2015 ACC Under-19 Premier League

2015 ACC Under-19 Premier League

Dates	28 August – 3 September 2015
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	50-over
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	Malaysia
Champions	Afghanistan (2nd title)
Participants	6
Matches played	15
Most runs	Hazratullah (314)
Most wickets	Yodhin Punja (14)

The 2015 ACC Under-19 Premier League was an international cricket tournament held in Malaysia from 28 August to 3 September 2015. It was the second edition of the ACC Under-19 Premier League, which is the highest division of the current ACC under-19 tournament system.

The tournament was played at three venues in Peninsular Malaysia – Kinrara Oval and Bayuemas Oval in the state of Selangor, and Kelab Aman in the federal territory of Kuala Lumpur. The participants were the same six teams as at the 2014 edition, and the same format was used, a single round-robin with no finals. Afghanistan went undefeated in its five matches to win the competition for a second consecutive time, with Nepal placing second and Malaysia.

Squads

Afghanistan[1]	Kuwait[2]	Malaysia[3]
Ihsanullah (c) Hazratullah Karim Janat Mohammad Wali Mohammad Zahir Muslim Musa Naveed Obaid Naveen-ul-Haq Nijat Masood Perwez Malakzai Rashid Khan Tariq Stanikzai Waheedullah Shafaq Zia-ur-Rehman	Shah Rukh Quddus (c) Abdul Haseeb Abdul Sadiq Allen Thomas Arsh Barkat Bilal Tahir Kishore Salunkey Manjot Singh Mohammad Meezan Morshed Mostafa Sarwar Mushtaq Ahmed Nomaan Siddiq Budroo Salman Khan Varun Bhavsar	Virandeep Singh (c) Syed Aziz (vc) Ainool Haqqiem Muhammad Hafiz Muhammad Hazim Ikhwan Johari Nik Nazran Vimallan Palaniandy Ammar Rahim Mahathir Razali Souhin Rusli Shankar Sathish Pavandeep Singh Zubaidi Zulkifle
Nepal[4]	Saudi Arabia[5]	United Arab Emirates[6]
Raju Rijal (c) Dipendra Airee Ashish Dhami Sunil Dhamala Sushil Kandel Yogendra Karki Saurabh Khanal Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi Shankar Rana Deepesh Shrestha Aarif Sheikh Rajbir Singh Sandeep Sunar Prem Tamang	Faisal Khan (c) Mohammed Farhan Patel (vc) Adnan Anwar Khan Arslan Amin Furkhan Sameer Mirza Ibrahim Baig Muhammad Mudassar Omar Imtiaz Sameeh Munshi Saud Iqbal Ahmed Saud Khan Shorif Mahmud Zain Khawaja Zayed Khan Afridi	Waruna Perera (c) Abdullah Asif Ahmed Jasim Ahsan Ali Atharva Kavi Ethan Holmes Kulith Rabel Mohammed Afsal Moiz Qazi Naseer Uddin Riyan Mohammed Sachin Jha Yodhin Punja Zafri Zafardeen

Points table

Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Afghanistan	5	5	0	0	0	10	+4.106
Nepal	5	4	1	0	0	8	+1.953
Malaysia	5	3	2	0	0	6	+0.725
United Arab Emirates	5	2	3	0	0	2	–0.377
Kuwait	5	1	4	0	0	2	–1.417
Saudi Arabia	5	0	5	0	0	0	–3.589
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1 September 2015

Fixtures

28 August Scorecard

Malaysia  286/5 (50 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 105 (32 overs)

Malaysia won by 181 runs Kinrara Oval, Bandar Kinrara Player of the match: Shankar Sathish (Mal)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bowl.

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28 August Scorecard

Nepal    199 (49.2 overs)	v	UAE 50 (20.5 overs)

Nepal won by 149 runs Bayuemas Oval, Klang Player of the match: Sushil Kandel (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.

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28 August Scorecard

Kuwait  104 (49.3 overs)	v	Afghanistan 105/2 (15.4 overs)

Afghanistan won by 8 wickets Kelab Aman, Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Muslim Musa (Afg)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to bat.

