# 2003 Youth Asia Cup

The 2003 Youth Asia Cup was an international under-19 cricket tournament held in Karachi, Pakistan, from 14 to 27 July 2003. The fifth ACC under-19 tournament to be held, it was originally scheduled to be held in Singapore, but was moved to Karachi as a precaution against the SARS outbreak. The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) shared organising responsibilities.
Nepal defeated Malaysia in the final, winning its second title and qualifying for the 2004 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh. Played during the usual off-season in Pakistan, the tournament was heavily impacted by monsoon rains – three matches (including the final) were shortened, three ended in no result (including a semi-final), and five were abandoned entirely (including the other semi-final), with no play possible. The player of the tournament was Oman's Adnan Ilyas, who was the leading runscorer, and also one of three players who led the tournament's wicket-taking, alongside Nepal's Manjeet Shrestha and Kuwait's Waqas Jamil.

## Squads

| Hong Kong | Kuwait | Malaysia | Maldives | Nepal |
| Kieran Kumaria (c) Zain Abbas Irfan Ahmed Nadeem Ahmed Skhawat Ali Moazzam Ayub Colin Bridges Courtney Kruger Nicholas Lau Matthew Lind (wk) Ansir Mahmood Yogesh Mahtani Ghulam Mustafa Zaran Vachha | Adeel Mirza (c) Abdullah Iftikhar Abdur Rahman Ahmed Ebrahim Mohammad Ali Shahzad Ali Talib Arnav Dutta Emad Al-Jassam Faisal Mohammad Habibullah Iftikhar Hamza Arif (wk) Khalid Al-Mutawa Othman Abdul Aziz Saim Shibli Sajid Ashraf Waqas Jamil Yasar Idrees Zeeshan Ahmed | Eszrafiq Azis (c) Anwar Arudin Saiful Hawari Suhan Kumar Joshua Mahadevan Stephen Maxwell Ariffin Ramly Mohammad Razman Shanmugam Sathiswaran Mohammad Shukri Manrick Singh Sambo Tamilarasan Satgunasingam Vickneswaran Rosman Zakaria (wk) | Mohamed Mahfooz (c) Ahmed Hassan Ahmed Ismail Hassan Aflam Hassan Ibrahim (wk) Hassan Miras Hussain Adnan Hussain Izwan Hussain Riman Hussain Rishwan Mohamed Habeeb Mohamed Idhaam Mohamed Imran Mohamed Sais Mohamed Shubiab Mohamed Sobir Mohamed Waseem Umar Jamal | Shakti Gauchan (c) Pramod Basnet Prem Chaudhary Kanishka Chaugai Manoj Katuwal (wk) Paras Khadka Deepesh Khatri Ratan Kumar Lakpa Lama Manjeet Shrestha Raj Shrestha Irfan Siddique Yashwant Subedi Sharad Veswakar |
| Oman | Qatar | Singapore | Thailand | United Arab Emirates |
| Rafeeq Al Balushi (c) Rostam Ali Khan Ansar Ansari Hussain Bilal Asad Haider Mehndi Hassan Adnan Ilyas Abbas Jawad Nitish Kandwal Pranav Mehta (wk) Derrick Ruston Vignesh Shenoy Yash Thakkar Imran Younus | Athar Khan (c) Abdul Aziz Asif Mohammad Fahad Dalvi Faisal Noor Khalid Azeem Hassan Ahmed Mohammad Emran Mosin Shabbir Omar Arshad Omar Sharif Qamar Sadiq Saifur Rehman Sarmad Adil Walimuni Migara Wasim Akram Yaseen Badsha Zaheeruddin Ibrahim (wk) | Zeeshan Raza (c) Shafees Altaf Aziz-ul-Ariffin Senthil Dayalan (wk) Iftekhar Haider Christopher Janik Ronald Joseph Rizwan Madakia Glenn Meyer James Muruthi Peter Muruthi Shaun Sabapathy Utkarah Sharma Maxim Yuen | Saurabh Dhanukha (c) Danushka Abeyasekara Saad Akbar Neeraj Annachhatra Kwan Chand (wk) Chirag Chugani Akshay Desai Theerapnat Kanijou Swapnil Kaushik Arujun Kumar Adrash Mukerjee Sunil Nalinvilawan Sahan Ranamukharaachchi Nishadh Rego Deepak Saraff Darshil Shah | Ryan Chadha (c) Abdul Rehman Ali Abdulla Asim Zubair Farhan Siddiqui Leon Carlo Owais Hameed Pranov Arora Qasim Zubair Ramveer Rai Riaz Khaliq Rizwan Azhar Shoaib Sarwar Umar Shah |

## Group stages

Source: CricketArchive

### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | L | NR | A | BP | Pts | NRR |
| Nepal | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 21 | +4.608 |
| Qatar | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | +1.204 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | –0.204 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | –1.030 |
| Maldives | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | –5.209 |
* 14 July Scorecard
| Nepal 391/4 (50 overs) | v | Maldives 47 (31.3 overs) |
* Nepal won by 344 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Aleem Dar and Nadeem Ghauri
* Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.
* 14 July Scorecard
| Singapore 249/9 (50 overs) | v | Qatar 209/9 (50 overs) |
* Singapore won by 40 runs Karachi Gymkhana Umpires: Mohammad Aslam and Saleem Badar
* Singapore won the toss and elected to bat.
* 16 July Scorecard
| Singapore 276/9 (50 overs) | v | Maldives 17/1 (6.4 overs) |
* No result Karachi Gymkhana Umpires: Aleem Dar and Mohammad Aslam
* Singapore won the toss and elected to bat.
* 16 July Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 201 (43 overs) | v | Qatar 13/0 (2.4 overs) |
* No result United Bank Sports Complex, Karachi Umpires: Islam Khan and Nadeem Ghauri
* UAE won the toss and elected to bat.
* 18 July Scorecard
| Nepal | v | Qatar |
* Match abandoned Asghar Ali Shah Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Afzaal Ahmed and Nadeem Ghauri
* No toss was made.
* 18 July Scorecard
| Singapore | v | United Arab Emirates |
* Match abandoned National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Islam Khan and Mohammad Aslam
* No toss was made.
* 20 July Scorecard
| Maldives 50 (23.4 overs) | v | Qatar 51/2 (12 overs) |
* Qatar won by 8 wickets PCB Academy Ground, Karachi Umpires: Mohammad Aslam and Saleem Badar
* Qatar won the toss and elected to bowl.
* 20 July Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 78 (39.5 overs) | v | Nepal 79/2 (15.1 overs) |
* Nepal won by 8 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Asad Rauf and Islam Khan
* UAE won the toss and elected to bat.
* 22 July Scorecard
| Maldives 94 (35.4 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 96/2 (21 overs) |
* UAE won by 8 wickets PCB Academy Ground, Karachi Umpires: Afzaal Ahmed and Nadeem Ghauri
* UAE won the toss and elected to bowl.
* 22 July Scorecard
| Nepal 202/8 (50 overs) | v | Singapore 59 (45.1 overs) |
* Nepal won by 143 runs Asghar Ali Shah Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Islam Khan and Saleem Badar
* Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | L | NR | A | BP | Pts | NRR |
| Malaysia | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 20 | +2.337 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 15 | +1.867 |
| Oman | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | +1.670 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | –2.064 |
| Thailand | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | –3.935 |
* 15 July Scorecard
| Oman 296/5 (50 overs) | v | Hong Kong 71 (24 overs) |
* Oman won by 225 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Afzaal Ahmed and Nadeem Ghauri
* Oman won the toss and elected to bowl.
* 15 July Scorecard
| Kuwait 279 (49.4 overs) | v | Malaysia 283/2 (45.4 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 8 wickets Quaid-e-Azam Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Asad Rauf and Islam Khan
* 17 July Scorecard
| Hong Kong | v | Malaysia |
* Match abandoned PCB Academy Ground, Karachi Umpires: Afzaal Ahmed and Saleem Badar
* 17 July Scorecard
| Kuwait | v | Thailand |
* Match abandoned Aga Khan Gymkhana Ground, Karachi Umpires: Aleem Dar and Asad Rauf
* 19 July Scorecard
| Hong Kong 129 (33 overs) | v | Kuwait 133/3 (24.3 overs) |
* Kuwait won by 7 wickets Quaid-e-Azam Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Aleem Dar and Mohammad Aslam
* Kuwait won the toss and elected to bowl.
* The match was reduced to 35 overs per side before the start of play.
* 19 July Scorecard
| Thailand 52 (23 overs) | v | Oman 55/0 (3.1 overs) |
* Oman won by 10 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Asad Rauf and Saleem Badar
* Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.
* 21 July Scorecard
| Thailand 174 (46.2 overs) | v | Hong Kong 178/6 (36 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 4 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Asad Rauf and Nadeem Ghauri
* Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.
* 21 July Scorecard
| Malaysia 278/5 (50 overs) | v | Oman 157/9 (30 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 51 runs (D/L) Quaid-e-Azam Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Aleem Dar and Islam Khan
* Oman won the toss and elected to bowl.
* Oman's target was 209 runs in 30 overs.
* 23 July Scorecard
| Oman 85 (35.3 overs) | v | Kuwait 86/6 (19.5 overs) |
* Kuwait won by 4 wickets Quaid-e-Azam Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Asad Rauf and Saleem Badar
* Kuwait won the toss and elected to bowl.
* 23 July Scorecard
| Thailand 108 (48.5 overs) | v | Malaysia 109/2 (16.2 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 8 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Aleem Dar and Mohammad Aslam
* Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.

