# 2023 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup

2023 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup was the tenth edition of the ACC Under-19 Cup, a limited overs cricket tournament featuring eight under-19 teams. It was scheduled to played between 8 and 17 December 2023. The five full members of the Asian Cricket Council are taking part in the tournament: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. They joined by the top three ranked teams Nepal, United Arab Emirates and Japan. Originally, the tournament was scheduled to take place in Pakistan but it was shifted to United Arab Emirates later.
Bangladesh won their maiden Under-19 Asia Cup title beating the United Arab Emirates in the final by 195 runs.

## Teams and qualifications

| Means of qualification | Date | Berths | Qualified |
| ICC Full Member | — | 5 | Afghanistan Bangladesh India Pakistan Sri Lanka |
| 2023 ACC Men's Under-19 Premier Cup | 12 – 24 October 2023 | 3 | Japan Nepal United Arab Emirates |

## Squads

| Afghanistan | Bangladesh | India | Japan | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | United Arab Emirates |
| Naseer Khan (c) Wafiullah Tarakhil Jamshid Zadran Khalid Taniwal Akram Mohammadzai Shoail Khan Zurmati Rahimullah Zurmati Noman Shah Agha (wk) Mohammad Younus Zadran Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar Wahidullah Zadran Bashir Ahmad Afghan Faridoon Dawoodzai Khalil Ahmad | Mahfuzur Rahman Rabby (c) Ashiqur Rahman Shibli Ahrar Amin Jishan Alam Mohammad Rohanat Doullah Borson Mohammad Asrafuzzaman Boranno Mohammad Iqbal Hasanemon (wk) Ariful Islam Sheikh Paevez Jibon Maruf Mridha Mohammad Rafiuzzaman Rafi Chowdhury Mohammad Rizwan Adil Bin Siddik Mohammad Shihab James Wasi Siddiquee | Uday Pratap Saharan (c) Saumy Kumar Pandey (vc) Aravelly Avanish Rao (wk) Innesh Mahajan (wk) Murugan Abhishek Sachin Dhas Dhanush Gowda Musheer Khan Arshin Kulkarni Raj Limbani Priyanshu Moliya Rudra Mayur Patel Adarsh Singh Aaradhya Shukla Naman Tiwari | Koji Hardgrave -Abe (c) Kazuma Kato-Stafford (vc) Chihaya Arakawa Shotaro Hiratsuka Charles Hinze Hirotake Kakinuma Hugo Kelly Daniel Panckhurst (wk) Nihar Parmar Aditya Phadke Timothy Moore Tomo Rear (wk) Aarav Tiwari Kiefer Yamamoto-Lake | Dev Khanal (c) Deepak Bohara Tilak Raj Bhandari Subhash Bhandari Akash Chand Hemant Dhami Dipak Prasad Dumre Gulshan Jha Arjun Kumal Dipesh Prasad Kandel Bishal Bikram Kc Uttam Thapa Magar Bipin Rawal (wk) Aakash Tripathi | Saad Baig (c) (wk) Arafat Minhas (vc) Ali Asfand Azan Awais Mohammad Tayyab Arif Amir Hassan Ahmad Hussain Shamyl Hussain Khubaih Khalil Najab Khan Naveed Ahmed Khan Shahzaib Khan Mohammad Riazullah Ubaid Shah Mohammad Zeeshan | Sineth Jayawardene (c) Malsha Tharupathi Pulindu Perera Rusanda Gamage Ravishan Nethsara Sharujan Shanmuganathan (wk) Dinura Kalupahana Vishwa Lahiru Garuka Sanketh Vishen Halambage Ruvishan Perera Vihas Thewmika Duvindu Ranatunga Hirun Kapurubandara Dinuka Thennakoon | Aayan Afzal Khan (c) Ayman Ahamed Shakeel Ahamed Ammar Badami Ethan D'Souza Maroof Merchant Dhruv Parashar Hardik Pai Akshat Rai Yayin Kiran Rai Omid Rahman Aryansh Sharma (wk) Harshit Seth Harit Shetty Shrey Sethi Tanish Suri (wk) |

## Group stage

The ACC released the fixture details on 8 November 2023.

### Group A
#### Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Pakistan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.623 | Advanced to the Knockout stage |
| 2 | India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.856 | Advanced to the Knockout stage |
| 3 | Afghanistan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.476 | |
| 4 | Nepal | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3.027 | |

### Fixtures

* 8 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Afghanistan 173 (50 overs) | v | India 174/3 (37.3 overs) |
| Jamshid Zadran 43 (75) Arshin Kulkarni 3/29 (8 overs) | | Arshin Kulkarni 70* (105) Khalel Ahmad 1/28 (8.3 overs) |
* India won by 7 wickets ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai Umpires: Rashid Riaz (Pak) and Gazi Sohel (Ban) Player of the match: Arshin Kulkarni (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to field.
* 8 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Nepal 152 (47.2 overs) | v | Pakistan 153/3 (26.2 overs) |
| Uttam Thapa Magar 51 (76) Mohammad Zeeshan 6/19 (9.2 overs) | | Azan Awais 56* (62) Gulsan Jha 2/54 (8 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 7 wickets ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai Umpires: Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg) and Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) Player of the match: Mohammad Zeeshan (Pak)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
* 10 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| India 259/9 (50 overs) | v | Pakistan 263/2 (47 overs) |
| Adarsh Singh 62 (81) Mohammad Zeeshan 4/46 (10 overs) | | Azan Awais 105* (130) Murugan Abhishek 2/55 (9 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 8 wickets ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai Umpires: Gazi Sohel (Ban) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL) Player of the match: Azan Awais (Pak)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
* 10 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Afghanistan 261 (49.3 overs) | v | Nepal 188 (40.1 overs) |
| Jamshid Zadran 106* (152) Subash Bhandari 2/49 (10 overs) | | Arjun Kumal 91 (108) Faridoon Dawoodzai 3/31 (7.1 overs) |
* Afghanistan won by 73 runs ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Asif Yaqoob (Pak) Player of the match: Jamshid Zadran (Afg)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
* 12 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Pakistan 303 (48 overs) | v | Afghanistan 220 (48.4 overs) |
| Shahzaib Khan 79 (95) Faridoon Dawoodzai 3/49 (9 overs) | | Numan Shah 54 (78) Tayyab Arif 3/52 (9 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 83 runs ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai Umpires: Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) and Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) Player of the match: Shamyl Hussain (Pak)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.
* 12 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Nepal 52 (22.1 overs) | v | India 57/0 (7.1 overs) |
| Hemant Dhami 8 (18) Raj Limbani 7/13 (9.1 overs) | | Arshin Kulkarni 43* (30) |
* India won by 10 wickets ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai Umpires: Rashid Riaz (Pak) and Asif Yaqoob (Pak) Player of the match: Raj Limbani (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to field.

