U19 World Cup 2020 – All you need to know (Fixtures, Squads and Live Streaming Details)
The first edition of the tournament in 1998 was also hosted by South Africa.
Another edition of the U19 World Cup – an excellent platform for young, budding cricketers is set to entertain the fans. Here is where boys become men and put one step closer to getting into the national team. The 2020 edition of the tournament is set to feature 16 teams in total who will fight it out in 48 games overall before the champion gets to lift the coveted trophy.
South Africa is set to host U19 World Cup 2020 and the tournament will follow a round-robin format followed by knockouts. The tournament will commence on 17 January 2020 and will come to a close on 9 February 2020. The 16 teams taking part have been split into groups of four. While the top two teams advance to the Super League, the bottom two will play the Plate League. Team India, led by Priyam Garg, will enter into this tournament as the defending champions.
Groups for the U19 World Cup 2020
Group A: India, Japan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka
Group B: Australia, England, Nigeria, West Indies
Group C: Bangladesh, Pakistan, Scotland, Zimbabwe
Group D: Afghanistan, Canada, South Africa, United Arab Emirates
Fixtures for the U19 World Cup 2020
Jan 17, Fri
South Africa U19 vs Afghanistan U19, 1st Match, Group D
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Jan 18, Sat
Bangladesh U19 vs Zimbabwe U19, 2nd Match, Group C
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
New Zealand U19 vs Japan U19, 3rd Match, Group A
North-West University No1 Ground, Potchefstroom
United Arab Emirates U19 vs Canada U19, 4th Match, Group D
Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein
Australia U19 vs West Indies U19, 5th Match, Group B
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Jan 19, Sun
India U19 vs Sri Lanka U19, 7th Match, Group A
Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein
Pakistan U19 vs Scotland U19, 6th Match, Group C
North-West University No1 Ground, Potchefstroom
Jan 20, Mon
England U19 vs West Indies U19, 8th Match, Group B
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Australia U19 vs Nigeria U19, 9th Match, Group B
Country Club B Field, Kimberley
Jan 21, Tue
Bangladesh U19 vs Scotland U19, 10th Match, Group C
Witrand Cricket Field, Potchefstroom
India U19 vs Japan U19, 11th Match, Group A
Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein
Jan 22, Wed
South Africa U19 vs Canada U19, 12th Match, Group D
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Afghanistan U19 vs United Arab Emirates U19, 13th Match, Group D
North-West University No1 Ground, Potchefstroom
Pakistan U19 vs Zimbabwe U19, 14th Match, Group C
Witrand Cricket Field, Potchefstroom
New Zealand U19 vs Sri Lanka U19, 15th Match, Group A
Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein
Jan 23, Thu
Australia U19 vs England U19, 16th Match, Group B
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
West Indies U19 vs Nigeria U19, 17th Match, Group B
Country Club B Field, Kimberley
Jan 24, Fri
India U19 vs New Zealand U19, 20th Match, Group A
Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein
Afghanistan U19 vs Canada U19, 19th Match, Group D
North-West University No2 Ground, Potchefstroom
Pakistan U19 vs Bangladesh U19, 18th Match, Group C
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Jan 25, Sat
Sri Lanka U19 vs Japan U19, 21st Match, Group A
North-West University No1 Ground, Potchefstroom
Zimbabwe U19 vs Scotland U19, 22nd Match, Group C
Witrand Cricket Field, Potchefstroom
South Africa U19 vs United Arab Emirates U19, 23rd Match, Group D
Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein
England U19 vs Nigeria U19, 24th Match, Group B
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Jan 27, Mon
TBC vs TBC, Plate Quarter-Final 2
Witrand Cricket Field, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, Plate Quarter-Final 1
North-West University No2 Ground, Potchefstroom
Jan 28, Tue
TBC vs TBC, Super League Quarter-Final 1
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, Plate Quarter-Final 3
North-West University No2 Ground, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, Plate Quarter-Final 4
Witrand Cricket Field, Potchefstroom
Jan 29, Wed
TBC vs TBC, Super League Quarter-Final 2
Willowmoore Park, Benoni
Jan 30, Thu
TBC vs TBC, Plate Playoff Semi-Final 2
North-West University No2 Ground, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, Plate Playoff Semi-Final 1
Witrand Cricket Field, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, Plate Semi-Final 1
North-West University No1 Ground, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, Super League Quarter-Final 3
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Jan 31, Fri
TBC vs TBC, Super League Quarter-Final 4
Willowmoore Park, Benoni
TBC vs TBC, Plate Semi-Final 2
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Feb 01, Sat
TBC vs TBC, 13th Place Playoff
Witrand Cricket Field, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, 15th Place Playoff
North-West University No2 Ground, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, 5th Place Playoff Semi-Final 1
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Feb 02, Sun
TBC vs TBC, 5th Place Playoff Semi-Final 2
North-West University No1 Ground, Potchefstroom
TBC vs TBC, 11th Place Playoff
Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Feb 03, Mon
TBC vs TBC, Plate Final
Willowmoore Park, Benoni
Feb 04, Tue
TBC vs TBC, Super League Semi-Final 1
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Feb 05, Wed
TBC vs TBC, 7th Place Playoff
Willowmoore Park, Benoni
Feb 06, Thu
TBC vs TBC, Super League Semi-Final 2
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
Feb 07, Fri
TBC vs TBC, 5th Place Playoff
Willowmoore Park, Benoni
Feb 08, Sat
TBC vs TBC, 3rd Place Playoff
Willowmoore Park, Benoni
Feb 09, Sun
TBC vs TBC, Final
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
(All games start at 10:00 AM Local time (08:00 AM UTC) (01:30 PM IST)
Squads for the U19 World Cup 2020
New Zealand
Jesse Tashkoff (Captain), Kristian Clarke, Adithya Ashok, Hayden Dickson, Joey Field, Simon Keene, Fergus Lellman, Nicholas Lidstone, David Hancock, Rhys Mariu, William O’Rourke, Ben Pomare, Quinn Sunde, Oliver White, Beckham Wheeler-Greenall.
