2021 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup

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]

2021 Under-19 Asia Cup

2021 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup Logo
Dates	23 December 2021 – 31 December 2021
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council (ACC)
Cricket format	50-over
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin, playoffs
Host(s)	United Arab Emirates
Champions	India (8th title)
Runners-up	Sri Lanka
Participants	8
Matches	15
Player of the series	Harnoor Singh
Most runs	Shaik Rasheed (133)
Most wickets	Zeeshan Zameer (11)
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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 (c) 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	Rakibul Hasan (c) Prantik Nawrose Nabil Mahfijul Islam Iftakhar Hossain Ifti SM Meherob Hasan Aich Mollah Abdulla Al Mamun Gazi Mohammad Tahjibul Islam Ariful Islam Md Fahim Musfik Hasan Ripon Mondol Ashiqur Zaman Tanzim Hasan Sakib Naimur Rohman Noyon	Yash Dhull (c) Harnoor Singh Pannu Angkrish Raghuvanshi Ansh Gosai Shaik Rasheed Anneshwar Gautam Siddharth Yadav Kaushal Tambe Nishant Sindhu Dinnesh Bana Aaradhya Yadav Raj Angad Bawa Rajvardhan Hangargekar Garv Sangwan Ravi Kumar Rishith Reddy Manav Parakh Amrit Raj Upadhyay Vicky Ostwal	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 (c) 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	Qasim Akram (c) Abdul Faseeh Abdul Wahid Bangalzai Ahmed Khan Ali Asfand Arham Nawab Awais Ali Faisal Akram Haseebullah Khan Irfan Khan Niazi Maaz Sadaqat Mehran Mumtaz Mohammad Shehzad Rizwan Mehmood Syed Zeeshan Zameer	Dunith Wellalage (c) Chamindu Wickramasinghe Shevon Daniel Sadisha Rajapaksa Pawan Pathiraja Wanuja Sahan Anjala Bandara Malsha Tharupathi Sadeesh Jayawardena Yasiru Rodrigo Raveen de Silva Matheesha Pathirana Traveen Mathew Ranuda Somarathne Abishek Liyanarachchi Vinuja Ranpul Sakuna Liyanage	Alishan Sharafu (c) 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	Sri Lanka
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: Traveen Mathew (SL)

• Sri Lanka U-19 won the toss and elected to bat.

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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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External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo