2009 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier Explained

2009 ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier
Administrator:	ICC
Cricket Format:	50 overs
Tournament Format:	Round-robin
Host:	Canada
Champions:	(1st title)
Participants:	10
Most Runs:	Paul Stirling (423)
Most Wickets:	Zakiullah (21)
Next Year:	2011
Next Tournament:	2011 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.

Teams

Africa Under-19 Championship

(champion)
(runner-up)

Americas Under-19 Championship

(champion)
(runner-up)

ACC Under-19 Elite Cup

(champion)
(runner-up)

East Asia-Pacific Under-19 Trophy

(champion)
(runner-up)

Europe Under-19 Division One

(champion)
(runner-up)

Squads

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valign=top	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	valign=top	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	valign=top	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	valign=top	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	valign=top	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
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valign=top	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	valign=top	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	valign=top	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	valign=top	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	valign=top	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.

width=200	Team	width=20 abbr="Played"	P	width=20 abbr="Won"	W	width=20 abbr="Lost"	L	width=20 abbr="No result"	NR	width=20 abbr="Tied"	T	width=40 abbr="Net run rate"	NRR	width=20 abbr="Points"	Pts
	9	8	1	0	0	1.648	16
	9	7	2	0	0	1.001	14
	9	7	2	0	0	0.459	14
	9	7	2	0	0	0.388	14
	9	6	3	0	0	0.34	12
	9	3	6	0	0	-0.251	6
	9	3	6	0	0	-0.508	6
	9	3	6	0	0	-1.125	6
	9	1	8	0	0	-2.183	2
	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]

Statistics

Most runs

The top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.

Runs	Inns	Avg	Highest	100s	50s
423	8	52.87	164	2	1
369	8	52.71	105	1	3
294	8	36.75	102	1	1
293	8	41.85	90	0	3
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.

Overs	Wkts	Ave	SR	Econ	BBI
72.3	21	11.09	20.71	3.21	6/27
77.0	17	15.58	27.17	3.44	5/20
57.0	17	15.94	20.11	4.75	5/38
68.0	16	12.06	25.50	2.83	4/13
61.4	15	14.46	25.50	2.83	7/34