Sri Lanka
Nipun Dananjaya (Captain), Sonal Dinusha, Ashian Daniel, Thaveesha Kahaduwaarachchi, Kamil Mishara, Dilshan Madushanka, Kavindu Nadeeshan, Navod Paranavithana, Matheesha Pathirana, Ravindu Rasantha, Mohammed Shamaaz, Amshi de Silva, Sudeera Thilakaratne, Ahan Wickramasinghe, Chamindu Wijesinghe.
England
George Balderson (Captain), Ben Charlesworth, Tom Clark, Kasey Aldridge, Jordan Cox, Scott Currie, Blake Cullen, Harry Duke, Joey Evison, Lewis Goldsworthy, Jack Haynes, Dan Mousley, George Hill, Sam Young, Hamidullah Qadri.
Canada
Ashtan Deosammy (Captain), Benjamin Calitz, Harmandeep Singh Bedi, Arshdeep Dhaliwal, Rishiv Joshi, Gurjot Gosal, Muhammad Kamal, Akhil Kumar, Nicholas Manohar, Randhir Sandhu, Eshan Sensarma, Raqib Shamsudeen, Ayush Verma, Udaybir Walia, Mihir Patel.
India
Priyam Garg (Captain), Dhruv Jurel, Tilak Varma, Divyaansh Saxena, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Divyansh Joshi, Shashwat Rawat, Shubhang Hegde, Ravi Bishnoi, Akash Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Atharva Ankolekar, Sushant Mishra, Vidyadhar Patil, Kumar Kushagra.
Japan
Marcus Thurgate (Captain), Max Clements, Neel Date, Tushar Chaturvedi, Kento Ota-Dobell, Sora Ichiki, Ishaan Fartyal, Leon Mehlig, Masato Morita, Shu Noguchi, Yugandhar Retharekar, Reiji Suto, Debashish Sahoo, Kazumasa Takahashi, Ashley Thurgate.
Australia
Cooper Connolly, Sam Fanning, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Oliver Davies, Mackenzie Harvey, Corey Kelly, Liam Marshall, Lachlan Hearne, Todd Murphy, Patrick Rowe, Tanveer Sangha, Liam Scott, Bradley Simpson, Connor Sully, Matthew Willans.
Afghanistan
Farhan Zakhil (Captain), Sediqullah Atal, Noor Ahmad, Shafiqullah Ghafari, Fazal Haque, Imran Mir, Jamshid Miralikhil, Abid Mohammadi, Ishaq Mohammadi, Asif Musazai, Abdul Rahman, Abidullah Taniwal, Rahmanullah Zadran, Zohaib Zamankhil, Ibrahim Zadran.
Bangladesh
Akbar Ali (Captain), Mrittunjoy Chowdhury, Towhid Hridoy, Avishek Das, Parvez Hossain Emon, Tanzid Hasan, Rakibul Hasan, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Shahadat Hossain, Shamim Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Hasan Murad, Prantik Nawrose Nabil, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mohammad Shahin.
Nigeria
Sylvester Okpe (Captain), Rasheed Abolarin, Peter Aho, Mohammed Taiwo, Shehu Audu, Oche Boniface Isaac Danladi, Miracle Akhigbe, Miracle Ikaige, Akhere Isesele, Abdulrahman Jimoh, Samuel Mba, Olayinka Olaleye, Sulaimon Runsewe, Ifeanyichukwu Uboh.
