Young Turks - 8 - Ravindu Jadeja

IPL Team - Rajasthan Royals

Ranji Trophy Team - Saurashtra

IPL Performance - Has been most impressive as a lower order batsman and brilliant fielder.

Features - Confident striker of the ball who has shown he can bat to the situation as well. Excellent fielder and in fact he started off as a left-arm spinner

Concerns - His bowling seems to have taken a back-seat

Suggestions - Can make a great finisher in the future - batting at 6,7 in ODIs. May not find a place immediately but should be part of the plan in 3-4 years' time.

Young Turks - 7 - Pragyan Ojha

IPL Team - Deccan Chargers

Ranji Trophy Team - Hyderabad

IPL Performance - One of the rare positives in the bowling for Deccan Chargers. The way he held Dhoni was very impressive. Can fire the ball in well into the blockhole too. Gets good turn (remember the Kallis dismissal ?) and can stick to a plan. Can vary his line.

Strengths - Smooth Action, Good Turn, Temperament.

Concerns - Hasnt shown ability to flight the ball or the arm ball. But it could just be that he was not wanting to experiment here. Fielding could be an issue.

Suggestions - He could possibly make his debut now that Harbhajan is out with a ban. If not, he should still be in the selector's long term plans. Since he is a left-arm spinner that is good as he will complement the leg-spin of Chawla and off-spin of Harbhajan once Kumble retires.

Young Turks - 6 - Vijay Kumar Yomahesh

IPL Team - Delhi Daredevils

Ranji Trophy Team - Chennai

IPL Performance - Has been consistently picking up wickets, most importantly BIG wickets although his economy rate could vary from game to game

Features - seems to have a very good yorker, can get bounce, can move the ball off the seam and decent pace.

Concerns - None, really, except he could perhaps add a yard of pace and work harder to be the finished product

Suggestions - Not quite there yet especially given India's plentiful fast bowling resources at the moment, but should be nurtuted well, so that in 2-3 years he could break into Team India - not only in limited overs cricket but also in Test cricket and play for a long time

Young Turks - 5 - Swapnil Asnodkar

IPL Team - Rajasthan Royals

Ranji Trophy Team - Goa

IPL Performance - Stunned everybody by appearing out of nowhere to thrash all bowlers all around the park. Before the IPL he had a strike rate of about 40-odd in limited overs cricket !

Features - Is unafraid to thrash every ball and has a more than fair range of strokes

Concerns - Has not shown yet a defensive technique, could be vulnerable under seaming conditions.

Suggestions - Keep him in the fray, probably won't quite find a place in India squad for a while at least, but his name should be at the back of the mind of selectors while considering limited overs team

Young Turks - 4 - Shreevats Goswami !

IPL Team - Bangalore Royal Challengers

Ranji Trophy Team - yet to debut, (from Bengal),

IPL Performance - Got a chance very late, but impressed with a fine fifty but more importantly superb glove work. The stumping off Kumble was awesome but the gather to get the run-out was simply exceptional. Also, importantly, he walked when the umpire gave him not out in the last game. Shows tremendous character for someone so young to walk away like that (he does rate Gilchrist as his idol)

Features - Free-flowing batting, excellent natural keeper, livewire in the field, has great character

Concerns - Not sure about his ability to hit over the top, does play dot balls in between his strokes. In short, not quite the finished product yet.

Suggestions - Let him play first class cricket for 2-3 years grooming him as a back-up keeper for Dhoni. At some point when Dhoni decides keeping is too much for him, we should have a ready replacement. Being 9 years younger to Dhoni he has more of a chance to succeed him than Karthik, Parthiv etal.

Young Turks - 3 - Manpreet Gony

IPL Team - Chennai Super Kings

Ranji Team - Punjab

IPL Performance - One of the leading wicket-takers with a decent economy rate

Features - well-built, has a very good strong action, troubled top players, gets good bounce, can bowl yorker, hits the wicket hard

Concerns - Not sure how much movement he can get

Suggestions - Enter into pool of Indian fast bowlers, introduce him to international cricket through limited overs cricket some time next year

Young Turks - 2 - Abhishek Nayyar

IPL Team - Mumbai Indians

Ranji Trophy Team - Mumbai

IPL Performance - Consistent and crucial 30s in the middle of the innings at a great strike rate including clean hits, useful bowler and good fielder

Suggestion - Draft in Indian limited overs team within the next year as a batting all-rounder or even as a pure batsman in the middle order

Young Turks - 1 - Yusuf Pathan

Starting a series on the young turks who have featured in the IPL and who hold promise as future India stars. Today, I start off with Yusuf Pathan !

What a series this lad is having ! 3 half centuries and several other crucial innings - coming at a strike rate of about 200 !, the record for the quickest fifty, plus a few wickets, but looking beyond stats, this guy really looks like he can hit the ball a long long way ! And the hitting is clean and straight ! He has played for India in the T20 World Cup final. Definitely a candidate for Team India at least in limited overs cricket in the immediate future.

Who would you like to see listed in the young turks category next ? Let us have your opinions.