2017 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup

2017 Under-19 Asia Cup
Dates	10 – 19 November 2017
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	50-over
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin, playoffs
Host(s)	Malaysia
Champions	Afghanistan (1st Title)
Runners-up	Pakistan
Participants	8
Matches	15
Player of the series	Mujeeb Zadran
Most runs	Mohammad Taha (250)
Most wickets	Mujeeb Zadran (20)
Official website	http://www.asiancricket.org
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The 2017 Under-19 Asia Cup was an international cricket tournament was held in Malaysia from 10 to 19 November 2017.^[1] It was originally scheduled to be held in India, but it was moved after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) refused to travel to India.^[2]

Teams[]

No.	Teams	Qualification method
1	India	ICC full member
2	Pakistan
3	Bangladesh
4	Sri Lanka
5	Afghanistan
6	Malaysia	Host
7	Nepal	Winner of 2017 ACC U19 Asia Cup Eastern Qualifiers
8	United Arab Emirates	Winner of 2017 ACC U19 Asia Cup Western Qualifiers

Squads[]

Afghanistan^[3]	Bangladesh^[4]	India	Malaysia^[5]	Nepal^[6]	Pakistan^[7]	Sri Lanka^[8]	United Arab Emirates^[9]
Naveen-ul-Haq (c) Imran Mohammadi Rehmanullah Gurbaz Darwish Rasooli Nisar Wahdat Ibrahim Zadran Mujeeb Zadran Yousuf Zazai Wafadar Mohammad Qais Ahmed Azmatullah Ikram Ali Khil (w/k) Tariq Stanikzai Waqarullah Ishaq Abdul Wasi Noori	Saif Hassan (c)	Himanshu Rana (c) Abhishek Sharma (vc) Atharva Taide Manjot Kalra Salman Khan Anuj Rawat (w/k) Harvik Desai Riyan Parag Anukul Roy Shiva Singh Darshan Nalkande Vivekanand Tiwary Aditya Thakare Mandeep Singh		Dipendra Singh Airee(c) Sandeep Lamichhane Asif Skheikh Anil Kumar Saha Sandip Sunuwar Rohit Kumar Poudel Kishore Mahato Pranit Thapa Magar Sahab Alam Kamal Singh Prakash KC Jitendra Singh Bhim Sarki Rashid Khan	Hasan Khan (c) Muhammad Mohsin Khan Umair Yousaf Zaid Alam Haider Ali Rohail Nazir (w/k) Abdullah Shafique Muhammad Hammad Khan Muhammad Taha Saad Khan Ashar Qureshi Musa Khan Shaheen Afridi Muhammad Ali Munir Riaz	Kamindu Mendis(c) Jehan Daniel Krishan Sanjula Ashen Bandara Hasitha Boyagoda Thisaru Rashmika Dilshan Praveen Jayawickrama Nipu Ransika Dhananjaya Lakshan Nishan Madushanka Perera Nuwanidu Fernando Nipun Dhananjaya Randeer Ranasinghe Kalana Perera Kevin Koththigoda

Group stage[]

Pool A[]

Points table[]

Team	Pld	W	L	NRR	Pts
Bangladesh	3	3	0	+2.377	6
Nepal	3	2	1	+0.889	4
India	3	1	2	+1.257	2
Malaysia	3	0	3	-4.757	0

Matches[]

10 November 2017
Scorecard

India
310/7 (50 overs)

v

Malaysia
108 (37.1 overs)

India won by 202 runs
Kinrara Academy Oval

11 November 2017
Scorecard

Nepal
167/6 (40.1 overs)

v

Bangladesh
181/8 (39.5 overs)

Bangladesh won by 2 wickets (D/L method)
Kinrara Academy Oval

12 November 2017
Scorecard

Nepal
185/8 (50 overs)

v

India
166 (48.1 overs)

Nepal won by 19 runs
Bayuemas Oval

13 November 2017
Scorecard

Bangladesh
335/6(50 overs)

v

Malaysia
73 (26 overs)

Bangladesh won by 262 runs
Bayuemas Oval

14 November 2017
Scorecard

Malaysia
45 (15.3 overs)

v

Nepal
48/2 (5.2 overs)

Nepal won by 8 wickets
Bayuemas Oval

14 November 2017
Scorecard

India
187/8 (32 overs)

v

Bangladesh
191/2 (28.0 overs)

Bangladesh won by 8 wickets (D/L method)
Royal Selangor Club

Pool B[]

Points table[]

Team	Pld	W	L	NRR	Pts
Afghanistan	3	2	1	+2.853	4
Pakistan	3	2	1	+1.240	4
Sri Lanka	3	2	1	+0.988	4
United Arab Emirates	3	0	3	-4.964	0

Matches[]

10 November 2017
Scorecard

Pakistan
57 (20 overs)

v

Afghanistan
62/3 (9.1 overs)

