U19 Asia Cup: India beat Sri Lanka in semi-final; to face Pakistan in title clash

NEW DELHI: India Under-19 booked a spot successful the Asia Cup last aft beating Sri Lanka U19 by 8 wickets successful a rain-shortened semi-final connected Friday. Vice-captain Vihaan Malhotra and Aaron George shared an unbroken concern to implicit the pursuit aft India’s bowlers restricted Sri Lanka to 138 for 8 successful a 20-overs-a-side contest.After rainfall reduced the match, India’s bowling portion continued its dependable tally successful the tournament, reducing Sri Lanka to 28 for 3 wrong the archetypal six overs. Sri Lanka skipper Vimath Dinsara scored 32, portion Chamika Heenatigala added 42 arsenic the brace enactment connected 45 runs to dependable the innings.

Sethmika Seneviratne past made 30 disconnected 22 balls to instrumentality Sri Lanka past 135. For India, Kanishk Chauhan and Henil Patel picked up 2 wickets each.India’s pursuit began poorly, with Ayush Mhatre dismissed for 7 and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi for 9, some falling to pacer Rasith Nimsara. Mhatre was retired to a abbreviated delivery, portion Suryavanshi got a starring borderline portion trying to adjacent the look of the bat.Malhotra past took charge, scoring 61 not retired disconnected 45 balls, including 2 sixes and respective boundaries. George, who finished connected 58 not retired disconnected 49 balls, played the supporting relation arsenic the brace added 114 runs for the 3rd wicket.

India reached the people successful 18 overs to seal their eighth quality successful the U19 Asia Cup final.In the different semi-final, Pakistan bushed Bangladesh by 8 wickets. India and Pakistan volition conscionable successful the last for the archetypal clip successful 11 years. The past clip India U19 defeated Pakistan successful an Asia Cup last was successful 2014, erstwhile the squad included players specified arsenic Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Sanju Samson and Kuldeep Yadav.