1988 Youth Cricket World Cup

The 1988 McDonald's Bicentennial Youth Cricket World Cup was an international cricket tournament played in Australia from 28 February to 13 March 1988. Sponsored by McDonald's, it was the inaugural edition of what is now the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and formed part of the celebrations for the Australian Bicentenary.

1988 Youth Cricket World Cup

Dates	28 February – 13 March 1988
Administrator(s)	ICC
Cricket format	Limited-overs (50 overs)
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	Australia
Champions	Australia (1st title)
Runners-up	Pakistan
Participants	8
Matches	31
Most runs	Brett Williams (471)
Most wickets	Wayne Holdsworth Mushtaq Ahmed (19 each)
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The tournament was primarily organised by the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), with only limited oversight from the International Cricket Conference (ICC).^[1] Eight teams participated, with the seven Test-playing ICC members joined by a composite team of players from ICC associate members.^[a] Australia defeated Pakistan in the final by five wickets, with England and the West Indies being the losing semi-finalists. The tournament play-offs were held at Adelaide Oval, with the other matches held at country venues in the states of New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria. Australia's Brett Williams was the leading run-scorer at the tournament, while his teammate Wayne Holdsworth and Pakistan's Mushtaq Ahmed were the joint leading wicket-takers.^[2][3]

Squads

Players at the tournament had to be 18 years or younger on 1 January 1987, restricting participation to those born before 1 January 1968.^[4]

Australia[5]	England[6]	ICC Associates[7]	India[8]
Geoff Parker (c) Huntley Armstrong Darren Berry Tim Bower Michael Collins Lachlan Ferguson Wayne Holdsworth Stuart Law Brian McFadyen Alan Mullally Darren Playle Joe Scuderi Adrian Tucker Brett Williams	Mike Atherton (c) Mark Alleyne Martin Bicknell James Boiling Simon Brown Warren Hegg Nasser Hussain Chris Lewis Peter Martin Mark Ramprakash Neil Stanley Harvey Trump Trevor Ward	Trevor Penney (c) Glen Bruk-Jackson Jesper Christiansen Tim de Leede Ethan Dube Eboo Essop-Adam Maurits Houben Nicholas Ifill Aminul Islam Niaz Kirmani Kyle Lightbourne Dean Minors Harunur Rashid Soren Sorensen	Myluahanan Senthilnathan (c) Pravin Amre Subroto Banerjee Ranjib Biswal Mohan Chaturvedi Anand Deshpande Narendra Hirwani Arjan Kripal Singh Nayan Mongia Venkatapathy Raju Janardhanan Ramdas Rajagopalan Shyamsunder Sukhvinder Tinku Kanwar Virdi
New Zealand[9]	Pakistan[10]	Sri Lanka[11]	West Indies[12]
Lee Germon (c) Andy Caddick Chris Cairns Greg de Joux Peter Dobbs Mark Douglas Aaron Gale Mark Hastings Hamish Kember Martin Kimber Simon Peterson Chris Pringle Sean Roberts Shane Thomson	Zahoor Elahi (c) Aaqib Javed Basit Ali Inzamam-ul-Haq Mohammad Nawaz Mushtaq Ahmed Rehan Kahloon Shahid Anwar Shahid Nawaz Shakeel Khan Wasim Ali Zulfiqar Ali Zulfiqar Butt	Rohan Weerakkody (c) Ajith Alirajah Rajitha Amunugama Chaminda Fernando Sanath Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Chandika Hathurusingha Romesh Kaluwitharana Chaminda Mendis Dilhan Perera Kapugama Priyantha Sanjeeva Ranatunga Johanne Samarasekera Chaminda Unantenne Sanjeewa Weerasinghe	Brian Lara (c) Jimmy Adams Kenneth Browne Rajindra Dhanraj Hermat Gangapersad Roland Holder Ridley Jacobs Nehemiah Perry Robert Samuels Trevor Samuels Sam Skeete Darwin Telemaque Dennison Thomas

Round-robin

Points table

Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	RR
Australia	7	6	1	0	0	12	4.577
West Indies	7	5	2	0	0	10	3.711
Pakistan	7	5	2	0	0	10	3.371
England	7	4	3	0	0	8	3.194
Sri Lanka	7	3	4	0	0	6	3.475
India	7	3	4	0	0	6	2.951
New Zealand	7	2	5	0	0	4	3.526
ICC Associates XI	7	0	7	0	0	0	2.969
Source: CricketArchive

• Note: run rate (adjusted to a team's full allocation of overs if all out) was used as a tiebreaker if teams finished on an equal number of points, rather than net run rate (as is now common).^[13]

Matches

28 February Scorecard

Australia  238/5 (50 overs)

v

West Indies 165 (39.5 overs)

Australia won by 73 runs Mildura City Oval, Mildura, Victoria

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28 February Scorecard

England  172/8 (50 overs)

v

India 173/8 (49.4 overs)

India won by 2 wickets Renmark Oval, Renmark, South Australia

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28 February Scorecard

ICC Associate's 163 (49.2 overs)

v

Pakistan 166/5 (35.2 overs)

Pakistan won by 5 wickets Chaffey Park, Merbein, Victoria

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28 February Scorecard

New Zealand  178/9 (50 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 166 (47.4 overs)

New Zealand won by 12 runs Berri Oval, Berri, South Australia

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29 February Scorecard

India  132 (45.3 overs)

v

Australia 136/3 (39.2 overs)

