India Under-19 team on Sunday defeated
Australia U-19 team by 6 wickets to win final of International Cricket Council
Under-19 World Cup.
Earlier, India won the toss and invited Australia
to bat. Australia’s top order collapsed skipper middle order batsman William
Bosisto played 87 runs not out inning to take the Aussies to a total 225
runs.
India’s Sandeep Sharma took 4 wickets for 54
runs.
In reply, India’s skipper and opening batsman
Unmukt Chand played a great captain inning 111 runs not out to take his
team to a victory stand and win the world title for third time. Middle
order wicketkeeper batsman Smit Patel who also remained not out made 62 runs.
India accomplished the target in 48th over.
Australia’s Gurinder Sandhu took 1 wicket for 43
runs.
Man of the Match: Unmukt Chand, India captain
Man of the Tournament: William Bosisto, Australia
captain
India: Prashant Chopra, Unmukt Chand (c), Baba Aparajith,
Hanuma Vihari, Vijay Zol, Akshdeep Deependra Nath, Smit Kamleshbhai Patel (wk),
Kamal Passi, Harmeet Singh, Ravikant Singh, Sandeep Sharma.
Australia: Cameron Timothy Bancroft, James John Peirson
(wk), Meyrick John Buchanan, Kurtis Robert Patterson, William Giles Bosisto
(c), Travis Michael Head, Ashton James Turner, Alexander James Gregory, Mark
Thomas Steketee, Joel Samuel Paris, Gurinder Singh Sandhu
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