2018–19 Vinoo Mankad Trophy

The 2018–19 Vinoo Mankad Trophy is the current season of the Vinoo Mankad Trophy, an Under-19s Limited overs cricket tournament in India.

2018–19 Vinoo Mankad Trophy

Dates	5 October – 4 November 2018
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	Limited overs cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Playoff format
Host(s)	Various
Champions	Vidarbha U19
Runners-up	Tamil Nadu U19
Participants	35
Matches	143
Most runs	Piyush Kumar Singh (534), Tilak Varma (507)
Most wickets	Rohit Dattatraya (28), Rex Singh (26)
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It is being contested by 35 domestic cricket teams of India, starting on 5 October 2018, ahead of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy. The tournament has four groups, with nine teams in Elite Groups A and B, and eight teams in Elite Group C. All the new teams were placed in the Plate Group. All the Elite Group A matches is being hosted in Surat by Surat District Cricket Association, affiliated to Gujarat Cricket Association from 5–24 October 2018.^[1]

Teams

The teams were drawn in the following groups:

EliteGroup A Assam Bengal Gujarat Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Mumbai Uttar Pradesh

Elite Group B Andhra Baroda Chhattisgarh Delhi Haryana Hyderabad Punjab Tripura Vidarbha

Elite Group C Goa Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Kerala Odisha Rajasthan Saurashtra Tamil Nadu

Plate Group Arunachal Pradesh Bihar Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Puducherry Sikkim Uttarakhand

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Mat	Inns	Runs	Ave	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Piyush Kumar Singh	Bihar	7	7	534	106.80	80.18	145	2	3	59	3
Tilak Varma	Hyderabad	8	8	507	84.50	71.91	102*	1	4	52	1
Rahul Chandrol	Madhya Pradesh	9	9	471	58.88	96.31	102	1	4	45	2
Last updated: 29 March 2015[2]

Most wickets

Player	Team	Mat	Inns	Wkts	Ave	Econ	BBI	SR
Rohit Dattatraya	Vidarbha	11	11	28	17.57	4.53	5/37	23.25
Rex Singh	Manipur	7	7	26	6.34	3.17	8/3	12.00
Amit Shukla	Punjab	8	8	22	12.22	3.49	6/47	21.00
Last updated: 23 November 2018[3]