008, 2012, 2018

Australia (3) – 1988, 2002, 2010

Pakistan (2) – 2004, 2006

England (1) – 1998

South Africa (1) – 2014

West Indies (1) – 2016

Bangladesh (1) – 2020

 

Important news related to U19 World Cup

 

Afghanistan's late arrival into West Indies due to visa issues has forced the ICC to change the fixtures in Group C for the 2022 U-19 World Cup, to be held in the West Indies.

Sports franchise selection from owner perspective - Lucknow IPL team case

 

RPSG Group won bid for Lucknow franchise with whopping INR 7090 Cr (USD 950 Mn) in October-21. There are lot of happenings in last ten days of new year 2022 with Lucknow IPL team. They selected Gautam Gambhir as team mentor, former Zimbabwe cricketer Andy Flower as main coach and India cricket Vijay Dahiya as assistant coach. They have also started their official twitter handle seeking official franchise name from cricket fans.

 

Courtsey - Lucknow official twitter

When owner or investor selects a team during sports league auction and bid for the same, there are lot of important things going on to lead that decision. Afterall, there is lot of money at stake. These points for selection are same for all kind of sports with all kinds of leagues in any part of world.

1. Cost-Revenue model

 

First important point is Cost-Revenue model for franchise over stipulated time of operations. In simple language, it is estimating total costs and total revenue for next few years of operations.

Cost is including franchise license fee, team players and support staff salaries, operational cost including all logistics arrangements like travel, hotel, sport kits, advertising-marketing fees and other administration charges.

Revenue is including broadcast rights, stadium tickets sale, title sponsorship for team, other support sponsorships, merchandizing, product promotions.

As rightly said by Mr. Sanjiv Goenka in his interview just after auction results for Lucknow bid that "Firstly, you invest a few crores for passion, you don't invest hundreds of crores for passion”. It is not only passion for sports but cost-revenue model and long-term perspective in mind.

Fantasy sports platform My11Circle has signed a deal to become official title sponsor of Lucknow team and it is estimated INR 23 Crore per year deal as per sources. Next step will be finalizing other support sponsors for the team.

 

2. Region of team and fanbase

 

Potential of region or city is important factor in decision of franchisee selection. If region or city is big, there is big fanbase. In case of Lucknow, it is part of Uttar Pradesh state of India which is biggest state by population. So, the fanbase is very high. This region has given lot of good players to India but they did not get their own IPL team earlier. So emotional connect is very high with the team.

 

3. Home Stadium facilities

 

During the season, team plays half matches at their home ground and half matches away. Ticket sales and in-stadium advertising of products are revenue streams for team franchise. So, if stadium infrastructure is modern with huge capacity, it is beneficial to franchisee. In case of Lucknow team, their official home stadium will be ‘Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium’ in Lucknow. It has seating capacity of 50,000. It is huge stadium.

 

Courtsey - Lucknow stadium facebook

4. Owner synergy with region or city

 

Every owner wants synergy or personal connect between his company or himself with region or city for which he wants team. It is important for brand recall, co-branding activities with fanbase. It is also important that fans connect well with franchisee brand.

For RPSG group for Lucknow franchise, there is lot of synergies between RPSG group and Uttar Pradesh. RPSG group company Noida Power Company Limited is doing power distribution in Greater Noida region. They have Spencer’s retail stores in various cities of Uttar Pradesh. This gives lot of synergy between RPSG group businesses and Uttar Pradesh region.

(Reference - RPSG group website)

IPL 2022 Lucknow team draft possibility

IPL 2022 teams available purse for mega auction

How much money can each franchise spend at the Mega IPL 2022 auction?

 

Indian Premier League 2022 mega auction will be carried out in February-2022. All old franchisees already declared their retention player lists. All these players are retained based on fee cap decided by IPL. These retained players will make core playing 11 so it is very crucial for all franchisees to select best available talent according to franchisee plan.

It is very unfortunate for all old franchisees to dismantle their set squad and this time there is no ‘Right to Match’ (RTM) available. Also, new franchisees like Lucknow and Ahmedabad have given option for draft to select maximum three players to make process fair for all. (Draft Players Possibility) All franchisees have already expressed their concern over dismantling of their team after few years of operation. So, there is possibility that 2022 mega auction will be last auction for next decade. There will be small auctions in every season and open trading window so that franchisees can change their squad little bit.

Budget is the main element of Mega auction. Different franchisees have different budgets based on their retained players. (Most valuable retentions) 

Below is highlight of retained players and budget available for each old franchisee. New teams have not decided yet their draft, so they are not covered in below list.

1. Mumbai Indians

Retained Player	Fee
Rohit Sharma	INR 16 Cr
Jasprit Bumrah	INR 12 Cr
Suryakumar Yadav	INR 8 Cr
Kieron Pollard	INR 6 Cr

­­­­Retention Amount spent – INR 42 Cr

Mega Auction purse available – INR 48 Cr

2. Chennai Super Kings

Retained Player	Fee
Ravindra Jadeja	INR 16 Cr
M S Dhoni	INR 12 Cr
Moeen Ali	INR 8 Cr
Ruturaj Gaikwad	INR 6 Cr

Retention Amount spent – INR 42 Cr

Mega Auction purse available – INR 48 Cr

3. Delhi Capitals

Retained Player	Fee
Rishabh Pant	INR 16 Cr
Axar Patel	INR 9 Cr
Prithvi Shaw	INR 7.5 Cr
Anrich Nortje	INR 6.5 Cr

Retention Amount spent – INR 42.5 Cr

Mega Auction purse available – INR 47.5 Cr

4. Kolkata Knight Riders

Retained Player	Fee
Andre Russell	INR 12 Cr
Varun Chakaravarthy	INR 8 Cr
Venkatesh Iyer	INR 8 Cr
Sunil Narine	INR 6 Cr

Retention Amount spent – INR 42 Cr

Mega Auction purse available – INR 48 Cr

5. Sunrisers Hyderabad

Retained Player	Fee
Kane Williamson	INR 14 Cr
Abdul Samad	INR 4 Cr
Umran Malik	INR 4 Cr

Retention Amount spent – INR 22 Cr

Mega Auction purse available – INR 68 Cr

6. Royal Challengers Bangalore

Retained Player	Fee
Virat Kohli	INR 15 Cr
Glenn Maxwell	INR 11 Cr
Mohammed Siraj	INR 7 Cr

Retention Amount spent – INR 33 Cr

Mega Auction purse available – INR 57 Cr

7. Rajasthan Royals

Retained Player	Fee
Sanju Samson	INR 14 Cr
Jos Buttler	INR 10 Cr
Yashasvi Jaiswal	INR 4 Cr

Retention Amount spent – INR 28 Cr

Mega Auction purse available – INR 62 Cr

8. Punjab Kings

Retained Player	Fee
Mayank Agarwal	INR 12 Cr
Arshdeep Singh	INR 4 Cr

Retention Amount spent – INR 18 Cr

Mega Auction purse available – INR 72 Cr

 

If the League Fee agreed with a Retained Player exceeds the relevant prescribed amount, then an amount equal to that higher League Fee shall be deducted from the relevant Franchisee’s Salary Cap.

If the League Fee agreed with a Retained Player is less than the relevant prescribed amount, then an amount equal to the relevant prescribed amount shall be deducted from the relevant Franchisee’s Salary Cap.

Best Opening pair in IPL 2022

 

Retentions for newly formed Ahmedabad and Lucknow franchisees are to be out soon. Mega auction will be held in February 2022. There are lot of speculations going on regarding players. Opening batsmen are having high importance in T20 format. Destructive opening pair is crucial during power play overs and overall performance of teams.

Most successful IPL teams are having best opening pairs. For example, Chennai Super Kings had Faf Du Plessis and Ruturaj Gaikwad or Delhi Capitals had Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan or Kolkata Knight Riders had V. Iyer and Shubman Gill or Punjab Kings had KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal. Most of retentions by franchisees are for openers like Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prithvi Shaw, V Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Mayank Agarwal.  

Due to retention rules, almost all teams need to figure out new opening pairs. Based on various scenarios, following is possible best destructive opening pair list.

1. Virat Kohli – Shikhar Dhawan

Total IPL runs – 12067, Total IPL matches – 399, Total 50s – 86, Total 100s - 7

Strike Rate – Virat Kohli-130 & Shikhar Dhawan-127

2. Virat Kohli – David Warner

Total IPL runs – 11732, Total IPL matches – 357, Total 50s – 92, Total 100s - 9

Strike Rate – Virat Kohli-130 & David Warner-140

3. Rohit Sharma – Shikhar Dhawan

Total IPL runs – 11395, Total IPL matches – 405, Total 50s – 84, Total 100s - 3

Strike Rate – Rohit Sharma-130 & Shikhar Dhawan-127

4. Rohit Sharma – David Warner

Total IPL runs – 11060, Total IPL matches – 363, Total 50s – 90, Total 100s - 5

Strike Rate – Rohit Sharma-130 & David Warner-140

5. KL Rahul – Shikhar Dhawan

Total IPL runs – 9057, Total IPL matches – 286, Total 50s – 71, Total 100s - 4

Strike Rate – KL Rahul-136 & Shikhar Dhawan-127

6. David Warner – Faf Du Plessis

Total IPL runs – 8384, Total IPL matches – 250, Total 50s – 72, Total 100s - 4

Strike Rate – David Warner-140 & Faf Du Plessis-131

7. KL Rahul – David Warner

Total IPL runs – 8722, Total IPL matches – 244, Total 50s – 77, Total 100s - 6

Strike Rate – David Warner-140 & KL Rahul-136

8. Shikhar Dhawan – Faf Du Plessis

Total IPL runs – 8719, Total IPL matches – 292, Total 50s – 66, Total 100s - 2

Strike Rate – Shikhar Dhawan-127 & Faf Du Plessis-131

9. Mayank Agarwal – Shikhar Dhawan

Total IPL runs – 7915, Total IPL matches – 292, Total 50s – 55, Total 100s - 3

Strike Rate – Shikhar Dhawan-127 & Mayank Agarwal-135

10. Aaron Finch – Shikhar Dhawan

Total IPL runs – 7789, Total IPL matches – 279, Total 50s – 58, Total 100s - 2

Strike Rate – Aaron Finch-128 & Shikhar Dhawan-127

 

For above opening pairs list, we assumed left-hand and right-hand combination. Also, Quinton De Kock availability in IPL is not sure after his retirement from test cricket so he is not considered in opening pair list. Retention list for Ahmedabad and Lucknow franchisees are not out. Above opening pair list can be changed depending on this retention by Ahmedabad and Lucknow franchisees.

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