2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
The 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was a one-day cricket competition for sixteen international U-19 cricketing teams which was held in August 2012. It was the ninth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup. The tournament was held in Australia for the second time after previously hosting it in 1988 with the tournament being held across three cities (Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Townsville).
Dates | 11 August – 26 August 2012 |
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Administrator(s) | International Cricket Council |
Cricket format | Limited-overs (50 overs) |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and knockout |
Host(s) | ![]() |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Participants | 16 |
Matches | 48 |
Player of the series | ![]() |
Most runs | ![]() |
Most wickets | ![]() |
Official website | iccu19cricketworldcup.com |
Six teams qualified from the qualifying event as they joined the full members that automatically qualified through to the World Cup. The teams were separated into four groups of four with the top two teams qualifying through to the Super League while the bottom two will compete in the Plate Championship. After finishing second in their group, India beat Australia in the final by six wickets to win their third title after previously winning in 2000 and 2008.[1] India's Unmukt Chand scored 111 not out, facing 130 balls and was awarded Man of the Final.[2] Australian captain Will Bosisto was awarded Man of the Series. Canada was originally scheduled to be the host of the event, after being selected as hosts in 2007.[3]
Qualification
16 teams participated in the competition. The 10 nations with ICC Full Membership automatically qualified for the tournament. Ten further teams competed in the qualifying event which was held in Ireland with only the top six teams qualifying through to the 2012 World Cup. Scotland (winners), Nepal, Ireland, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Namibia all finished in the top 6 to book their spot into the World Cup.
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2011 ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier (1st) |
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2011 ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier (2nd) |
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2011 ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier (3rd) |
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2011 ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier (4th) |
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2011 ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier (5th) |
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2011 ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier (6th) |
Groups
The following groups were chosen for the World Cup 2012 by the International Cricket Council. The number alongside gives the rank of the team. The tournament will begin with a league stage consisting of four groups of four. Each team will play each of the other teams in its group once.[4]
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Squads
Each country selected a 15-man squad for the tournament.
Fixtures
Fixtures as follows:-[5]
Warm-up games
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Henry Walsh 33 (38) Vincent Moore 2/19 (6 overs) |
Quinton de Kock 80* (65) Theo van Woerkom 2/40 (4.2 overs) |
- South Africa Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
Scotland ![]() 106 (37.5 overs) |
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Ross McLean 29 (66) Nasum Ahmed 4/21 (6.5 overs) |
Salman Hossain 37* (45) Gavin Main 1/18 (3 overs) |
- Bangladesh Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
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![]() 214/2 (40.3 overs) | |
Hasim Ansari 81 (80) Chad Soper 5/22 (7.3 overs) |
Lega Siaka 106 (112) Rahul Vishwakarma 2/40 (7 overs) |
- Nepal Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Angelo Jayasinghe 64* (97) Kamal Passi 3/34 (8 overs) |
- India Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Saad Ali 100 (92) Jamie Overton 3/22 (7 overs) |
Ben Foakes 133 (119) Usman Qadir 2/48 (7 overs) |
- England Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
Afghanistan ![]() 257/6 (50 overs) |
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Hashmatullah Shaidi 64 (84) Tyrone Kane 2/46 (9 overs) |
Shane Getkate 45 (60) Javed Ahmadi 3/10 (6 overs) |
- Ireland Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
Namibia ![]() 180/9 (49.2 overs) |
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Stephan Baard 36 (44) Curthbert Musoko 4/42 (10 overs) |
Kevin Kasuza 63 (69) Stephan Baard 1/14 (4 overs) |
- Namibia Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Ashton Agar 80 (70) Akeal Hosein 4/37 (10 overs) |
- Australia Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
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Brett Hutton 55 (66) Curthbert Musoko 4/39 (8.4 overs) |
Nyasha Mayavo 21 (46) Brett Hutton 3/28 (9 overs) |
- England Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Sunil Ambris 103* (58) Jason Davidson 1/40 (8 overs) |
Jano Coetzee 89 (123) Ronsford Beaton 4/43 (9 overs) |
- West Indies Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Pabasara Waduge 29 (35) George Dockrell 2/18 (10 overs) |
Ryan Hunter 55 (99) Tharindu Kaushal 6/20 (8.3 overs) |
- Sri Lanka Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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James Peirson 128* (123) Aman Bailwal 5/52 (10 overs) |
Mathew Cross 104 (70) Gurinder Sandhu 5/51 (10 overs) |
- Australia Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Baba Aparajith 83 (75) Shabir Noori 4/45 (10 overs) |
Shabir Noori 62 (74) Harmeet Singh 5/32 (10 overs) |
- India Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
Papua New Guinea ![]() 194/6 (50 overs) |
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Lega Siaka 46 (77) Usman Qadir 3/32 (10 overs) |
Sami Aslam 132 (99) Raymond Haoda 1/30 (6 overs) |
- Pakistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
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Naresh Budhayer 114 (142) Arnie Yugaraja 3/25 (4 overs) |
- New Zealand Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Al-Amin 60 (73) Vincent Moore 2/5 (5 overs) |
Chad Bowes 104* (145) Al-Amin 2/44 (10 overs) |
- Bangladesh Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
Group stage
- The top 2 teams from each group qualified for the knock-out rounds of the tournament.
