2021 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup

2021 Under-19 Asia Cup
2021 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup Logo
Dates23 December 2021 – 31 December 2021
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council (ACC)
Cricket format50-over
Tournament format(s)Round-robin, playoffs
Host(s) United Arab Emirates
Champions India (8th title)
Runners-up Sri Lanka
Participants8
Matches15
Player of the seriesIndia Harnoor Singh
Most runsIndia Shaik Rasheed (133)
Most wicketsPakistan Zeeshan Zameer (11)
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The 2021 Under-19 Asia Cup was the 9th edition of ACC Under-19 Cup. The cricket tournament was played in United Arab Emirates from 23 December 2021 to 31 December 2021. Eight teams contested in the tournament, including five full members and three qualified members.[1][2][3][4]

Teams

No. Teams Qualification method
1  India ICC Full Member
2  Pakistan
3  Bangladesh
4  Sri Lanka
5  Afghanistan
6  Kuwait Qualifiers
7    Nepal
8  United Arab Emirates

Squads

 Afghanistan[5]  Bangladesh[6]  India[7]  Kuwait[8]    Nepal[9][10]  Pakistan[11]  Sri Lanka[12]  United Arab Emirates[13]
  • Suliman Safi
  • Ijaz Ahmadzai
  • Mohammad Ishaq
  • Suliman Arabzai
  • Bilal Sayeedi
  • Allah Noor
  • Muhammadullah
  • Khyber Wali
  • Ijaz Ahmad
  • Izharulhaq Naweed
  • Noor Ahmad
  • Faisal Khan
  • Naweed Zadran
  • Bilal Sami
  • Nangyalai Khan
  • Khalil Ahmad
  • Abdul Hadi
  • Bilal Tarin
  • Shahid Hassani
  • Younis
  • Meet Bhavsar (c & wk)
  • M Umar
  • Abdul Sadiq
  • Aamir Ali
  • Abdullah Zaheer
  • Talha Hassan
  • Mohamed Raashiq
  • Mohamad Thoufiq
  • Ethan Cheran
  • Abdullah Farooq
  • Mirza Ahmed
  • Jude Saldanha
  • Zeeshan Azeem
  • Mohammad Bastaki
  • Henry Thomas
  • Habier Ali
  • Dev Khanal
  • Bibek Yadav
  • Santosh Karki
  • Arjun Kumal
  • Prakash Jaisi
  • Sher Malla
  • Gulshan Jha
  • Adil Ansari
  • Bashir Ahmed
  • Arjun Saud
  • Dipesh Kandel
  • Bibek Rana Magar
  • Tilak Raj Bhandari
  • Durgesh Gupta
  • Rahul Bhandari
  • Alishan Sharafu
  • Kai Smith
  • Dhruv Parashar
  • Punya Mehra
  • Ronak Panoly
  • Ali Aamer Naseer
  • Adithya Shetty
  • Soorya Sathish
  • Sailles Jaishankar
  • Vinayak Vijaya Raghavan
  • Aayan Khan
  • Aryansh Sharma
  • Jash Giyanani
  • Shival Bawa
  • Nilansh Keswani

Group stage

All times are in local. (UTC+04:00)

