Average ages of cricket teams World Cup, 2011 |Youngest, oldest players

Olden Australia

Just like the case in the previous World Cup tournament, this time also Australian cricket team has the highest average of ages of players. Average age of the Australian team is 29 years and 349 days. Offcourse comparing with its average in previous World Cup of 30.867 years, this time it is less. In the current cricket team of Australia, Steven Smith of age 21 years and 256 days is the only player of age below 25 years.  There are nine players in the age group of 26 to 29. Five players are aged more than 30 years. Captain Ricky Ponting‘s age is 36 years and 56 days and he is the oldest player in the Australian team.

Team India 5-5-5

Indian cricket team participating in the World Cup can be classified into 3 categories of equal number of players based on their ages. Team can be classified into 3 categories based on the age ranges of players with ages falling below 25 years, 25 to 30 years and above 30 years. Each category has five players. Piyush Chawla of age 22 years and 51 days is the youngest player of the cricket team. Sachin Tendulkar of age 37 years and 295 days is the oldest player of the team. Next oldest player is Zaheer khan with an age of 32 years and 129 days. Average of the Indian team is 28 years and 151 days.

Teen Bangladesh

Bangladesh is the youngest team participating in the World Cup, 2011. Average age of the team is 23 years and 279 days. No other cricket team has average age below 26 years. Twelve members of Bangladesh cricket team are of ages below 25 years. Another three members fall under the category of below 29 years. Rubel Hossain with age 21 years and 2 days is the youngest player of the team.

Oldest player playing in the tourney

In the World Cup, 2011 oldest player of all the teams belongs to Canada. He is John Davison. His age is 40 years and 280 days. No other player of any cricket team, playing in this world cup has got age more than 40 years. John Davison had the record of making fastest century in the World Cup, 2003.

Youngest player playing in the tourney

Nitish Kumar of Canada is the youngest player of all the teams playing in this World Cup. His age is 16 years and 268 days. In Canada team, there are two more players below 20 years. One is Ravindhu Gunasekhara of age 19 years and 208 days. Another one is Hiral Patel of age 19 years and 187 days. Out of the five teenage players playing the tourney, three belong to Canada team only. Ahmed Shehjadh of Pakistan and George Dhakrel of Ireland are the other players.