ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup Bangladesh 2004
 

ICC releases
 
  14 February 2004

Dhaka, 12 February 2004 Player of Tournament selection process announced  

The International Cricket Council today announced the selection process for the Player of the Tournament prize at the ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup Bangladesh 2004.  

  Players will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Zimbabwe¹s Tatenda Taibu who claimed the award in New Zealand two years ago and is now vice captain of his nation¹s full international team.   

After every match in Bangladesh the Match Referee will allocate points to the best-performing players as follows:   

  • Man of the Match                     3 points
  • 2nd best player                          2 points
  • 3rd best player                           1 point
   

The winner of the Player of the Tournament Award will be the player who accumulates the most points during the course of the tournament. The winner may not necessarily have won a single Man of the Match award but may have been a consistently good performer who picked up points across a number of matches.    

If there is a tie for the Player of the Tournament Award the count-back system will be as follows:  

  •   The player who won the most Man of the Match Awards throughout the tournament; then
  • The player who received the most 2nd places in the Man of the Match Awards
  The count-back scenario will continue until a clear winner is declared.    

The Player of the Tournament at the ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup will be awarded a six and a half inch replica of the ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup 2004 trophy worth over $US 3500.  

  Every Man of the Match will receive a handcrafted ICC clock in the design and approximate size of a cricket ball which is mounted on a small stand and inscribed with the ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup 2004 logo  

Dhaka, 14 February 2004   

Anti-corruption briefing for all U/19 players   

All players taking part in the ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup 2004 have undertaken the ICC¹s education programmes to ensure that they are aware of the risk of corruption in the sport and the impact that it can have on them, their teams and the game the ICC said today.  

  The ICC¹s Anti Corruption and Security Unit is in Bangladesh as part of the ICC¹s on-going fight against corruption and one of the Unit¹s tournament responsibilities is to ensure that all teams and players are made aware of the dangers of corruption.   

All sixteen teams completed their mandatory education session with the ACSU on the dangers posed by corruption prior to departing for their regional bases earlier this week.   

The sessions are similar to the mandatory briefings that the ACSU provides to all full international cricketers and they form part of the ICC¹s global programme dedicated to protecting international cricket from corruption.    

ICC Chief Executive Malcolm Speed stressed the importance of an effective anti-corruption education programme and the opportunity that the tournament provided to work with the next generation of international cricketers.   

"The ICC is committed to ensuring that the game is never again tainted by corruption," said Mr Speed.   

"Through the Anti Corruption and Security Unit, international cricket has in place a professional security and investigative team with the resources to deal with this threat.   

"The ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup is an ideal opportunity to work with the next generation of international cricketers to ensure that they are fully aware of the dangers and pitfalls that they may confront as they graduate to senior international cricket."