### Group B
#### Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Bangladesh | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2.107 | Advanced to the Knockout stage |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.387 | Advanced to the Knockout stage |
| 3 | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.792 | |
| 4 | Japan | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4.153 | |

### Fixtures

* 9 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Bangladesh 228 (49.3 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 167 (47.4 overs) |
| Ashiqur Rahman Shibli 71 (102) Dhruv Parashar 6/44 (9.3 overs) | | Hardik Pai 30* (51) Sheikh Paevez Jibon 4/26 (10 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 61 runs ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai Umpires: Izatullah Safi (Afg) and Asif Yaqoob (Pak) Player of the match: Ashiqur Rahman Shibli (Ban)
* United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.
* 9 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Japan 75 (30.3 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 76/3 (12.2 overs) |
| Charlie Hinze 36 (52) Malsha Tharupath 3/26 (6.3 overs) | | Sineth Jayawardena 26* (24) Kiefer Lake 2/27 (5 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Rashid Riaz (Pak) Player of the match: Malsha Tharupath (SL)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
* 11 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 220/9 (50 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 224/8 (48.2 overs) |
| Dinura Kalupahana 56 (87) Aayan Afzal Khan 2/38 (10 overs) | | Tanish Suri 75 (87) Garuka Sanketh 3/35 (10 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 2 wickets ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nep) and Gazi Sohel (Ban) Player of the match: Aayan Afzal Khan (UAE)
* United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.
* 11 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Japan 99 (47.1 overs) | v | Bangladesh 100/1 (11.2 overs) |
| Nihar Parmar 18 (80) Mahfuzur Rahman Rabby 2/9 (8.1 overs) | | Ashiqur Rahman Shibli 55* (45) Charles Hinze 1/30 (3.2 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 9 wickets ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) Player of the match: Ashiqur Rahman Shibli (Ban)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
* 13 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 200/9 (50 overs) | v | Bangladesh 204/4 (40.5 overs) |
| Sineth Jayawardena 25 (30) Wasi Siddiquee 3/32 (10 overs) | | Ashiqur Rahman Shibli 116* (130) Garuka Sanketh 2/56 (7.5 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 6 wickets ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Izatullah Safi (Afg) Player of the match: Ashiqur Rahman Shibli (Ban)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
* 13 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 320/7 (50 overs) | v | Japan 213/4 (50 overs) |
| Aayan Afzal Khan 67* (41) Charles Hinze 2/42 (10 overs) | | Koji Hardgrave Abe 69 (68) Harshit Seth 2/19 (7 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 107 runs ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai Umpires: Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg) and Sanjay Gurung (Nep) Player of the match: Aayan Afzal Khan (UAE)
* United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.

## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final |
| A1 | Pakistan | 182 (49.3) | | | |
| B2 | United Arab Emirates | 193 (47.5) | | | |
| B2 | United Arab Emirates | 193 (47.5) | SFW1 | United Arab Emirates | 87 (24.5) |
| | | | SFW2 | Bangladesh | 282/8 (50) |
| B1 | Bangladesh | 189/6 (42.5) | SFW2 | Bangladesh | 282/8 (50) |
| A2 | India | 188 (42.4) | | | |

### Semi-final
#### 1st Semi-final

* 15 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 193 (47.5 overs) | v | Pakistan 182 (49.3 overs) |
| Aayan Afzal Khan 55 (57) Ubaid Shah 4/44 (9.5 overs) | | Saad Baig 70 (53) Hardik Pai 1/35 (10 overs) |
* UAE won by 11 runs ICC Academy Oval-1, Dubai Umpires: Gazi Sohel (Ban) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL) Player of the match: Aayan Afzal Khan (UAE)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

#### 2nd Semi-final

* 15 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| India 188 (42.4 overs) | v | Bangladesh 189/6 (42.5 overs) |
| Murugan Abhishek 62 (74) Maruf Mridha 4/41 (10 overs) | | Ariful Islam 94 (90) Naman Tiwari 3/35 (9 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 4 wickets ICC Academy Oval-2, Dubai Umpires: Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) and Rashid Riaz (Pak) Player of the match: Maruf Mridha (Ban)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.

### Final

* 17 December 2023 9:30 Scorecard
| Bangladesh 282/8 (50 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 87 (24.5 overs) |
| Ashiqur Rahman Shibli 129 (149) Ayman Ahamed 4/52 (10 overs) | | Dhuruv Parashar 25* (40) Maruf Mridha 3/29 (7 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 195 runs Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Asif Yaqoob (Pak) Player of the match: Ashiqur Rahman Shibli (Ban)
* United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.