48 matches will be played at seven UAE venues from 14 February to 1 March 2014.

The ICC has announced the umpire and match referee appointments for the warm-up and first round matches.

India and Pakistan are are favourites to qualify ahead of Papua New Guinea and Scotland.

Afghanistan can cause an upset in the group containing Australia, Bangladesh and Namibia.

South Africa, seeking their first major ICC title, are grouped with Canada, West Indies and Zimbabwe.

Hosts UAE are the outsiders in their group behind England, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

Between them, Australia, India and Pakistan have won eight of the nine Under 19 World Cup tournaments.

India and Australia suffer losses while England defeat Scotland.

Pakistan and West Indies have impressive victories, Bangladesh surprises England and UAE upsets Zimbabwe.

Scotland lose their second warm-up game narrowly by three wickets against Afghanistan.

Canada lose to Zimbabwe by 6 wickets in opening match.

England record a comprehensive 213 run win over the hosts.

Scotland record six wicket win against PNG in their opening U19 World Cup encounter.

Bangladesh cruise to a ten wicket win over Afghanistan.

All round performance from Bredell Wessells not enough as Namibia defeated by Australia.

Canada lose to South Africa by 45 runs in Abu Dhabi.

The UAE lose again, this time to New Zealand by 112 runs.

Sri Lanka and South Africa sealed their places in the quarter-finals when they recorded victories of contrasting styles.

Scotland's Under 19's gave India a mighty scare before eventually going down by five wickets in their Group clash in Dubai.

Afghanistan gain a famous victory over Australia.

Canada end the group stage without a win after losing to the West Indies.

The hosts lose again at the Under-19 World Cup.

England and the West Indies advanced to the quarter-finals when they comfortably won their decisive Group C and D matches, respectively.

Pakistan beat Scotland by146 runs in Dubai to progress to the quarter finals, while Scotland will now contest the ninth place play-off matches.

Australia and Afghanistan progress to the quarter finals from Group B on the final day of the first round matches.

England defeat defending champions India by three wickets to set up a semi final against Pakistan

India captain Vijay Zol suspended for one match and Gani reprimanded after being found guilty of breaching the ICC Code of Conduct against England.

Scotland have lost their play-off match heavily against UAE.

A century by West Indies' wicketkeeper-batsman Nicolas Pooran was in vain as Australia reached its third successive semi-final with a five-wicket victory.

Scotland defeated Papua New Guinea by 77 runs to set up a match with Namibia for thirteenth place.

Zafar Gohar and Amad Butt put on 63 undefeated runs as Pakistan defeated England by three wickets in a nerve-racking thriller to reach the final.

Bangladesh and New Zealand reached the Plate Championship final when they comfortably won their play-off matches.

Scotland's young braves fought back courageously defending a relatively modest 178 to defeat Namibia by just five runs in a thrilling contest in Abu Dhabi to claim 13th place in the Under 19 World Cup.

Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada produced the best bowling performance of the tournament to date as South Africa beat three-time former champion Australia by 80 runs to book their place in the final against Pakistan.

Bangladesh defeated New Zealand by 77 runs to win its fourth Plate Championship title at the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup

South Africa won its maiden ICC U19 Cricket World Cup title when it defeated two-time former champion Pakistan by six wickets.