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L T NR Pts NRR Qualification
1  Pakistan 3 3 0 0 0 6 1.142 Advanced to Semi-finals
2  India 3 2 1 0 0 4 1.085
3  Afghanistan 3 1 2 0 0 2 0.158
4  United Arab Emirates (H) 3 0 3 0 0 0 −2.100
Source: Cricinfo
(H) Host
23 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
India 
282/5 (50 overs)
v
 United Arab Emirates
128 (34.3 overs)
Harnoor Singh 120 (130)
Alishan Sharafu 2/44 (5 overs)
Kai Smith 45 (70)
Rajvardhan Hangargekar 3/24 (9 overs)
India U-19 won by 154 runs
ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai
Umpires: Hemantha Boteju (SL) and Tanvir Ahmed (Ban)
Player of the match: Harnoor Singh (IND)
  • United Arab Emirates U-19 won the toss and elected to field.
23 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Afghanistan 
52 (23.1 overs)
v
 Pakistan
53/6 (16.4 overs)
Nangeyalia Kharote 15 (27)
Ahmed Khan 3/21 (6 overs)
Maaz Sadaqat 14* (46)
Noor Ahmad 3/20 (5 overs)
Pakistan U-19 won by 4 wickets
ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai
Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Shiju Sam (UAE)
Player of the match: Awais Ali (PAK)
  • Afghanistan U-19 won the toss and elected to bat.
25 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
India 
237 (49 overs)
v
 Pakistan
240/8 (50 overs)
Aaradhya Yadav 50 (83)
Zeeshan Zameer 5/60 (10 overs)
Muhammad Shahzad 81 (105)
Raj Bawa 4/56 (10 overs)
Pakistan U-19 won by 2 wickets
ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai
Umpires: Hemantha Boteju (SL) and Tanvir Ahmed (Ban)
Player of the match: Muhammad Shahzad (PAK)
  • Pakistan U-19 won the toss and elected to field.
25 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Afghanistan 
194/9 (50 overs)
v
 United Arab Emirates
54 (14.4 overs)
Allah Noor 97* (129)
Nilansh Keswani 3/24 (10 overs)
Nilansh Keswani 15 (15)
Bilal Sami 3/12 (5 overs)
Afghanistan U-19 won by 140 runs
ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai
Umpires: Naresh D'Souza (UAE) and Sarika Prasad (Sin)
  • United Arab Emirates U-19 won the toss and elected to field.
  • Pakistan U-19 qualified for Semi-final as a result of this match.
27 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Afghanistan 
259/4 (50 overs)
v
 India
262/6 (48.2 overs)
Ijaz Ahmadzai 86* (68)
Kaushal Tambe 1/25 (8 overs)
Harnoor Singh 65 (74)
Noor Ahmad 4/43 (10 overs)
India U-19 won by 4 wickets
ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai
Umpires: Sarika Prasad (Sin) and Shiju Sam (UAE)
  • India U-19 won the toss and elected to field.
  • India U-19 qualified for Semi-finals as result of this match.
27 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Pakistan 
219/8 (50 overs)
v
 United Arab Emirates
198/9 (50 overs)
Qasim Akram 50 (67)
Aayan Afzal Khan 3/44 (10 overs)
Aayan Afzal Khan 38 (32)
Qasim Akram 3/52 (9 overs)
Pakistan U-19 won by 21 runs
ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai
Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Naresh D'Souza (UAE)
  • Pakistan U-19 won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L T NR Pts NRR Qualification
1  Bangladesh 3 2 0 0 1 5 3.810 Advanced to Semi-finals
2  Sri Lanka 3 2 0 0 1 5 3.340
3  Kuwait 3 1 2 0 0 2 −3.308
4    Nepal 3 0 3 0 0 0 −1.485
Source: Cricinfo
23 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
323/5 (50 overs)
v
 Kuwait
49 (17.3 overs)
Pawan Pathiraja 86 (72)
Zeeshan Azeem 2/49 (6 overs)
Meet Bhavsar 25 (24)
Dunith Wellalage 4/2 (1.3 overs)
Sri Lanka U-19 won by 274 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Ahmed Shah Pakteen (Afg) and Waleed Yaqub (Pak)
Player of the match: Pawan Pathiraja (SL)
  • Sri Lanka U-19 won the toss and elected to bat.
24 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Bangladesh 
297/4 (50 overs)
v
   Nepal
143 (42.3 overs)
Prantik Nawrose Nabil 127* (112)
Tilak Bhandari 1/31 (6 overs)
Gulsan Jha 35 (28)
SM Meherob 2/20 (9 overs)
Bangladesh U-19 won by 154 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Iftikhar Ali (UAE)
Player of the match: Prantik Nawrose Nabil (BAN)
  • Bangladesh U-19 won the toss and elected
to bat.
25 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Bangladesh 
291 (49.2 overs)
v
 Kuwait
69 (25.3 overs)
Mahfijul Islam 112 (119)
Abdul Sadiq 3/40 (8.2 overs)
Meet Bhavsar 43 (77)
Ripon Mondol 3/10 (8 overs)
Bangladesh U-19 won by 222 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Ahmed Shah Pakteen (Afg) and Waleed Yaqub (Pak)
Player of the match: Mahfijul Islam (BAN)
  • Kuwait U-19 won the toss and elected to field.
26 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
322/4 (50 overs)
v
   Nepal
262 (47.5 overs)
Sadisha Rajapaksa 131 (119)
Mohammad Aadil Alam 2/46 (9 overs)
Arjun Saud 64 (80)
Raveen de Silva 3/35 (7 overs)
Sri Lanka U-19 won by 60 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Iftikhar Ali (UAE)
  • Sri Lanka U-19 won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Bangladesh U-19 and Sri Lanka U-19 qualified for semi finals as a result of this match.
28 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Bangladesh 
130/4 (32.4 overs)
v
Md Prantik Nawrose 45 (64)
Traveen Mathew 2/17 (6 overs)
Match abandoned due to COVID-19
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Ahmed Shah Pakteen (Afg) and Akbar Ali (UAE)
  • Sri Lanka U-19 won the toss and elected to field.
28 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Nepal   
239 (42.3 overs)
v
 Kuwait
241/9 (48.5 overs)
Basir Ahamad 56 (61)
Mirza Ahmed 3/22 (5 overs)
Meet Bhavsar 175* (149)
Gulsan Jha 3/70 (10 overs)
Kuwait U-19 won by 1 wicket
ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai
Umpires: Iftikhar Ali (UAE) and Shiju Sam (UAE)
  • Kuwait U-19 won the toss and elected to field.

