UAE to host 2021 U19 Asia Cup Tournament in December 2021

The Asian Cricket Council U19 Asia Cup, which was scheduled to begin from November 18th in the United Arab Emirates in 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ninth edition of the regional age-level tournament will now take place from 20th December 2021 – 02nd January 2022, with UAE staying as the host nation. Asian Cricket Council (ACC) had asked the participating member boards to give their opinion about playing the tournament before deciding to postpone it to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic situation globally.

Afghanistan U19, India U19, Sri Lanka U19 and Bangladesh U19 teams have already played competitive cricket in the past couple of months now, before they travel to UAE to take part in the ACC U19 Asia Cup in December, followed by ICC U19 World Cup in January-February 2022. United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Nepal were due to take part in the U19 Asia Cup along with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Kuwait also took part in the previous edition held in 2019 in Sri Lanka, which was their maiden appearance in the tournament’s history.

Group A (All Matches in Dubai): India U19, Pakistan U19, Afghanistan U19, UAE U19

Group B (All Matches in Sharjah): Bangladesh U19, Sri Lanka U19, Nepal U19, Kuwait U19

2021 ACC U19 Asia Cup Schedule

23rd December 2021: Sri Lanka U19 vs Kuwait U19 ; Afghanistan U19 vs Pakistan U19 ; India U19 vs UAE U19

24th December 2021: Bangladesh U19 vs Nepal U19

25th December 2021: Bangladesh U19 vs Kuwait U19 ; India U19 vs Pakistan U19 ; Afghanistan U19 vs UAE U19

26th December 2021: Sri Lanka U19 vs Nepal U19

27th December 2021: India U19 vs Afghanistan U19 ; UAE U19 vs Pakistan U19

28th December 2021: Nepal U19 vs Kuwait U19 (Scorecard) ; Bangladesh U19 vs Sri Lanka U19 (Scorecard)

2021 U19 Asia Cup Squads

Pakistan U19: Qasim Akram (Captain), Abdul Faseeh, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Ahmed Khan,Ali Asfand, Arham Nawab, Awais Ali, Faisal Akram, Haseebullah, Irfan Khan Niazi, Maaz Sadaqat, Mehran Mumtaz, Mohammad Shehzad, Rizwan Mehmood and Zeeshan Zameer

Afghanistan U19: Suliman Safi (Captain), Ijaz Ahmadzai, Mohammad Ishaq (WK) Suliman Arabzai, Bilal Sayeedi, Allah Noor, Muhammadullah, Khyber Wali, Ijaz Ahmad, Izharulhaq Naweed, Noor Ahmad, Faisal Khan, Naweed Zadran, Bilal Sami, Nangyalai Khan, Khalil Ahmad, Abdul Hadi, Bilal Tarin, Shahid Hassani and Younis

Sri Lanka U19: Dunith Wellalage (Captain), Shevon Daniel, Anjala Bandara, Pawan Pathiraja, Sadisha Rajapaksa, Sadeesh Jayawardena, Wanuja Sahan Kumara, Raveen De Silva, Ranuda Somarathne, Malsha Tharupathi, Abhishek Liyanaarachchi, Traveen Mathew, Yasiru Rodrigo, Matheesha Pathirana, Chamidu Wickramasinghe, Vinuja Ranpul and Sakuna Liyanage

Bangladesh U19: Rakibul Hasan (Captain), Prantik Nawrose Nabil, Mahfijul Islam, Iftakhar Hossain Ifti, SM Meherob Hasan, Aich Mollah, Abdulla Al Mamun, Gazi Mohammad Tahjibul Islam, Ariful Islam, Md Fahim, Mohammad Musfik Hasan, Ripon Mondol, Md Ashiqur Zaman, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Naimur Rohman Noyon

Nepal U19: Dev Khanal (Captain), Sher Malla, Vivek Yadav, Santosh Karki, Arjun Kumal, Prakash Jaisi, Gulshan Jha, Adil Ansari, vasir Ahmed, Arjun Saud, Dipesh Kandel, Vivek Rana Magar, Tilak Raj Bhandari, Durgesh Gupta and Rahul Bhandari

India U19: Yash Dhull (Captain), Anneshwar Gautam, Siddharth Yadav, Kaushal Tambe, Nishant Sindhu, Dinnesh Bana, Aaradhya Yadav, Rajangad Bawa, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Garv Sangwan, Ravi Kumar, Rishith Reddy, Manav Parakh, Amrit Raj Upadhyay, Vicky Ostwal, Harnoor Singh Pannu, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ansh Gosai, S K Rashee and Vasu Vats (subject to fitness clearance)

UAE U19: Alishan Sharafu (Captain), Kai Smith, Dhruv Parashar, Punya Mehra, Ronak Panoly, Ali Aamer Naseer, Adithya Shetty, Soorya Sathish, Sailles Jaishankar, Vinayak Vijaya Raghavan, Aayan Khan, Aryansh Sharma, Jash Giyanani, Shival Bawa and Nilansh Keswani

Kuwait U19: Meet Bhavsar (Captain), Abdul Sadiq, Ethan Sanjay Cheran, Muhammad Amir Ali, Ahad Habier Ali, Abdullah Zaheer, Mohamed Raashiq Mohamed, Henry Thomas, Mohamad Thoufiq, Muhammad Abdullah Farooq, Mirza ahmed, Talha Hassan, Jude Christopher Saldania, Mohamed Bastaki and Muhammad Umer