Kwena Maphaka named U19 Cricket World Cup Player of the Tournament

South Africa pace sensation wins coveted award at 2024 event

South Africa pace sensation Kwena Maphaka has been named the Player of the Tournament at the ICC U19 Men's Cricket World Cup 2024.

Maphaka was crowned the Player of the Tournament, seeing off Ubaid Shah, Saumy Pandey, Musheer Khan, Jewel Andrew, Hugh Weibgen, Uday Saharan and teammate Steve Stolk.

The record-breaking South Africa pacer has been one of the standout quicks at the tournament, with his 21 scalps just one short of the tournament record set by Bangladesh's Enamul Haque Jr 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.

Best of Kwena Maphaka | U19 CWC 2024

Maphaka joins an elite list of players who have been Player of the Tournament at the men's 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.

Magnificent Maphaka | SA v SL | ICC U19 Men’s CWC 2022

Player of the Tournament at the U19 World Cup

Year 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