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals Final
      
A1  Pakistan 125
B2  Sri Lanka 147
B2  Sri Lanka 106/9
A2  India 104/1
B1  Bangladesh 140
A2  India 243/8

Semi-finals

30 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
147 (44.5 overs)
v
 Pakistan
125 (49.3 overs)
Matheesha Pathirana 31 (33)
Zeeshan Zameer 4/32 (10 overs)
Ahmad Khan 36 (74)
Traveen Mathew 4/14 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka U-19 won by 22 runs
ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai
Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Sarika Prasad (Sin)
Player of the match: Treveen Mathew (SL)
  • Sri Lanka U-19 won the toss and elected to bat.
30 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
India 
243/8 (50 overs)
v
 Bangladesh
140 (38.2 overs)
Shaik Rasheed 90 (108)
Rakibul Hassan 3/41 (10 overs)
Ariful Islam 42 (77)
Ravi Kumar 2/22 (5 overs)
India U-19 won by 103 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Hemantha Boteju (SL) and Shiju Sam (UAE)
Player of the match: Shaik Rasheed (IND)
  • Bangladesh U-19 won the toss and elected to field.

Final

31 December 2021
9:30
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
106/9 (38 overs)
v
 India
104/1 (21.3 overs)
Yasiru Rodrigo 19* (26)
Vicky Ostwal 3/11 (8 overs)
Angkrish Raghuvanshi 56* (67)
Yasiru Rodrigo 1/12 (3 overs)
India U-19 won by 9 wickets (DLS method)
Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai
Umpires: Shiju Sam (UAE) and Tanvir Ahmed (Ban)
Player of the match: Vicky Ostwal (IND)
  • Sri Lanka U-19 won the toss and elected to bat.
  • India U-19 were set a revised target of 102 runs from 38 overs due to rain.

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