• SA U19’s Maphaka simply the best

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    South Africa pace sensation Kwena Maphaka has been named the Player of the Tournament at the 2024 U19 World Cup.

    Maphaka saw off Ubaid Shah, Saumy Pandey, Musheer Khan, Jewel Andrew, Hugh Weibgen, Uday Saharan and teammate Steve Stolk.

    The record-breaking South African was one of the standout quicks at the tournament, with his 21 wickets just one short of the tournament record set by Bangladesh’s Enamul Haque Jnr in 2014.

    Maphaka did claim a record of his own with the 17-year-old becoming the first player to collect a trio of five-wicket hauls at a single edition of the tournament.

    Maphaka joins an elite list of players who have been Player of the Tournament at the event in the past.

    At the last edition too, the award was won by a South African — Dewald Brevis, for a record-breaking tally of runs in the tournament.

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    U19 World Cup Player of the Tournament:

    1988: Not awarded
    1998: Not awarded
    2000: Yuvraj Singh
    2002: Tatenda Taibu
    2004: Shikhar Dhawan
    2006: Cheteshwar Pujara
    2008: Tim Southee
    2010: Dominic Hendricks
    2012: Will Bosisto
    2014: Aiden Markram
    2016: Mehedi Hasan
    2018: Shubman Gill
    2020 Yashasvi Jaiswal
    2022: Dewald Brevis
    2024: Kwena Maphaka

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    Simon Borchardt