## Finals
### Semi-finals

* 25–26 July Scorecard
| Nepal 110/5 (33 overs) | v | Kuwait |
* No result National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Islam Khan and Mohammad Aslam
* Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.
* The match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
* Nepal qualified for the final based on a better record in the group stages.
* 25–26 July Scorecard
| Malaysia | v | Qatar |
* Match abandoned Quaid-e-Azam Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Asad Rauf and Saleem Badar
* No toss was made.
* The match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
* Malaysia qualified for the final based on a better record in the group stages.

### Final

* 27 July Scorecard
| Nepal 155/5 (25 overs) | v | Malaysia 125/6 (25 overs) |
* Nepal won by 30 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Aleem Dar and Nadeem Ghauri Player of the match: Sharad Vesawkar (Nep)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bowl.
* The match was reduced to 25 overs per side before the start of play.
* Nepal won the 2003 Youth Asia Cup and qualified for the 2004 Under-19 World Cup.

## Statistics
### Most runs

The top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.
| Player | Team | Runs | Inns | Avg | Highest | 100s | 50s |
| Adnan Ilyas | Oman | 239 | 4 | 119.50 | 168* | 1 | 0 |
| Kanishka Chaugai | Nepal | 196 | 5 | 49.00 | 125 | 1 | 0 |
| Satgunasingam Vickneswaran | Malaysia | 183 | 3 | 61.00 | 125 | 1 | 0 |
| Yashwant Subedi | Nepal | 181 | 5 | 36.20 | 63 | 0 | 1 |
| Saim Shibli | Kuwait | 155 | 3 | 51.66 | 82 | 0 | 1 |
Source: CricketArchive

### Most wickets

The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by bowling average.
| Player | Team | Overs | Wkts | Ave | SR | Econ | BBI |
| Manjeet Shrestha | Nepal | 24.0 | 10 | 6.50 | 14.40 | 2.70 | 4/17 |
| Adnan Ilyas | Oman | 28.0 | 10 | 9.70 | 16.80 | 3.46 | 6/16 |
| Waqas Jamil | Kuwait | 27.3 | 10 | 10.90 | 16.50 | 3.96 | 4/23 |
| Imran Younus | Oman | 23.0 | 8 | 9.37 | 17.25 | 3.26 | 3/17 |
| Lakpar Lama | Nepal | 28.5 | 7 | 5.85 | 24.71 | 1.42 | 3/5 |
Source: CricketArchive

## Final standing

| Rank | Team | Status |
| 1 | Nepal | Qualified for 2004 Under-19 World Cup |
| 2 | Malaysia | |
| 3 | Kuwait | |
| 4 | Qatar | |
| 5 | Oman | |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | |
| 7 | Singapore | |
| 8 | Hong Kong | |
| 9 | Thailand | |
| 10 | Maldives | |