Australia won by 7 wickets Berri Oval, Berri, South Australia

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29 February Scorecard

England  205/8 (50 overs)

v

ICC Associates 175 (48.3 overs)

England won by 30 runs Mildura City Oval, Mildura, Victoria

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29 February Scorecard

West Indies  236/9 (50 overs)

v

New Zealand 202/9 (50 overs)

West Indies won by 34 runs Wentworth Oval, Wentworth, New South Wales

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29 February Scorecard

Sri Lanka  151 (48.3 overs)

v

Pakistan 152/3 (39.2 overs)

Pakistan won by 7 wickets Barmera Oval, Barmera, South Australia

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2 March Scorecard

Australia  249 (48.4 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 225 (47.4 overs)

Australia won by 24 runs Chaffey Park, Merbein, Victoria

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2 March Scorecard

England  174/7 (50 overs)

v

West Indies 111 (43.2 overs)

England won by 63 runs Renmark Oval, Renmark, South Australia

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2 March Scorecard

ICC Associates 131 (41.2 overs)

v

New Zealand 132/6 (37.3 overs)

New Zealand won by 4 wickets Loxton North Oval, Loxton, South Australia

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2 March Scorecard

Pakistan  194/7 (50 overs)

v

India 126 (39.3 overs)

Pakistan won by 68 runs Wentworth Oval, Wentworth, New South Wales

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3 March Scorecard

Australia  303/8 (50 overs)

v

ICC Associates 126 (44.2 overs)

Australia won by 177 runs Wentworth Oval, Wentworth, New South Wales

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3 March Scorecard

England  102 (41.1 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 103/6 (35.5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets Barmera Oval, Barmera, South Australia

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3 March Scorecard

India  164 (46.3 overs)

v

New Zealand 120 (45.5 overs)

India won by 44 runs Loxton North Oval, Loxton, South Australia

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3 March Scorecard

West Indies  121 (49 overs)

v

Pakistan 101 (43.4 overs)

West Indies won by 20 runs Mildura City Oval, Mildura, Victoria

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6 March Scorecard

Australia  206/7 (50 overs)

v

England 146 (49 overs)

Australia won by 60 runs Renmark Oval, Renmark, South Australia

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6 March Scorecard

Sri Lanka  231/7 (50 overs)

v

ICC Associates 184/7 (50 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 47 runs Mildura City Oval, Mildura, Victoria

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6 March Scorecard

West Indies  193/6 (50 overs)

v

India 123 (46 overs)

West Indies won by 70 runs Chaffey Park, Merbein, Victoria

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6 March Scorecard

New Zealand  198/7 (50 overs)

v

Pakistan 199/3 (46 overs)

Pakistan won by 7 wickets Loxton North Oval, Loxton, South Australia

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7 March Scorecard

Australia  254 (49.3 overs)

v

New Zealand 206/8 (50 overs)

Australia won by 48 runs Wentworth Oval, Wentworth, New South Wales

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7 March Scorecard

England  126 (46.3 overs)

v

Pakistan 70 (24.1 overs)

England won by 56 runs Chaffey Park, Merbein, Victoria

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7 March Scorecard

ICC Associates 111 (45 overs)

v

India 112/3 (29 overs)

India won by 7 wickets Berri Oval, Berri, South Australia

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7 March Scorecard

West Indies  201/8 (50 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 101 (39.4 overs)

West Indies won by 100 runs Barmera Oval, Barmera, South Australia

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8 March Scorecard

Pakistan  199 (49.4 overs)

v

Australia 167 (47.2 overs)

Pakistan won by 32 runs Mildura City Oval, Mildura, Victoria

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8 March Scorecard

England  193/6 (50 overs)

v

New Zealand 154 (44.3 overs)

England won by 39 runs Renmark Oval, Renmark, South Australia

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8 March Scorecard

West Indies  272/6 (50 overs)

v

ICC Associates 149/7 (50 overs)

West Indies won by 123 runs Wentworth Oval, Wentworth, New South Wales

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8 March Scorecard

Sri Lanka  190/9 (50 overs)

v

India 140 (28.2 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 50 runs Berri Oval, Berri, South Australia

Finals

Semi-finals

10 March Scorecard

West Indies  203/8 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 204/8 (47.5 overs)
Jimmy Adams 65 Shakeel Khan 2/37 (10 overs)		Shahid Anwar 76 Jimmy Adams 2/26 (5 overs)

Pakistan won by 2 wickets Adelaide Oval

• West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.

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11 March Scorecard

England  194 (50 overs)	v	Australia 196/3 (45.2 overs)
Nasser Hussain 58 (69) Wayne Holdsworth 2/47 (10 overs)		Brett Williams 57 (69) Mark Alleyne 1/30 (10 overs)

Australia won by 7 wickets Adelaide Oval Player of the match: Mark Alleyne (Eng)

• England won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

13 March Scorecard

Pakistan  201 (49.3 overs)	v	Australia 202/5 (45.5 overs)
Inzamam-ul-Haq 37 (69) Geoff Parker 3/36 (10 overs)		Brett Williams 108 (134) Mushtaq Ahmed 2/59 (10 overs)

Australia won by 5 wickets Adelaide Oval Umpires: Ric Evans (Aus) and Tony Crafter (Aus) Player of the match: Brett Williams (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bowl.

Notes

1. South Africa, though a full member of the ICC, was subject to a sporting boycott at the time of the tournament, and consequently did not participate. The ICC Associate XI was made of players from six countries – Bangladesh, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Zimbabwe.

References

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