# 2018 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup

The 2018 Under-19 Asia Cup was the 7th edition of ACC Under-19 Cup. The cricket tournament was held in Bangladesh from 29 September to 7 October at Chittagong and Cox's Bazar. 8 teams participated in the tournament, including 5 full members and three qualifiers. Afghanistan were the defending champions but failed to defend their title after a loss against Sri Lanka in the semi-finals. India defeated Sri Lanka by 144 runs in the final to win the tournament for the 6th time.

## Teams

| No. | Teams | Qualification method |
| 1 | India | ICC full member |
| 2 | Pakistan | ICC full member |
| 3 | Bangladesh | ICC full member |
| 4 | Sri Lanka | ICC full member |
| 5 | Afghanistan | ICC full member |
| 6 | Hong Kong | Qualifiers |
| 7 | Nepal | Qualifiers |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | Qualifiers |

## Squads

| Afghanistan | Bangladesh | India | Hong Kong | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | United Arab Emirates |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz (c) & (wk) Abdul Rahman Abid Mohammadi Arif Khan Azmatullah Omarzai Baseer Khan Farhan Zakhil Ijaz Mohammad Ishaq Naveed Ahmad Naveed Zabul Qais Ahmad Rizwanullah Murad Riaz Hussan Samiullah Jawad Sediqullah Atal Suliman Arabzai Zakiullah | Towhid Hridoy (c) Akbar Ali (wk) Amite Hasan Avishek Das Mohammed Mehedi Hasan Minhazur Rahman Mrittunjoy Chowdhury Prantik Nawroz Nabil Rakibul Hasan Rishad Hossain Sajid Hossain Shahadat Hossain Dipu Shamim Hossain Shoriful Islam Tanzid Hasan | Pawan Shah (c) Anuj Rawat (wk) Ayush Badoni Siddharth Desai Ajay Dev Goud Harsh Tyagi Yashasvi Jaiswal Mohit Jangra Devdutt Padikkal Rajesh Mohanty Yash Rathod Sabir Khan Sameer Choudhary Simran Singh Nehal Wadhera Ajay Gangapuram | Kabir Sodhi (c & wk) Harpreet Singh Kalhan Challu Wajid Shah Haroon Arshed Adit Gorawara Danyial Butt Nasrulla Rana Haroon Arshed Hassan Khan Mohammad Mohammad Hassan Raunaq Kapur | Aasif Sheikh (c) Kamal Airee Rit Gautam Ravi Shah Rabindra Shahi Sundeep Jora Pawan Sarraf Bhim Sharki Sagar Dhakal Surya Tamang Trit Raj Das Rohit Kumar Paudel Rashid Khan Nandan Yadav | Rohail Nazir (c & wk) Muhammad Mohsin Khan Saim Ayub Saad Khan Waqar Ahmad Awaiz Zafar Jahanzaib Sultan Junaid Khan Mohammad Asif Naseem Shah Muhammad Musa Mohammad Hasnain Bilal Javed Arshad Iqbal Farrukh Abbas | Nipun Dananjaya (c) Selvarajh Mathushan Shashika Dulshan Nishan Madushka Nuwanidu Fernando (wk) Naveen Fernando Nipun Malinga Sandun Mendis Kamil Mishara Navod Paranavithana Kalana Perera Rohan Sanjaya Kalhara Senarathne Pasindu Sooriyabandara Dulith Wellalage | Fahad Nawaz (c) Ansh Tandon Ali Mirza Jonathan Figy John Alishan Sharafu Brandon Adam Syed Haider Wasi Shah (wk) Aryan Lakra Palaniapan Meiyappan Ronak Sudesh Panoly Ansh Tandon Niel Rohan Lobo Aaron William Benjamin Deshan Chethyia Aryan Lakra |

## Matches
### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | NR | T | NRR | Pts |
| India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2.993 | 6 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.650 | 4 |
| Nepal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -1.542 | 2 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | -2.552 | 0 |
* 29 September 2018 Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 140 (43.5 overs) | v | Afghanistan 144/5 (27 overs) |
* Afghanistan Under-19s won by 5 wickets Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 4 Ground, Savar Umpires: Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nep) Player of the match: Azmatullah Omarzai (Afg)
* Afghanistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
* 29 September 2018 Scorecard
| India 304/9 (50 overs) | v | Nepal 133 (36.5 overs) |
* India Under-19s won by 171 runs Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 3 Ground, Savar Umpires: Tariq Rasheed (Pak) and Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) Player of the match: Yashasvi Jaiswal (Ind)
* Nepal Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
* 30 September 2018 Scorecard
| India 354/6 (50 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 127 (50 overs) |
* India Under-19s won by 227 runs Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 3 Ground, Savar Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nep) and Tariq Rasheed (Pak) Player of the match: Devdutt Padikkal (Ind)
* India Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
* 1 October 2018 Scorecard
| Nepal 131 (38.3 overs) | v | Afghanistan 136/7 (37.3 overs) |
* Afghanistan Under-19s won by 3 wickets Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 4 Ground, Savar Umpires: Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL) and Tariq Rasheed (Pak) Player of the match: Azmatullah Omarzai (Afg)
* Nepal Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
* 2 October 2018 Scorecard
| India 221 (45.3 overs) | v | Afghanistan 170 (45.4 overs) |
* India Under-19s won by 51 runs Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 3 Ground, Savar Umpires: Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL) and Tariq Rasheed (Pak) Player of the match: Yashasvi Jaiswal (Ind)
* India Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
* 2 October 2018 Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 268/8 (50 overs) | v | Nepal 274/7 (49.1 overs) |
* Nepal Under-19s won by 3 wickets Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 4 Ground, Savar Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) Player of the match: Rohit Kumar (Nep)
* United Arab Emirates Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.

### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | NR | T | NRR | Pts |
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1.644 | 6 |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.840 | 4 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | +0.678 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | -4.959 | 0 |
* 29 September 2018
| Bangladesh 141 (46.4 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 144/4 (37.5 overs) |
* Sri Lanka Under-19s won by 6 wickets Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg) Nandan (Ind) Player of the match: Nuwanidu Fernando (SL)
* Sri Lanka Under-19s on the toss and elected to field.
* 29 September 2018 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 77 (33 overs) | v | Pakistan 78/1 (14.4 overs) |
* Pakistan Under-19s won by 9 wickets M. A. Aziz Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Mahfuzur Rahman (Ban) and Unknown Player of the match: Naseem Shah (Pak)
* Pakistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
* 30 September 2018 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 56 (33.1 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 58/0 (9.2 overs) |
* Sri Lanka Under-19 won by 10 wickets Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Mahfuzur Rahman (Ban) and Moniruzzaman (Ban) Player of the match: Shashika Dulshan (SL)
* Sri Lanka Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
* 1 October 2018 Scorecard
| Pakistan 187 (45.2 overs) | v | Bangladesh 191/7 (47.2 overs) |
* Bangladesh Under-19s won by 3 wickets M. A. Aziz Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg) and Nandan (Ind) Player of the match: Shamim Hossain (Ban)
* Bangladesh Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.
* 2 October 2018 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 91 (46.5 overs) | v | Bangladesh 92/5 (11.2 overs) |
* Bangladesh Under-19s won by 5 wickets Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg) and Nandan (Ind) Player of the match: Rishad Hossain (Ban)
* 2 October 2018 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 200 (49.4 overs) | v | Pakistan 177/8 (50 overs) |
* Sri Lanka Under-19s won by 23 runs M. A. Aziz Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Mahfuzur Rahman (Ban) and Gazi Sohel (Ban) Player of the match: Arshad Iqbal (Pak)
* Pakistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to field.

### Semi-finals

* 4 October 2018 Scorecard
| India 172 (49.3 Overs) | v | Bangladesh 170 (46.2 overs) |
* India Under-19s won by 2 runs Sher-e Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur Umpires: Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg)and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL) Player of the match: Mohit Jangra (Ind)
* India Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.
* 5 October 2018 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 209/7 (50 overs) | v | Afghanistan 178 (48.3 overs) |
* Sri Lanka Under-19s won by 31 runs Sher-e Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Nandan (Ind) Player of the match: Nuwanidu Fernando (Sri)
* Afghanistan Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.

### Final

* 7 October 2018 Scorecard
| India 304/3 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 160 (38.4 overs) |
* India Under-19s won by 144 runs Sher-e Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg) Player of the match: Harsh Tyagi (Ind)
* India Under-19s won the toss and elected to bat.

## Final standings

| Pos. | Team |
| 1 | India |
| 2 | Sri Lanka |
| 3 | Bangladesh |
| 4 | Afghanistan |
| 5 | Pakistan |
| 6 | Nepal |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates |
| 8 | Hong Kong |