England U19 legspinner Rehan Ahmed was getting the better of Ben Stokes and Alastair Cook when he was just 11 years old

 In the midst of the existential despair of England's Ashes misfortune, and the shots at an area framework that no longer appears to be equipped for training a working method into an age of Test wannabes, there is an elective story coming to fruition in Antigua this week.

One in which a group of courageous youngsters, raised on the derring-do of the best white-ball group in England's set of experiences, and decked out in similar sky-blue shirts in which their legends won the most exciting World Cup last ever, have flooded into their own worldwide last with a progression of enamoring exhibitions.

On Saturday, England's Young Lions take on India in the country's first appearance in the Under-19 World Cup last since their triumph over New Zealand in 1998. Also win or lose, assuming this most recent challenge verges on satisfying the epic semi-last against Afghanistan on Tuesday, it is probably the case that in excess of a couple of the soldiers will be prepared to continue in the strides of Graeme Swann, Owais Shah and Rob Key, the three most outstanding individuals from that prize lifting group from the earlier thousand years.

A couple, in any case, would as of now have all the earmarks of being on the road to success, not least the bright Leicestershire legspinner Rehan Ahmed, who can freely profess to have stepped through his first Exam wicket at 11 years old, and whose exceptional three-wicket over against Afghanistan - in the crunchiest match circumstance that he would be able yet have experienced in his young vocation - turned into the second that his colleagues could at long last challenge to accept.

"Those are the games you live for," Rehan tells ESPNcricinfo. "I'd much prefer have a game like that and win, than a simple success. It was enjoyable to be important for it."

Britain's 15-run winning edge does little equity to the crude risk of the challenge's end overs - pound for pound, it was apparently the most convincing 50-over challenge since that World Cup last. With four overs remaining, England appeared at last to have settled it with space in excess. Afghanistan required 43 additional runs with four wickets standing, and Rehan for once hoped to have had a piece influence job, after a uniquely free first spell and a lone wicket in quite a while second.

However at that point, crap hit the fan, and all wagers were off. The principal wad of James Sales' next over was skied to point for seemingly the match-settling wicket, just for the hitter to be reprieved by a front-foot no-ball. The subsequent free hit slipped away for five no-balls also, and when an anxious Sales was broken over long-on for six, 20 runs had been skelped from the over to change the match circumstance.