Pakistan
Rohail Nazir (Captain), Haider Ali, Qasim Akram, Abbas Afridi, Aamir Ali, Abdul Bangalzai, Mohammad Haris, Fahad Munir, Mohammad Huraira, Tahir Hussain, Arish Ali Khan, Mohammad Irfan Khan, Amir Khan, Mohammad Shehzad, Mohammad Wasim.
Scotland
Angus Guy (Captain), Jamie Cairns, Jasper Davidson, Daniel Cairns, Ben Davidson, Sean Fischer-Keogh, Callum Grant, Rory Hanley, Tom Mackintosh, Durness Mackay-Champion, Euan McBeth, Liam Naylor, Uzzair Shah, Kess Sajjad, Charlie Pee.
South Africa
Bryce Parsons (Captain), Luke Beaufort, Khanya Cotani, Jonathan Bird, Merrick Brett, Gerald Coetzee, Tyrese Karelse, Mondli Khumalo, Achille Cloete, Jack Lees, Andrew Louw, Levert Manje, Odirile Modimokoane, Pheku Moletsane, Tiaan van Vuuren.
UAE
Aryan Lakra (Captain), Chathiyan Dashan, Muhammad Farazuddin, Vriitya Aravind, Jonathan Figy, Osama Hassan, Rishabh Mukherjee, Ali Naseer, Palaniapan Meiyappan, Wasi Shah, Alishan Sharafu, Sanchit Sharma, Kai Smith, Akasha Tahir, Ansh Tandon.
West Indies
Kimani Melius (Captain), Daniel Beckford, Kelvon Anderson, Joshua James, Matthew Forde, Mbeki Joseph, Leonardo Julien, Avinash Mahabirsingh, Kirk McKenzie, Antonio Morris, Ashmead Nedd, Matthew Patrick, Jayden Seales, Nyeem Young, Ramon Simmonds.
Zimbabwe
Dion Myers (Captain), Wesley Madhevere, Emmanuel Bawa, Gareth Chirawu, Priviledge Chesa, Ahomed Rameez Ebrahim, Dylan Grant, Brandon James, Tadiwanashe Marumani, Tadiwanashe Nyangani, Luke Oldknow, Samuel Ruwisi, Dane Schadendorf, Milton Shumba, Taurayi Tugwete.
Broadcast and Live Streaming Details for the U19 World Cup 2020
Territory |
TV |
Website |
Mobile |
Afghanistan | Moby TV | — | — |
Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan | — | Hotstar.com | Hotstar |
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Palestine and Western Sahara | OSN Cricket HD OSN Sports 5 HD |
OSN.com/play Wavo.com |
OSN Play Wavo |
Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Falkland Isles, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Saba, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustatius, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tortola (British Virgin Isles), Trinidad, Tobago, Turks and Caicos | ESPN Caribbean ESPN 2 Caribbean |
espn.co.uk/Caribbean | ESPN Play Caribbean |
Argentina, Aruba, Ascension Island, Belize, Bolivia, Bonaire, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela | — | ESPN.com ESPN.com/watch |
Watch ESPN Brazil ESPN Play South ESPN Play North |
Australia | Fox Sports 506 Fox Sports 507 |
Foxsports.com.au | Foxtel NOW |
Bangladesh | GTV | TBC | TBC |
Brunei, Hong Kong, Malaysia & Singapore | Star Cricket | — | — |
Canada | ATN HD Cricket Plus CBS |
www.asiantelevision.com Hotstar.com |
Hotstar |
Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Poland, Republic of Macedonia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Gibraltar, Greece, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Monaco, Cyprus, Vatican City, Georgia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland | — | Hotstar.com | Hotstar |
England, Wales, Scotland and Republic of Ireland | Sky Sports | skysports.com | Sky Go |
Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, Nauru, Samoa, Tuvalu, Kiribati, American Samoa, Niue, Tokelau, Vanuatu, Tahiti and New Caledonia | — | Hotstar.com | Hotstar |
India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan and Bangladesh | Star Sports 1 Star Sports HD1 Star Sports 2 Star Sports HD2 Star Sports 3 Star Sports HD3 Star Sports Hindi Star Sports Hindi HD |
Hotstar.com | Hotstar |
Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Fiji |
— | Hotstar.com | Hotstar |
New Zealand | Sky Sport 1, Sky Sport 2, Sky Sport 3, Sky Sport 506 | Sky.co.nz/ Fanpass.co.nz/ skygo.co.nz/livetv/ |
Fan Pass |
Pakistan | PTV Sports Ten Sports |
SonyLiv.com Tensports.com.pk |
— |
Sri Lanka | SLRC (Channel Eye) | Channeleye.lk | — |
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros Islands, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, St Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaire and Zimbabwe | SuperSport 5 SuperSport 5 Africa SuperSport 5 Nigeria SuperSport 6 SuperSport 6 Africa |
Supersport.com | SuperSport |
United States of America, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa | Willow TV Willow Xtra |
Willowtv.com Sling.com |
Hotstar |
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