A century for Arshin Kulkarni and one other high-quality knock from Musheer Khan helped India placed on a tall whole in opposition to USA earlier than Naman Tiwari led their bowling efficiency with a four-wicket haul in a 201-run win.
India continued their successful streak on the U19 Males’s Cricket World Cup on the again of one other spectacular batting show in Bloemfontein.
Opener Kulkarni, who had missed out within the first couple of matches, made an excellent hundred after USA received the toss and put India in to bat.
USA struck with the wicket of Adarsh Singh quickly after the Powerplay, however struggled to interrupt the stand between Kulkarni and Musheer Khan, the centurion from the earlier recreation.
Musheer and Kulkarni went at a fast price and India piled on a century-stand to place USA underneath stress. The duo discovered boundaries with ease within the 155-run partnership that was solely damaged within the thirty sixth over when Rishi Ramesh dismissed Musheer for 73.
Kulkarni raced to his hundred within the forty first over, taking 110 balls to succeed in the milestone. In the meantime, on the different finish, Uday Saharan stepped up the scoring price, smashing 35 off 27 balls earlier than slicing a slower ball from Arya Garg to level.
Kulkarni holed out within the subsequent over, however with a couple of massive hits within the subsequent few overs, India completed with a powerful whole of 326/5 in 50 overs.
The bowlers responded to India’s batting effort with two fast wickets. Prannav Chettipalayam was bowled for 2 by Raj Limbani within the first over and Naman Tiwari cleaned up Bhavya Mehta within the subsequent, to cut back USA to 2 for two.
Tiwari went on to dismiss skipper Ramesh for eight and USA had been diminished to 12/3 with an enormous goal in entrance of them. Utkarsha Srivastava and Amogh Arepally confirmed some combat, however India saved selecting up wickets.
Tiwari had Srivastava and Manav Nayak dismissed in back-to-back overs to finish with 4 wickets whereas Saumy Pandey saved issues extremely tight from his finish. The left-arm spinner grabbed a wicket late within the recreation, however the spotlight of his spell was that he conceded simply 13 runs in 10 overs.
USA completed on 125 and India registered successive wins with a margin of over 200 runs to undergo to the Tremendous Six on a excessive.
India will now play New Zealand and Nepal within the Tremendous Six stage at this very venue, the Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein, on January 30 and February 2 respectively.
Indian skipper Uday Saharan mentioned he was happy to see every of India’s high 4 batters get massive runs within the event earlier than the Tremendous Six stage.
He mentioned: “Everybody’s enjoying good cricket in the intervening time. We’re in good type and getting used to the situations right here (in Bloemfontein). Hopefully, we proceed performing properly right here (the place India play their two Tremendous Six video games).”
India 326/5 (50 overs) v USA 125/8 (50 overs)
With inputs from ICC Enterprise Company FZ LLC 2020 by way of On-line Media Zone.
