There were two players born in Kanpur playing the semi-final between India and New Zealand

Imad Wasim and Ali Asad have been here before: winning a knock-out match against Australia at an Under-19 World Cup by bowling them out for a low score

The press box gradually filled up as India advanced in the tournament and it was a packed house for the finals.There's no reason to believe that 2008 will be any different if India make the finals

It wasn’t all one-way traffic

At 20 years, Paras Khadka is playing his third Under-19 World Cup

For almost all the players involved, the Under-19 World Cup is the most publicised event they've been part of on the international circuit

For all practical purposes the Under-19 World Cup began for the teams the moment they landed in Kuala Lumpur

Jude Rose's son, Clive, is a left-arm orthodox spinner in the Australian Under-19 squad

The people of Kuala Lumpur seem blissfully unaware that a 16-team international tournament is about to take place in their city in a few days

In the Sun-Herald , Peter Roebuck writes that "It's time to have another crack at the glib Western response to the Harbhajan affair".

In the Sydney Morning Herald Nathan Bracken takes us through his preparation and execution of plans while bowling in a one-day international.

Despite a thumping return to his best form in the second half of the summer, Graeme Smith still struggles to shake off his critics and the sceptics, writes Neil Manthorp on Independent Online

Most of us are influenced - to a certain extent at least - by our parents, and they by their parents

"The best thing that the national selectors did was drop the two seniors [Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly] from the ODI squad," writes Makarand Waingankar in the Mumbai Mirror

"Wellington is supposed to be the sport's spiritual home in New Zealand," writes Tony Smith on stuff.co.nz