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The ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup has long been a nursery for the games’ future stars and the 2022 tournament will be no different.
This month, the world’s most exciting teenagers will arrive en masse to the West Indies dreaming of runs, wickets and ultimately, glory.
However, they will have to go some to break some of the individual records that have been amassed in the previous 13 editions.
MOST RUNS
There’s a familiar name at the top of the runs column but instead of plundering boundaries for England, like he does now, Eoin Morgan competed for Ireland at the ICC U19 Men’s CWC in both 2004 and 2006.
He played 13 times across the two tournaments and underlined his class by scoring 606 runs at an average of 50.50, including two centuries.
Pakistan’s Babar Azam, another global superstar, is second on the list with 585, while other familiar names in the top 10 include West Indies’ Kraigg Brathwaite (548), India’s Shikhar Dhawan (505) and Australia’s Shaun Marsh (471).
Dhawan scored all 505 of his runs in just one tournament in 2004, the most by any one batter in one competition.
HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORE
West Indies’ Donovan Pagon held this record for 16 years but in the space of just six days, it was broken twice.
Pagon scored 176 against Scotland in 2002 in Dunedin and, again in New Zealand, the record fell in 2018.
First, it was home favourite Jakob Bhula who set a new highest score, as he hit 10 fours and five sixes in a 144-ball 180 against Kenya.
Kenya were back in action six days on and were again on the wrong side of history as Sri Lanka’s Hasitha Boyagoda his 28 fours in a 152-ball 191.
MOST CENTURIES
Most players only compete in a handful of ICC U19 Men’s CWC matches in their lives, so racking up hundreds can be difficult to do.
England’s Jack Burnham and India’s Dhawan currently share the record, with three each. Burnham set his across six matches in 2016, while Dhawan’s three also came in one edition of the tournament in 2004.
HIGHEST PARTNERSHIP
Burnham had a stellar campaign in 2016 and he holds another record alongside current England Test batter Dan Lawrence.
The pair put on a mighty 303 for the second wicket in England’s match against Fiji in 2016, a game they won by 299 runs.
Lawrence was named Player of the Match for his superb 174, while Burnham was not far behind by making 148.
New Zealand’s BJ Watling and Brad Wilson are second on this list, after combining for 273 against Scotland in 2004.
MOST WICKETS
The leading wicket-takers list is packed with familiar names. England’s Tim Bresnan, an Ashes series winner, took 25 wickets in 13 matches between 2002 and 2004, while South Africa’s left-arm paceman Wayne Parnell snared 23 in just nine.
But top of the order is Zimbabwe’s Wesley Madhevere, who competed in three tournaments in 2016, 2018 and the last in 2020.
The spinner has played 18 times and has 28 wickets to his name, with best figures of five for 24, but the most wickets in one tournament belongs to Bangladesh’s Enamul Haque – who took 22 in 2004.
That’s three more than Wayne Holdsworth (Australia, 1988), Mushtaq Ahmed (Pakistan, 1988), Riaz Afridi (Pakistan, 2004) and Reece Topley (England, 2012).
Afridi is also one of four players, alongside his compatriot Anwar Ali, Afghanistan’s Shafiqullah Ghafari and Ireland’s Greg Thompson, to take two five-wicket hauls.
BEST BOWLING FIGURES
Australia’s Lloyd Pope tore through England’s batting line-up in Queenstown in 2018, the leg-spinner taking an incredible eight for 35 from 9.4 overs.
Pope is the only player in tournament history to take eight wickets in an innings, but there are a few with seven – including current New Zealand star Trent Boult, who took seven for 20 against Malaysia in 2008.
MOST CATCHES
One for the wicketkeepers, India’s Sarfaraz Khan has taken the most catches in tournament history by safely grabbing 13 in 12 matches.
That’s one more than West Indies’ Narsingh Deonarine and three more than Zimbabwe’s Sean Ervine.