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29 August Scorecard

Nepal    123 (47.5 overs)	v	Afghanistan 127/0 (25 overs)

Afghanistan won by 10 wickets Kinrara Oval, Bandar Kinrara Player of the match: Zia-ur-Rehman (Afg)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.

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29 August Scorecard

Kuwait  150 (49.3 overs)	v	Malaysia 154/2 (37 overs)

Malaysia won by 8 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Klang Player of the match: Virandeep Singh (Mal)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bowl.

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29 August Scorecard

UAE  258 (50 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 93 (23.3 overs)

UAE won by 165 runs Kelab Aman, Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Yodhi Punja (UAE)

• UAE won the toss and elected to bat.

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31 August Scorecard

UAE  88 (30.5 overs)	v	Afghanistan 90/0 (12.5 overs)

Afghanistan won by 10 wickets Kinrara Oval, Bandar Kinrara Player of the match: Tariq Stanikzai (Afg)

• UAE won the toss and elected to bat.

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31 August Scorecard

Malaysia  75 (38 overs)	v	Nepal 77/2 (14.4 overs)

Nepal won by 8 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Klang Player of the match: Aarif Sheikh (Nep)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.

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31 August Scorecard

Kuwait  250 (50 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 126 (40 overs)

Kuwait won by 124 runs Kelab Aman, Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Mohammad Meezan (Kuw)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to bat.

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1 September Scorecard

Nepal    250/8 (50 overs)	v	Kuwait 167/9 (50 overs)

Nepal won by 83 runs Kinrara Oval, Bandar Kinrara Player of the match: Dipendra Airee (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.

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1 September Scorecard

Saudi Arabia  157 (39 overs)	v	Afghanistan 158/2 (16.5 overs)

Afghanistan won by 8 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Klang Player of the match: Hazratullah (Afg)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.

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1 September Scorecard

UAE  53 (20.3 overs)	v	Malaysia 59/5 (14 overs)

Malaysia won by 5 wickets Kelab Aman, Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Syed Aziz (Mal)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bowl.

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3 September Scorecard

Malaysia  105 (49.1 overs)	v	Afghanistan 109/3 (21.3 overs)

Afghanistan won by 7 wickets Kinrara Oval, Bandar Kinrara Player of the match: Naveen-ul-Haq (Afg)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.

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3 September Scorecard

Kuwait  60 (21.1 overs)	v	UAE 61/2 (7.4 overs)

UAE won by 8 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Klang Player of the match: Ashan Ali Khan (UAE)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to bat.

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3 September Scorecard

Saudi Arabia  55 (33.2 oves)	v	Nepal 56/1 (9 overs)

Nepal won by 9 wickets Kelab Aman, Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Sagar Kandel (Nep)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.

Statistics

Most runs

The top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.

Player	Team	Runs	Inns	Avg	S/R	Highest	100s	50s
Hazratullah	Afghanistan	314	5	157.00	120.30	98*	0	3
Mohammad Meezan	Kuwait	216	5	54.00	79.41	84*	0	2
Virandeep Singh	Malaysia	161	5	40.25	47.63	74*	0	2
Muhammad Zeyad	Saudi Arabia	137	5	27.40	82.03	71	0	1
Nasir Khan	Afghanistan	127	5	42.33	76.96	57*	0	1

Source: ESPNcricinfo

Most wickets

The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.

Player	Team	Overs	Wkts	Ave	SR	Econ	BBI
Yodhin Punja	United Arab Emirates	39.0	14	12.85	16.70	4.61	5/38
Sushil Kandel	Nepal	44.0	11	6.72	24.00	1.68	4/7
Zia-ur-Rehman	Afghanistan	44.0	10	9.70	26.40	2.20	3/18
Syed Aziz	Malaysia	24.0	9	12.11	16.00	4.54	5/30
Omar Imtiaz	Saudi Arabia	35.5	9	20.11	23.80	5.05	3/36

Source: ESPNcricinfo

References

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4. Subash Gautam (30 July 2015). "CAN announces squad for ACC U-19 Premier League" – CricNepal. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
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