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2014 Under 19 Cricket World Cup

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Cricket format
  
One Day International

Participants
  
16

Host(s)
  
United Arab Emirates

Administrator(s)
  
International Cricket Council

Tournament format(s)
  
Round-robin and knockout

Champions
  
South Africa (1st title)

The 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was a one-day cricket competition for sixteen international U-19 cricketing teams which was played in the United Arab Emirates. This was the tenth edition of the tournament. Sixteen nations competed: the ten Test-playing teams, the United Arab Emirates as hosts, and five additional associate and affiliate qualifiers (Afghanistan, Canada, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, and Scotland). India entered the tournament as defending champions, having won the title in 2012 in Australia under the captaincy of Unmukt Chand. In the final, South Africa beat Pakistan by six wickets to win the tournament. South Africa captain Aiden Markram was awarded Man of the Series.

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Qualification

Sixteen teams participated in the competition: the 10 nations with ICC Full Membership automatically qualified for the tournament, the UAE qualified as the hosts, and five additional teams qualified through the different regional tournaments. Unlike the previous tournament, there was no global qualifier for this world cup: rather, the winner of each of five regional tournaments directly qualified for the World Cup.

Venues

The following venues were used for the tournament:

Groups

The following groups were chosen for the World Cup 2012 by the International Cricket Council. The tournament began with a league stage consisting of four groups of four. Each team played each of the other teams in its group once.

Squads

Each country selected a 15-man squad for the tournament.

Fixtures

The tournament groups and fixtures were released on 14 December 2013.

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 took part in the Plate competition knock-out.

    • Plate championship

    9th place play-off quarter-finals
    9th place play-off semi-finals
    13th place play-off semi-finals
    15th place play-off
    13th place play-off
    11th place play-off
    9th place play-off

    Super league

    Quarter-finals
    Semi-finals
    5th place play-off semi-finals
    7th place play-off
    5th place play-off
    3rd place play-off
    Final

    Future players

    Players in the tournament that featured for their national team in the future were:

  • Afghanistan – Hashmatullah Shaidi, Nasir Jamal, Usman Ghani, Sharafuddin Ashraf
  • Bangladesh – Jubair Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Litton Das, Mosaddek Hossain, Abu Haider, Mehedi Hasan
  • Canada – Nitish Kumar, Nikhil Dutta
  • England – Ben Duckett
  • Namibia – Gerhard Erasmus, JJ Smit, Jean-Pierre Kotze, Tiaan Snyman, Xander Pitchers, Zane Green
  • India – Sanju Samson,
  • Pakistan – Sami Aslam, Zafar Gohar, Zia-ul-Haq, Imam-ul-Haq, Saud Shakeel, Amad Butt
  • Scotland – Gavin Main, Mark Watt
  • South Africa – Kagiso Rabada, Andile Phehlukwayo
  • Zimbabwe – Luke Jongwe
  • Sri Lanka – Kusal Mendis, Binura Fernando
  • West Indies – Nicolas Pooran, Tagenarine Chanderpaul

    • References

    2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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