The 2003 Youth Asia Cup was an international under-19 cricket tournament held in Karachi, Pakistan, from 14 to 27 July 2003. The fifth ACC under-19 tournament to be held, it was originally scheduled to be held in Singapore, but was moved to Karachi as a precaution against the SARS outbreak. The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) shared organising responsibilities.Youth Asia Cup 2003 - Karachi, 14-27 July 2003 – Hong Kong Cricket Association. Retrieved 9 July 2015.

Nepal defeated Malaysia in the final, winning its second title and qualifying for the 2004 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh.(27 July 2003). "Nepal book a berth for Youth World Cup 2004" – CricInfo. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Played during the usual off-season in Pakistan, the tournament was heavily impacted by monsoon rains – three matches (including the final) were shortened, three ended in no result (including a semi-final), and five were abandoned entirely (including the other semi-final), with no play possible.Youth Asia Cup 2003 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2015. The player of the tournament was Oman's Adnan Ilyas, who was the leading runscorer,Batting and fielding in Youth Asia Cup 2003 (ordered by runs) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2015. and also one of three players who led the tournament's wicket-taking, alongside Nepal's Manjeet Shrestha and Kuwait's Waqas Jamil.Bowling in Youth Asia Cup 2003 (ordered by wickets) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2015.

Squads

Hong Kong Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Kuwait Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Malaysia Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Maldives Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Nepal Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Kieran Kumaria (c) Zain Abbas Irfan Ahmed Nadeem Ahmed Skhawat Ali Moazzam Ayub Colin Bridges Courtney Kruger Nicholas Lau Matthew Lind (wk) Ansir Mahmood Yogesh Mahtani Ghulam Mustafa Zaran Vachha Adeel Mirza (c) Abdullah Iftikhar Abdur Rahman Ahmed Ebrahim Mohammad Ali Shahzad Ali Talib Arnav Dutta Emad Al-Jassam Faisal Mohammad Habibullah Iftikhar Hamza Arif (wk) Khalid Al-Mutawa Othman Abdul Aziz Saim Shibli Sajid Ashraf Waqas Jamil Yasar Idrees Zeeshan Ahmed Eszrafiq Azis (c) Anwar Arudin Saiful Hawari Suhan Kumar Joshua Mahadevan Stephen Maxwell Ariffin Ramly Mohammad Razman Shanmugam Sathiswaran Mohammad Shukri Manrick Singh Sambo Tamilarasan Satgunasingam Vickneswaran Rosman Zakaria (wk) Mohamed Mahfooz (c) Ahmed Hassan Ahmed Ismail Hassan Aflam Hassan Ibrahim (wk) Hassan Miras Hussain Adnan Hussain Izwan Hussain Riman Hussain Rishwan Mohamed Habeeb Mohamed Idhaam Mohamed Imran Mohamed Sais Mohamed Shubiab Mohamed Sobir Mohamed Waseem Umar Jamal Shakti Gauchan (c) Pramod Basnet Prem Chaudhary Kanishka Chaugai Manoj Katuwal (wk) Paras Khadka Deepesh Khatri Ratan Kumar Lakpa Lama Manjeet Shrestha Raj Shrestha Irfan Siddique Yashwant Subedi Sharad Veswakar Oman Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Qatar Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Singapore Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Thailand Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. UAE Squad – Youth Asia Cup 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Rafeeq Al Balushi (c) Rostam Ali Khan Ansar Ansari Hussain Bilal Asad Haider Mehndi Hassan Adnan Ilyas Abbas Jawad Nitish Kandwal Pranav Mehta (wk) Derrick Ruston Vignesh Shenoy Yash Thakkar Imran Younus Athar Khan (c) Abdul Aziz Asif Mohammad Fahad Dalvi Faisal Noor Khalid Azeem Hassan Ahmed Mohammad Emran Mosin Shabbir Omar Arshad Omar Sharif Qamar Sadiq Saifur Rehman Sarmad Adil Walimuni Migara Wasim Akram Yaseen Badsha Zaheeruddin Ibrahim (wk) Zeeshan Raza (c) Shafees Altaf Aziz-ul-Ariffin Senthil Dayalan (wk) Iftekhar Haider Christopher Janik Ronald Joseph Rizwan Madakia Glenn Meyer James Muruthi Peter Muruthi Shaun Sabapathy Utkarah Sharma Maxim Yuen Saurabh Dhanukha (c) Danushka Abeyasekara Saad Akbar Neeraj Annachhatra Kwan Chand (wk) Chirag Chugani Akshay Desai Theerapnat Kanijou Swapnil Kaushik Arujun Kumar Adrash Mukerjee Sunil Nalinvilawan Sahan Ranamukharaachchi Nishadh Rego Deepak Saraff Darshil Shah Ryan Chadha (c) Abdul Rehman Ali Abdulla Asim Zubair Farhan Siddiqui Leon Carlo Owais Hameed Pranov Arora Qasim Zubair Ramveer Rai Riaz Khaliq Rizwan Azhar Shoaib Sarwar Umar Shah

Group stages

Source: CricketArchive

Group A Team 4 3 0 0 1 3 21 +4.608 4 1 1 1 1 1 12 +1.204 4 1 1 1 1 1 12 –0.204 4 1 1 1 1 0 11 –1.030 4 0 3 1 0 0 3 –5.209

Group B Team 4 3 0 0 1 2 20 +2.337 4 2 1 0 1 2 15 +1.867 4 1 2 0 0 2 12 +1.670 4 1 2 0 1 1 9 –2.064 4 0 3 0 1 0 3 –3.935

Finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

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

Player Team Runs Inns Avg Highest 100s 50s Adnan Ilyas 239 4 119.50 168* 1 0 Kanishka Chaugai 196 5 49.00 125 1 0 Satgunasingam Vickneswaran 183 3 61.00 125 1 0 Yashwant Subedi 181 5 36.20 63 0 1 Saim Shibli 155 3 51.66 82 0 1 Source: CricketArchive

Most wickets

The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by bowling average. Player Team Overs Wkts Ave SR Econ BBI Manjeet Shrestha 24.0 10 6.50 14.40 2.70 4/17 Adnan Ilyas 28.0 10 9.70 16.80 3.46 6/16 Waqas Jamil 27.3 10 10.90 16.50 3.96 4/23 Imran Younus 23.0 8 9.37 17.25 3.26 3/17 Lakpar Lama 28.5 7 5.85 24.71 1.42 3/5

Source: CricketArchive

Final standing RankTeamStatus 1 Qualified for 2004 Under-19 World Cup 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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