Afghanistan won by 7 wickets
Kinrara Academy Oval

10 November 2017
Scorecard

United Arab Emirates
66 (22 overs)

v

Sri Lanka
68/3 (16 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets
Royal Selangor Club

11 November 2017
Scorecard

Sri Lanka
196/8 (42 overs)

v

Afghanistan
135 (33.5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 61 Runs
Bayuemas Oval

12 November 2017
Scorecard

Pakistan
299 (47.1 overs)

v

United Arab Emirates
73 (26 overs)

Pakistan won by 226 Runs
Royal Selangor Club

13 November 2017
Scorecard

Sri Lanka
141 (49.4 overs)

v

Pakistan
142/7 (32.1 overs)

Pakistan won by 3 wickets
Kinrara Academy Oval

14 November 2017
Scorecard

Afghanistan
224/3 (20 overs)

v

United Arab Emirates
90/9 (20 overs)

Afghanistan won by 134 runs
Kinrara Academy Oval

Knockout stage[]

Bracket[]

Semifinals			Final

A1	Bangladesh	274/6 (50)

B2	Pakistan	199/5 (39)
			B2	Pakistan	63 (22.1)

			B1	Afghanistan	248/7 (50)
B1	Afghanistan	108/3 (20.3)

A2	Nepal	103 (28)

Semi-finals[]

16 November 2017
Semi-final 1
Scorecard

Bangladesh
274/6 (50 overs)

v

Pakistan
199/5 (39 overs)

Pakistan won by 2 run (D/L method)
Kinrara Academy Oval

17 November 2017
Semi-final 2
Scorecard

Nepal
103 (28 overs)

v

Afghanistan
108/3 (20.3 overs)

Afghanistan won by 7 wickets
Kinrara Academy Oval

Final[]

19 November 2017
Scorecard

Afghanistan
248/7 (50 overs)

v

Pakistan
63 (22.1 overs)

Afghanistan won by 185 runs
Kinrara Academy Oval

Statistics[]

Most wickets[]

The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by bowling average.

Player	Team	Overs	Wkts	Ave	Econ	SR	BBI
Mujeeb Zadran	Afghanistan	40.1	20	5.55	2.76	12.05	6/23
Praveen Jayawickrama	Sri Lanka	18.5	11	5.27	3.07	10.27	5/17
Sandeep Lamichhane	Nepal	28.3	9	10.55	3.33	19	5/8
Mohammad Musa	Pakistan	32.0	9	13.22	3.71	21.33	3/11
Munir Riaz	Pakistan	32.0	8	17.37	4.34	24	3/30

Most runs[]

The top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.

Player	Team	Runs	Inns	Avg	Highest	100s	50s
Mohammad Taha	Pakistan	250	5	50	94	0	2
Pinak Ghosh	Bangladesh	199	4	66.33	82	0	2
Rahmanullah Gurbaz	Afghanistan	194	5	38.8	71	0	2
	Afghanistan	191	5	95.5	105*	1	1
	Bangladesh	179	4	62.67	120	1	0

Source: ACC

Final standings[]

Pos.	Team
1	Afghanistan
2	Pakistan
3	Bangladesh
4	Nepal
5	India
6	Sri Lanka
7	Malaysia
8	United Arab Emirates

References[]

^ "Under-19 Asia Cup moved out of India". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
^ "Pakistan Cricket Board has its way, U-19 Asia Cup shifted from Bengaluru to Kuala Lumpur". DNA India. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
^ "AFGHANISTAN U-19 TEAM ANNOUNCED FOR YOUTH ASIA CUP 2017". www.cricket.af. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
^ "Bangladesh U-19 Team for Asia cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
^ "Malaysia U-19 Squad for Asia cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
^ "Nepal to play ACC U-19 Youth Asia Cup in Malaysia".
^ "Pakistan U19 Team for ACC Youth U19 Asia Cup in Malaysia". Pakistan Cricket Board. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
^ "Sri Lanka U-19 Squad for Asia cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
^ "UAE U-19 Squad for Asia cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

External links[]

Series home at ESPNcricinfo

[final-1] "Under-19 Asia Cup moved out of India". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 August 2017.

[moved-2] "Pakistan Cricket Board has its way, U-19 Asia Cup shifted from Bengaluru to Kuala Lumpur". DNA India. Retrieved 14 August 2017.

[3] "AFGHANISTAN U-19 TEAM ANNOUNCED FOR YOUTH ASIA CUP 2017". www.cricket.af. Retrieved 13 November 2017.

[4] "Bangladesh U-19 Team for Asia cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

[5] "Malaysia U-19 Squad for Asia cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

[6] "Nepal to play ACC U-19 Youth Asia Cup in Malaysia".

[7] "Pakistan U19 Team for ACC Youth U19 Asia Cup in Malaysia". Pakistan Cricket Board. Retrieved 24 October 2017.

[8] "Sri Lanka U-19 Squad for Asia cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

[9] "UAE U-19 Squad for Asia cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

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