The 2000
ICC Under-19 World Cup was an international
limited-overs cricket tournament played in Sri Lanka from 11 to 28 January 2000. It was the third edition of the
Under-19 Cricket World Cup and the first to be held in Sri Lanka.
The 2000 World Cup was contested by sixteen teams, including three making their tournament debuts. After an initial group stage, the top eight teams played off in a
super league
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to decide the tournament champions, with the non-qualifiers playing a separate
"plate" competition. Portions of the group stage were heavily impacted by rain, especially in
Group C, where only two matches could be played to completion. In
the final
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, played at
Colombo's
Sinhalese Sports Club
The Singhalese Sports Club (SSC) is a first-class cricket club in Sri Lanka. Singhalese is the most successful club in Sri Lankan domestic cricket, having won the Premier Trophy a record 32 times to 2017. Although the name is correctly spelt wi ...
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India defeated
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
by six wickets. Both teams had made the final for the first time. Indian all-rounder
Yuvraj Singh was named player of the tournament, while
South Africa's
Graeme Smith was the leading run-scorer and
Pakistan's
Zahid Saeed
Zahid Saeed (born July 5, 1981 in Alo Mahar, Punjab) is a right-handed Pakistani cricketer who bowls left-arm at a fast-medium pace. He played for Pakistan in the U-19 Cricket World Cup in both 1998 and 2000, finishing as the leading wicket-taker ...
was the leading wicket-taker.
Teams and qualification
The nine
full members of the
International Cricket Council (ICC) qualified automatically for the World Cup, while another seven teams qualified via other paths.
Bangladesh and
Nepal qualified as the top two teams at the 1999 Youth Asia Cup, while
Ireland and the
Netherlands did likewise through the 1999
European Under-19 Championship. The
ICC Africa Under-19 Championships were not established until 2001, but
Kenya and
Namibia were invited to the World Cup as the top
ICC associate members in Africa. There was also no qualification tournament held in the
Americas development region, with instead a combined regional team being fielded (for the first and only time).
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Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Plate competition
The plate competition was contested by the eight teams that failed to qualify for the
Super League
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Group 1
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Group 2
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Plate Semi-finals
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Plate Final
Super League
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Group 2
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Semi-finals
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Final
References
{{ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup
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2000 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup