Dates | 19–25 August 2001 |
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Administrator(s) | ICC East Asia-Pacific |
Cricket format | 50-over |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin, then final |
Host(s) | ![]() |
Champions | ![]() |
Participants | 3 |
Matches played | 7 |
Most runs | ![]() |
Most wickets | ![]() |
The 2001 EAP Under-19 Cricket Trophy was a cricket tournament held in Fiji from 19–25 August 2001, during the 2001 international season. All matches were held in Nadi.
Papua New Guinea won the tournament by defeating Hong Kong in the final, thus qualifying for the 2002 Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. Two PNG players, Frank Joseph and Greg Baeau, led the tournament in runs and wickets, respectively. The only century at the tournament was scored by a Fijian, Colin Rika.
The tournament, featuring only three teams, was organised by ICC East Asia-Pacific (EAP), and was the inaugural edition of the EAP Under-19 Trophy. Previously, EAP teams had had to qualify via the Youth Asia Cup, an Asian Cricket Council (ACC) tournament. For the next two World Cups, in 2004 and 2006, the EAP organised joint qualification tournaments with the African Cricket Association, held in 2003 and 2005. Separate qualifying tournaments have been held since then.
Hong Kong, an Asian Cricket Council (ACC) member, participated in the tournament for the first and only time. [1]
Team | Qualification |
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![]() | Host (automatically qualified) |
![]() | Automatically qualified |
![]() | Automatically qualified |
Qualified for the final |
Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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![]() | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +4.823 |
![]() | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.772 |
![]() | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –4.264 |
Full fixtures: Cricket Archive
25 August Scorecard |
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The top five run scorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.
Player | Team | Runs | Inns | Avg | Highest | 100s | 50s |
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Frank Joseph | ![]() | 206 | 5 | 51.50 | 77 | 0 | 2 |
Mahuru Dai | ![]() | 181 | 5 | 60.33 | 76* | 0 | 2 |
Colin Rika | ![]() | 163 | 2 | 81.50 | 129 | 1 | 0 |
Dyutish Chaudhuri | ![]() | 162 | 5 | 32.40 | 63 | 0 | 2 |
Jignesh Tailor | ![]() | 140 | 4 | 46.66 | 63* | 0 | 1 |
Source: CricketArchive
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 |
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Greg Baeau | ![]() | 31.5 | 13 | 7.61 | 14.69 | 3.10 | 5/37 |
Gima Keimolo | ![]() | 47.3 | 12 | 10.33 | 23.75 | 2.61 | 5/22 |
Peter Arua | ![]() | 42.5 | 9 | 15.77 | 28.55 | 3.31 | 4/30 |
Kieran Kumaria | ![]() | 8.4 | 5 | 9.40 | 10.40 | 5.42 | 5/20 |
Kohu Dai | ![]() | 32.0 | 5 | 19.60 | 38.40 | 3.06 | 3/41 |
Source: CricketArchive
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