2009 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier

The 2009 ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier was an international cricket tournament played in Canada from 1 to 13 September 2009. All matches were held in Toronto. The tournament served as the final state of the qualification process for the 2010 Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. Ten teams participated in the event, with the top six teams progressing to the World Cup.

2009 ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier

Administrator(s)	ICC
Cricket format	50 overs
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	Canada
Champions	Ireland (1st title)
Participants	10
Most runs	Paul Stirling (423)
Most wickets	Zakiullah (21)
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Teams

Africa Under-19 Championship  Uganda (champion)  Sierra Leone (runner-up) Americas Under-19 Championship  Canada (champion)  United States (runner-up) ACC Under-19 Elite Cup  Hong Kong (champion)  Afghanistan (runner-up)

East Asia-Pacific Under-19 Trophy  Papua New Guinea (champion)  Vanuatu (runner-up) Europe Under-19 Division One  Ireland (champion)  Netherlands (runner-up)

Squads

Afghanistan[1]	Canada[2]	Hong Kong[3]	Ireland[4]	Netherlands[5]
Shir Mohammad (c) Afsar Zazai Aimal Wafa Asghar Hotak Ayan Aminzai Ayoub Ahmadzai Ayub Khan Iqbal Maliki Izatullah Dawlatzai Javed Ahmadi Khushal Rasooli Noor-ul-Haq Zakiullah Zard Ali	Rustam Bhatti (c) Manny Aulakh Darius D'Souza Ruvindu Gunasekera Hardik Kotak Abishek Krishnamoorthy Nitish Kumar Usman Limbada Asif Manjra Salman Nazar Hiral Patel Riyaz Pathan Arsalan Qadir Hamza Tariq	James Atkinson (c) Irfan Ahmed Niaz Ali Waqas Barkat Shivang Baid Ashish Gadhia Aditya Kanthan Aizaz Khan Asif Khan Nizakat Khan Zuaid Khan Gurjant Singh Vikash Vaswani	Andy Balbirnie (c) Ben Ackland Adrian D'Arcy George Dockrell Shane Getkate Graeme McCarter Graham McDonnell Lee Nelson Stuart Poynter Eddie Richardson James Shannon Paul Stirling Stuart Thompson Craig Young	Tim Gruijters (c) Sebastiaan Braat Lucas Brouwers Dennis Coster Quirijn Gunning Mels Hartman Floris Kingma Oliver Klaus Gangandeep Singh Vinoo Tewarie Philip van der Brandeler Paul van Meekeren Ferdi Vink Tobias Visee
Papua New Guinea[6]	Sierra Leone[7]	Uganda[8]	United States[9]	Vanuatu[10]
John Reva (c) Charles Amini Mea Ao Sese Bau Jonathan Diho Steven Eno Raymond Haoda Jason Kila Vagi Oala Rogeauka Roge Heni Siaka Lega Tau Toua Tom Tony Ura	Abu Kamara (c) Brima Ansumana Mohamed Bangura Musa Ganda Ibrahim Kabia Ibrahim Kamara Osman Kamara Balowa Mansaray Ibrahim Mansaray Jacob Mansaray Edward Marrah Emmanuel Pessima Julius Quee Bami Williams	Ahmed Yakub (c) Daniel Batuwa Suliman Hamid Brian Masaba Deusdedit Muhumuza Emmanuel Nakaana Geoffrey Nyero Andrew Ochan Abraham Oduch Moses Okwera Ahmad Sangau Henry Ssenyondo Dennis Tabby	Shiva Vashishat (c) Salman Ahmad Regis Burton Ryan Corns Muhammad Ghous Naseer Jamali Abhijit Joshi Andy Mohammed Saqib Saleem Greg Sewdial Yash Shah Hammad Shahid Saami Siddiqui Henry Wardley	Simpson Obed (c) Lazaro Carlot Jelany Chilia Worford Kalworai Kendy Kenneth Trevor Langa Karl Laau Steven Lynch Nalin Nipiko MacDonald Obed Kenny Tari Tommy Tastuki Niko Unavalu

Round-robin

Points table

^[11] The top six teams of the tournament qualified for the 2010 U-19 Cricket World Cup.

Team	P	W	L	NR	T	NRR	Pts
Ireland	9	8	1	0	0	1.648	16
Afghanistan	9	7	2	0	0	1.001	14
Papua New Guinea	9	7	2	0	0	0.459	14
Canada	9	7	2	0	0	0.388	14
United States	9	6	3	0	0	0.34	12
Hong Kong	9	3	6	0	0	-0.251	6
Uganda	9	3	6	0	0	-0.508	6
Netherlands	9	3	6	0	0	-1.125	6
Vanuatu	9	1	8	0	0	-2.183	2
Sierra Leone	9	0	9	0	0		0

Fixtures

All the matches of the tournament were played in Toronto.

Sierra Leone were unable to participate in this tournament due to visa problems;^[12] their matches were scratched and their opponents were awarded two points.^[13]

1 September 2009

Canada  106 (42.1 overs)	v	Uganda 62 (32 overs)

Canada won by 44 runs

1 September 2009

Hong Kong  160 (49.4 overs)	v	Papua New Guinea 161/6 (40.2 overs)
Irfan Ahmed (88) RC Haoda 5/24		TP Ura (65) Aizaz Khan 2/24

Uganda won by 4 wickets. Maple Leaf South-East Ground Umpires: CA McElwee and T Magee Player of the match: TP Ura

1 September 2009

Ireland  254/5 (50 overs)	v	Netherlands 179/9 (50 overs)

Ireland won by 75 runs.

1 September 2009

United States  168 (48.4 overs)	v	Vanuatu 121 (35.2 overs)

USA won by 47 runs.

1 September 2009

Afghanistan	v	Sierra Leone

Afghanistan won (walkover without a ball bowled)

2 September 2009

Canada  245/6 (50 overs)	v	Papua New Guinea 193/9 (50 overs)

Papua New Guinea won by 52 runs

2 September 2009

Netherlands  113 (45.5 overs)	v	Hong Kong 81 (32.4 overs)

Netherlands won by 32 runs

2 September 2009

United States	v	Sierra Leone

USA won (walkover without a ball bowled)

2 September 2009

Vanuatu  213/9 (50 overs)	v	Uganda 215/6 (47.1 overs)

Uganda won by 4 wickets

3 September 2009

Ireland  289/7 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan 217 (45.1 overs)

Ireland won by 72 runs

4 September 2009

Hong Kong  195 (49.2 overs)	v	Afghanistan 197/4 (42.3 overs)

Afghanistan won by 6 wickets

4 September 2009

Canada  220 (49.3 overs)	v	Netherlands 143 (44.1 overs)

Canada won by 77 runs

4 September 2009

United States  217/6 (50 overs)	v	Ireland 175 (46.3 overs)

USA won by 42 runs

4 September 2009

Papua New Guinea  234/5 (50 overs)	v	Uganda 142 (43.3 overs)

Papua New Guinea won by 92 runs

4 September 2009

Sierra Leone	v	Vanuatu

Vanuatu won (walkover without a ball bowled) Umpires: Unknown

5 September 2009

Vanuatu  111 (27.2 overs)	v	Afghanistan 115/2 (21.2 overs)

Afghanistan won by 8 wickets

5 September 2009

Canada  277/6 (50 overs)	v	Hong Kong 220/8 (50 overs)

Canada won by 57 runs

5 September 2009

Ireland  273/6 (50 overs)	v	Papua New Guinea 200 (43.5 overs)

Ireland won by 73 runs

5 September 2009

Netherlands	v	Sierra Leone

Netherlands won (walkover without a ball bowled) Umpires: Unknown

5 September 2009

Uganda  135 (45.3 overs)	v	United States 192/8 (50 overs)

USA won by 57 runs

7 September 2009

Afghanistan  241/9 (50 overs)	v	United States 205 (49.1 overs)

Afghanistan won by 36 runs

7 September 2009

Ireland  193/8 (50 overs)	v	Canada 164 (47.3 overs)

Ireland won by 29 runs

7 September 2009

Hong Kong  189/9 (50 overs)	v	Uganda 184 (48 overs)

Hong Kong won by 5 runs

7 September 2009

Netherlands  270/8 (50 overs)	v	Vanuatu 197 (46.3 overs)

Netherlands won by 73 runs

7 September 2009

Papua New Guinea	v	Sierra Leone

Papua New Guinea won (walkover without a ball bowled)

8 September 2009

Uganda  182 (49.1 overs)	v	Afghanistan 183/7 (43 overs)

Afghanistan won by 3 wickets

8 September 2009

Canada	v	Sierra Leone

Canada won (walkover without a ball bowled)

8 September 2009

Ireland  252/7 (50 overs)	v	Hong Kong 158 (45.4 overs)

Ireland won by 94 runs

8 September 2009

Netherlands  171 (45.4 overs)	v	United States 204 (48.4 overs)

USA won by 33 runs

8 September 2009

Papua New Guinea  195/5 (41.1 overs)	v	Vanuatu 193 (43.5 overs)

Papua New Guinea won by 5 wickets

10 September 2009

Afghanistan  272 (49.5 overs)	v	Netherlands 89 (21.2 overs)

Afghanistan won by 183 runs

10 September 2009

Canada  303/8 (50 overs)	v	Vanuatu 280 (45.4 overs)

Canada won by 23 runs

10 September 2009

Hong Kong	v	Sierra Leone

Hong Kong won (walkover without a ball bowled)

10 September 2009

Ireland  252/8 (50 overs)	v	Uganda 185 (47.2 overs)

Ireland won by 67 runs

10 September 2009

Papua New Guinea  180/9 (49.4 overs)	v	United States 179 (47.4 overs)

PNG won by one wicket

11 September 2009

Afghanistan  202/4 (36 overs)	v	Papua New Guinea 197 (50 overs)

Afghanistan won by 6 wickets

11 September 2009

United States  234 (49.2 overs)	v	Canada 235/7 (48.3 overs)

Canada won by 3 wickets

11 September 2009

Hong Kong  30/2 (8.3 overs)	v	Vanuatu 28 (9.2 overs)

Hong Kong won by 8 wickets

11 September 2009

Ireland	v	Sierra Leone

Ireland won (walkover without a ball bowled)

11 September 2009

Netherlands  93 (36.3 overs)	v	Uganda 94/8 (26.1 overs)

Uganda won by 2 wickets

13 September 2009

Canada  166/5 (43.4 overs)	v	Afghanistan 165 (40.4 overs)

Canada won by 5 wickets

13 September 2009

Hong Kong  210/8 (50 overs)	v	United States 211/9 (49.5 overs)

United States of America Under-19s won by 1 wicket

13 September 2009

Ireland  373/5 (50 overs)	v	Vanuatu 82 (14.1 overs)

Ireland won by 291 runs

13 September 2009

Netherlands  168 (48.3 overs)	v	Papua New Guinea 254/7 (50 overs)

PNG won by 86 runs

13 September 2009

Uganda	v	Sierra Leone

Uganda won (walkover without a ball bowled)

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
Paul Stirling	Ireland	423	8	52.87	164	2	1
Ayoub Ahmadzai	Afghanistan	369	8	52.71	105	1	3
Andy Balbirnie	Ireland	294	8	36.75	102	1	1
Irfan Ahmed	Hong Kong	293	8	41.85	90	0	3
Usman Limbada	Canada	288	8	36.00	126	1	0

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
Zakiullah	Afghanistan	72.3	21	11.09	20.71	3.21	6/27
Hiral Patel	Canada	77.0	17	15.58	27.17	3.44	5/20
Saqib Saleem	United States	57.0	17	15.94	20.11	4.75	5/38
Lucas Brouwers	Netherlands	68.0	16	12.06	25.50	2.83	4/13
John Reva	Papua New Guinea	61.4	15	14.46	25.50	2.83	7/34

Source: CricketArchive

See also

• Cricket portal

• 2010 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup