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Pujara man of the Under-19 World Cup
February 21, 2006

India's Cheteshwar Pujara has been confirmed as the man of the tournament at the ICC [Images] Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka [Images].

The right-handed opening batsman, who also finished as the leading run-scorer in the 16-team event with 349 runs, polled nine votes during the course of the tournament to finish two points clear of the Bangladesh duo of captain Mushfiqur Rahim and all-rounder Mehrab Hossain.

Behind them were seven players on six points, including Anwer Ali Khan of Pakistan, who moved into that group after his man of the match performance in the Super League final against India on Sunday, when he took 5-35 to spearhead his side's 38-run win.

The top ten players in the list are as follows (with team in brackets):

NameMOM points
Cheteshwar Pujara (India)9
Mushfiqur Rahim (Bangladesh)7
Mehrab Hossain (Bangladesh)7
Eoin Morgan (Ireland)6
Moises Henriques (Australia)6
Gaurav Dhiman (India)6
Dean Elgar (South Africa)6
Kanishka Chaugai (Nepal)6
Riaz Kail (Pakistan)6
Anwer Ali Khan (Pakistan)6

The reserve umpire at each match awarded points on a 3-2-1 basis, with his choice as the man of the match getting three points, his second choice getting two points and his third pick receiving one point.

Those points were then added up to produce the man of the tournament.

All matches, including the Super League final, were included in the voting process and Pujara received a crystal trophy after that match for his feat of topping the list.

Ahead of that match only India's Gaurav Dhiman and Riaz Kail of Pakistan were in a position to catch Pujara but with both players failing in the final it left Pujara clear of the field despite his second ball duck.

Pujara finished with a batting average of 116.33 and his run-tally included an unbeaten 129 against the West Indies [Images] in the Super League quarter-final, one of only five individual hundreds by batsmen in the 44 matches played.

Immediately behind Pujara in the batting list was a player from an Associate country, Ireland captain Eoin Morgan.  He scored 338 runs, including 124 against New Zealand [Images] in the quarter-final of the Plate Championship.

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The player with the top strike-rate among the leading batsmen was Dhiman, whose 222 runs were scored at 125.42 runs per hundred balls.

Henriques finished as the tournament's leading wicket-taker with 16 wickets in five matches but he was run close for that honour by Anwer Ali Khan, whose five-wicket haul in the Super League final took him to 15 victims, albeit in one more match than Henriques.

Anwer Ali Khan and Jamshaid Ahmed formed the most potent new-ball partnership in the tournament as they shared 29 wickets between them, one reason why Pakistan coach Mansoor Rana singled them out as the major factor behind his side's retention of the trophy.

Leading run-scorers (with team in brackets)
NameRunsAvgeHS50100
Cheteshwar Pujara (India)349116.33129*21
Eoin Morgan (Ireland)33867.6012421
Todd Astle (New Zealand)25242.00673-
Dean Elgar (South Africa)24661.50863-
Dilhan Cooray (Sri Lanka)23779.0064*3-
Kanishka Chaugai (Nepal)23439.00782-
Andrew De Boorder (New Zealand)23346.60100*11
Gaurav Dhiman (India)22244.40902-
Pieter Daneel (South Africa)21142.20902-
Tom Cooper (Australia)21152.7510411

Leading wicket-takers
NameWicketsAvgeBest
Moises Henriques (Australia)1610.564-22
Anwer Ali Khan (Pakistan)1512.675-34
Hamish Bennett (New Zealand)1410.714-16
Jamshaid Ahmed (Pakistan)1411.794-29
Mehrab Hossain (Bangladesh)138.384-29
Piyush Chawla [Images] (India)1312.154-8
Niall McDarby (Ireland)1215.926-50
Basant Regmi (Nepal)1216.253-31
Vijaykumar Yomahesh (India)1213.254-25
Patrick Ochan (Uganda)1121.453-70

Most Dismissals
NameCtStTotal
William Perkins (West Indies)12618
Safaraz Ahmed (Pakistan)13215
Pinal Shah (India)9615
Mahesh Chhetri (Nepal)3912
Fintan McAllister (Ireland)6511

Individual hundreds (5):
133William Perkins (West Indies v United States of America)
129*Cheteshwar Pujara (India v West Indies)
124Eoin Morgan (Ireland v New Zealand)
104Tom Cooper (Australia v South Africa)
100Andrew De Boorder (New Zealand v United States of America)

Best partnerships:
160Eoin Morgan & Andrew Poynter, fourth wicket (Ireland v New Zealand)
 Riaz Kail & Ali Asad, sixth wicket (Pakistan v Australia)

Best bowling:
6-50Niall McDarby (Ireland v England [Images])

Highest totals:
337-8South Africa v United States of America
316-9Australia v South Africa
305-7New Zealand v Ireland
304-9Ireland v New Zealand
302-7West Indies v United States of America

Lowest totals:
58England v India
71India v Pakistan
74Uganda v Pakistan
77New Zealand v Pakistan
84Uganda v Bangladesh


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