As I am a big cricket fan, I watched the finals of the Under 19 Boys world championship between Australia and India. Congratulations to the Indian cricket team for winning it four times in the past 20 years or so.

Given my interests in data mining and also cricket, I dug up more facts about the results of the Under 19 tournaments and how many players from those teams managed to play for Indian Senior team.

The numbers are quite interesting.

50% of the team has come from Under 19 teams. Here is an example with the current T20 team:

Played Under 19 World Cup for India:

1. Virat Kohli
2. Rohit Sharma
3. Shikhar Dhawan
4. Dinesh Karthik
5. Kuldeep Yadav
6. Manish Pandey
7. Lokesh Rahul
8. Suresh Raina

Did Not Play Under 19 World Cup for India:

1. M.S.Dhoni
2. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar
3. Hardik Pandya
4. Axar Patel
5. Sharadul Thakur
6. Jasprit Bumrah
7. Yuzvendra Chahal

As I have been following the Indian U19 cricket team during the cricket world cup, I also noticed the seven players here picked up for IPL teams:

1. Prithvi Shaw
2. Kamalesh Nagakoti
3. Shivam Mavi
4. Shubman Gill
5. Abhishek Sharma
6. Manjot Kalra
7. Ankul Roy

Here is my guess on the players from this India U19 team, not listed above, who will make it to the India Senior team within the next ten years:

1. Ishan Porel
2. Shiva Singh