Most wickets taken by a player in an U19s World Cup match

Australia's Lloyd Pope took eight wickets for 35 runs against England in the quarter-finals of the ICC Under-19s World Cup in Queenstown, New Zealand, on 23 January 2018. The spinner bundled out England for 96 runs, chasing just 127, to become the first-ever bowler to take eight wickets in the competition.

England were chasing Australia's well-below-par 127 all out and a place in the semi-finals before Pope tore into their batting line-up. England had advanced to 47 without loss before two wickets in two balls changed the course of the match.

Four days earlier, on 19 January 2018, Australia's Jason Ralston took seven wickets for 15 runs in a group match against Papua New Guinea in Lincoln, New Zealand. Briefly, this performance put Ralston at the top of the list of the best bowling figures at the Under-19s World Cup, ahead of two other players who took seven wickets.

Irfan Pathan, who went on to play 120 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) for India in 2004-12, was the only bowler in the history of youth ODIs to take as many as eight wickets in a match before Pope's heroics. On 4 November 2003, he took nine wickets for 16 runs against Bangladesh in an Asia Under-19 Tournament match in Lahore, Pakistan.