Musheer Khan, Naman Tiwari and Saumy Pandey had been the celebs of India’s 201-run victory over Eire within the ICC Beneath-19 Males’s Cricket World Cup 2024 in Bloemfontein on Thursday. This win meant that India rose to the highest of the Group A desk with another match to go within the group fixtures.
Whereas Musheer struck a elegant 118 off 106 balls, Tiwari (4/53) and Pandey (3/21) picked up seven wickets between themselves as they bowled out Eire for 100 within the chase of 302.
Put in to bat on the Mangaung Oval, India made the a lot of the good batting situations in opposition to Eire.
John McNally dismissed the Indian openers Adarsh Singh and Arshin Kulkarni after the 2 obtained off to begins, however India captain Uday Saharan and Musheer mixed in what turned out to be a game-changing partnership.
The duo began off slowly, scoring the primary boundary after greater than 10 overs into the partnership, however runs got here thick and quick from there as the 2 showcased their vary of strokes.
Musheer introduced up his fifty within the thirty fourth over and Saharan adopted go well with quickly after, making it 4 fifties in 4 outings (together with two within the warm-up video games) on the match. Each batters moved throughout to the off-side to take advantage of the fine-leg area with scoop photographs.
Saharan could not convert his half-century to a much bigger knock as he fell trying a kind of scoop photographs that had introduced him success. The dearth of tempo and timing within the shot noticed Saharan gap out for 75.
Musheer went on to finish his hundred off as many balls and raced to 118 off 106 balls earlier than trying a dangerous double that noticed him end in need of the crease because the keeper took off the bails.
Sachin Dhas hit two fours and a six within the ultimate over earlier than Oliver Riley wrapped up the innings with two wickets in two balls. India had sufficient by then, although, ending on 301/7.
The Eire openers obtained off to a cautious begin in opposition to India’s new-ball bowlers Tiwari and Dhanush Gowda, so Saharan turned to Pandey’s spin for the breakthrough.
The left-arm spinner struck instantly, bowling Jordan Neill with a peach that turned previous the skin edge to crash into the stumps.
With the opening created, Tiwari began banging the ball into the wicket to generate additional bounce. The ploy labored as Ryan Hunter holed out trying a pull stroke off a brief ball. Captain Philippe le Roux nicked one behind the identical over as Eire slipped additional.
One other brief ball subsequent over introduced Tiwari his third as Scott MacBeth perished. Aravelly Avanish produced a pointy stumping subsequent over off Pandey as Eire had been diminished to 41/5.
Wickets continued to tumble as Eire misplaced 5 wickets, one in every over, between overs 11 and 15. Murugan Abhishek, like within the final sport, took a shocking catch at level to dismiss McNally. With Tiwari sending again the in-form Kian Hilton, India had asserted full dominance.
Daniel Forkin and Riley hung round to delay India’s win, including a couple of runs in a gradual partnership. Abhishek broke the stand by trapping Riley in entrance by coming across the wicket. Saharan took the ultimate wicket as India accomplished a 201-run victory.
India will tackle the US subsequent on January 28, whereas Eire full their group schedule with one win in three video games. If the US lose their matches in opposition to Bangladesh and India, Eire will undergo to the Tremendous Six stage.
India 301/7 (50 overs) v Eire 100 (29.4 overs)
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