- The bottom 2 teams from each group take part in a Plate competition knock-out.
Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2.208 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.906 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.468 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2.353 |
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Craig Overton 35 (81) Gurinder Sandhu 3/27 (9.3 overs) |
- Australia Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Tyrone Kane 28 (52) Reece Topley 3/14 (9 overs) |
Ben Foakes 32 (45) Tyrone Kane 1/14 (5.2 overs) |
- England Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Cameron Bancroft 125 (139) Pradeep Airee 2/40 (5 overs) |
Sagar Pun 22 (39) Ashton Turner 4/28 (5.5 overs) |
- Nepal Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
- Harry Conway (Australia Under-19s) took a hat-trick.[6]
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Ryan Hunter 31 (139) Alex Gregory 3/13 (8 overs) |
- Ireland Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
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Shane Getkate 47 (81) Rahul Vishwakarma 2/31 (10 overs) |
Rahul Vishwakarma 32 (44) George Dockrell 4/22 (10 overs) |
- Ireland Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
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Ben Foakes 92 (84) Rahul Vishwakarma 3/62 (9 overs) |
Subash Khakurel 55 (70) Shozair Ali 4/37 (10 overs) |
- England Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.877 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | −0.215 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.713 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −0.782 |
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Hashmatullah Shaidi 50 (77) Zia-ul-Haq 4/30 (8.1 overs) |
- Afghanistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Will Young 115 (111) Ruaidhri Smith 3/34 (10 overs) |
Freddie Coleman 65 (80) Connor Neynens 3/24 (10 overs) |
- Scotland Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
Scotland ![]() 200 (49.5 overs) |
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- Scotland Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
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Robert O'Donnell 69 (102) Sayed Shirzad 4/34 (10 overs) |
Najibullah Zadran 69 (91) Matt Quinn 4/26 (9 overs) |
- New Zealand Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
Afghanistan ![]() 191 (48.3 overs) |
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Javed Ahmadi 71 (76) Gavin Main 4/26 (8 overs) |
Ross McLean 67 (109) Sayed Shirzad 3/33 (10 overs) |
- Afghanistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
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Henry Walsh 33 (61) Ehsan Adil 2/21 (10 overs) |
Imam-ul-Haq 40 (71) Theo van Woerkom 2/43 (8 overs) |
- New Zealand Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
Group C
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.750 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.067 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.147 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2.718 |
Zimbabwe ![]() 249 (50 overs) |
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Kevin Kasuza 97 (121) Christopher Kent 5/45 (7 overs) |
Sese Bau 34 (34) Matthew Bentley 2/20 (7 overs) |
- Papua New Guinea Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Smit Patel 51 (99) Ronsford Beaton 3/33 (10 overs) |
Anthony Alleyne 52 (91) Harmeet Singh 3/35 (10 overs) |
- West Indies Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
Papua New Guinea ![]() 116 (41 overs) |
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Christopher Kent 39 (62) Kyle Mayers 3/12 (4 overs) |
Sunil Ambris 91 (43) Sese Bau 1/6 (0.4 overs) |
- Papua New Guinea Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
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Malcolm Lake 118 (107) Kamal Passi 6/23 (8.1 overs) |
- Zimbabwe Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Vijay Zol 72 (95) Chad Soper 5/32 (7.1 overs) |
Charles Amini 28 (18) Ravikant Singh 5/21 (9 overs) |
- India Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
Zimbabwe ![]() 148/8 (50 overs) |
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Malcolm Lake 31 (45) Justin Greaves 2/28 (6 overs) |
Group D
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2.987 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | −0.336 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.683 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3.234 |
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Anamul Haque 101 (127) Sanitha de Mel 3/46 (10 overs) |
Angelo Jayasinghe 83 (121) Soumya Sarkar 3/10 (1.4 overs) |
- Sri Lanka Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Quinton de Kock 95 (131) Noor Hossain 3/44 (10 overs) |
Anamul Haque 39 (60) Vincent Moore 3/44 (10 overs) |
- Bangladesh Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Sebastian Perera 69 (84) Zhivago Groenewald 3/49 (9 overs) |
Wian van Vuuren 38 (80) Lahiru Madushanka 4/15 (6 overs) |
- Sri Lanka Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
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Quinton de Kock 126 (106) Zhivago Groenewald 3/85 (9 overs) |
Pelham Myburgh 37 (82) Theunis de Bruyn 4/20 (5 overs) |
- South Africa Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
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Pulina Tharanga 50* (60) Corné Dry 4/16 (8 overs) |
Chad Bowes 46 (51) Tharindu Kaushal 3/28 (10 overs) |
- South Africa Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
Namibia ![]() 151 (49.4 overs) |
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Stephan Baard 40 (70) Abu Jayed 3/29 (8 overs) |
- won the toss and elected to bat
Plate Championship
9th place play-off quarter-finals | 9th place play-off semi-finals | 9th place play-off | ||||||||
19 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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21 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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19 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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24 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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20 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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22 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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20 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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24 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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Quarter-finals | 13th place play-off semi-finals | 13th place play-off | ||||||||
