SK Flashback: India's history at the U19 World Cup

2008 ICC Under-19 World Cup

Virat's boys

This was the seventh edition of the tournament. Malaysia hosted the tournament for the very first time at three venues: Kuala Lumpur, Johor and Penang. India was captained by Virat Kohli and coached by Dav Whatmore.

India defeated South Africa by 12 runs (D/L method) in the rain-hit finals at Kuala Lumpur. The Indian squad included players like Ravindra Jadeja, Manish Pandey, Saurabh Tiwary, Iqbal Abdullah who made it big in the future.

Tanmay Srivastava of India was the highest run-getter with 262 runs. Wayne Parnell of South Africa emerged as the highest wicket taker with 18 wickets. The Kiwi, Tim Southee was the Player of the series. This was India’s Second title.