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Players of India celebrate with the ICC U19 Men's World Cup Trophy following the ICC U-19 Men's Cricket World Cup Final match between England and India at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. (ICC) 토토사이트 검증

PART 1: The Under-19 World Cup has always had a certain charm, of bands of boys hitherto unknown even in their cities or states, forget countries, coming together to vie for a global title so early in their lives, as India have just done for the fifth time.

Over the years, egged on by big broadcast eyeballs and bigger marketing budgets chasing them, the tournament has also come to acquire immense hype. For the 2018 edition, the broadcaster ran a campaign titled ‘Greatness Begins Here’. But does greatness really begin at the U-19 level?

Also Read: PART 2 |Winning 2012 U-19 WC was to be high point of career: Kamal Passi

The Indian Express looked at the senior careers of the 178 players who have been part of India’s junior World Cup teams, excluding the current edition. Fifty-one of them have gone on to play for India. Even if we leave out a couple of recent squads to allow for youngsters still finding their way in senior domestic cricket, it still means almost two-thirds of junior India cricketers have not made it to the senior national team.

Even among the 51 who have graduated successfully to seniority, 26 -- more than half -- have played 25 or fewer white-ball international games (ODIs and T20Is combined).

The picture is starker when it comes to Test cricket. Nearly three-fourths of these 51 double internationals – 37 – have played 25 or fewer Test matches. In fact, 16 haven’t played a single Test.