21 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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21 August – ![]() | ||||||||||
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9th place play-off quarter-finals
Papua New Guinea ![]() 239/5 (50 overs) |
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Christopher Kent 105* (117) °Aftab Alam 2/41 (10 overs) |
Mohibullah Oryakhel 58* (47) Charles Amini 2/29 (8 overs) |
- Papua New Guinea Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
Scotland ![]() 241/7 (50 overs) |
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Nicholas Farrar 58 (83) Luke Jongwe 2/31 (9 overs) |
Ryan Burl 52 (52) Ruaidhri Smith 2/23 (10 overs) |
- Zimbabwe Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
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Subash Khakurel 22 (30) Tharindu Kaushal 3/13 (4.3 overs) |
Shehan Fernando 48 (49) Prithu Baskota 1/10 (7 overs) |
- Nepal Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
9th place play-off semi-finals
Afghanistan ![]() 336/7 (50 overs) |
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Javed Ahmadi 134 (111) Patrick Sadler 3/69 (10 overs) |
Matthew Cross 37 (32) Aftab Alam 3/63 (9.4 overs) |
- Afghanistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Shane Getkate 46 (57) Lahiru Madushanka 6/24 (7.5 overs) |
- Sri Lanka Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
13th place play-off semi-finals
Papua New Guinea ![]() 235 (50 overs) |
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Charles Amini 63 (71) Luke Jongwe 3/38 (7 overs) |
Luke Masasire 68 (62) Kabua Vagi Morea 3/26 (10 overs) |
- Papua New Guinea Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
15th place play-off
Zimbabwe ![]() 236/9 (50 overs) |
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Ryan Burl 78 (73) Jason Davidson 3/26 (9 overs) |
Gerhard Erasmus 32 (52) Luke Jongwe 3/29 (6.5 overs) |
- Zimbabwe Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
13th place play-off
11th place play-off
Plate Final
Afghanistan ![]() 194/9 (50 overs) |
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Mohibullah Oryakhel 44 (64) Lahiru Madushanka 3/34 (9 overs) |
- Afghanistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
Super League
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
19 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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21 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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19 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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26 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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20 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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23 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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20 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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25 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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Quarter-finals | 5th place play-off semi-finals | 5th place play-off | ||||||||
21 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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24 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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22 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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24 Aug – ![]() | ||||||||||
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Quarter-finals
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Ben Foakes 54 (72) Prenelan Subrayen 4/24 (10 overs) |
- England Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
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- Australia Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
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Babar Azam 50 (109) Sandeep Sharma 3/24 (8.1 overs) |
Baba Aparajith 51 (97) Zia-ul-Haq 3/23 (10 overs) |
- Pakistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
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Akeal Hosein 54 (70) Matt Quinn 3/54 (10 overs) |
Ben Horne 59 (71) Kyle Mayers 3/42 (9 overs) |
- New Zealand Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
Semi-finals
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Murray Coetzee 50 (76) Mark Steketee 3/35 (10 overs) |
Cameron Bancroft 66 (133) Lizaad Williams 3/40 (10 overs) |
- Australia Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Prashant Chopra 52 (104) Ben Horne 3/28 (6 overs) |
Cameron Fletcher 53 (89) Harmeet Singh 2/30 (10 overs) |
- New Zealand Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
5th place play-off semi-finals
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- England Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
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Kraigg Brathwaite 39 (77) Mir Hamza 3/44 (10 overs) |
Babar Azam 38 (76) Derone Davis 3/20 (10 overs) |
- Pakistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
7th place play-off
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Anamul Haque 128 (112) Ehsan Adil 2/32 (10 overs) |
- Bangladesh Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
5th place play-off
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Sam Wood 104 (111) Justin Greaves 3/38 (8 overs) |
John Campbell 105 (133) Reece Topley 3/39 (8.3 overs) |
- West Indies Under-19s won the toss and elected to field
3rd place play-off
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- New Zealand Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat
Final
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Will Bosisto 87* (120) Sandeep Sharma 4/54 (10 overs) |
- India Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
Final standings
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- Qualify for the 2014 U-19 World Cup as full members.
References
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- Chakraborty, Amlan. "Unmukt Chand leads India to third U-19 World Cup triumph". Reuters. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- Canada to host 2012 Under-19 World Cup
- Archived 15 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net 15 December 2010
- Archived 15 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net 15 December 2010
- "Lamichhane: Nepal's right-arm leg-break googly bowler". ESPN.com. 30 January 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2023.