Under 19 World Cup winners list: How many times India has won U 19 Cricket World Cup?

Gurpreet Singh | 19/12/2021
Under 19 World Cup winners list: How many times India has won U 19 Cricket World Cup?

Under 19 World Cup winners list: Team India has lifted the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup for the maximum times in the tournament’s history. 

The BCCI’s all-India Junior Selection Committee on Sunday, announced a 17-member Team India squad for the upcoming ICC Under-19 men’s World Cup set to commence from January 14 in West Indies.

Delhi’s Yash Dhull has been named as team India’s skipper for the tournament with Andhra Pradesh’s SK Rasheed picked as his deputy.

The Priyam Garg-led Indian Under-19 side had agonizingly lost the final of the previous edition of the World Cup in 2020 against Bangladesh by 3 wickets in what was a humdinger of a match at Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Rajasthan Royals’ opening batter Yashasvi Jaiswal was adjudged the ‘Player of the Tournament’ for amassing 400 runs across 6 innings at a stupendous average of 133.33.

Rajasthan and former Punjab Kings’ leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi was the tournament’s leading wicket-taker with 17 wickets across 6 innings at an average of 10.64.

Under 19 World Cup winners list: How many times has India lifted the U-19 World Cup?

India is the most successful team in the tournament’s history having lifted the coveted silverware four times in 2000, 2008, 2012 and 2018. They also finished as runner-ups in 2016 and 2020 edition of the tournament.

Team India, led by Prithvi Shaw had last lifted the trophy in 2018 by comfortably defeating Australia by 8 wickets in the final played at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. India had first won the tournament in the year 2000 under the captaincy of Mohammad Kaif.

Australia stand second having won the tournament thrice in 1988, 2002, and 2010 while Pakistan have won the coveted silverware twice in 2004 and 2006.

England (1998), West Indies (2016), South Africa (2014) and Bangladesh (2020) have won bagged the silverware one time each in the 13 overall editions of the tournament.

Under 19 World Cup winners list

Winner Runner-up              Year/Host
Australia Pakistan 1988/Australia
England New Zealand 1998/ South Africa
India Sri Lanka 2000/Sri Lanka
Australia South Africa 2002/New Zealand
Pakistan West Indies 2004/Bangladesh
Pakistan India 2006/Sri Lanka
India South Africa 2008/Malaysia
Australia Pakistan 2010/New Zealand
India Australia 2012/Australia
South Africa Pakistan 2014/UAE
West Indies India 2016/Bangladesh
India Australia 2018/New Zealand
Bangladesh India 2020/South Africa
TBD TBD 2022/West Indies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Post Edited By: Gurpreet Singh
BCCI ICC Under 19 World Cup 2022 Team India

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Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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