Under 19 World cup:India beat Australia by 100 Runs

The Men in Blue are off to a great start in their ICC Under-19 World Cup 2018 campaign, as the Indian team posted a huge total of 328 runs against Australia at Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.

Pritvi Shaw winning the toss did not hesitate to bat first on a seeming flat track.

The openers, Shaw and Manjot Kalra led India's surge from the front. Both the batsmen started carefully playing out first six over’s for just 27 runs. It was a six from Shaw who opened the floodgates for India.

After that, both the players changed their strike and took on the Aussie bowling attack as India crossed the 50-run mark in the 10th over.

Both Kalra and Shaw missed out on individual centuries. Shaw was dismissed on 94 when he edged the ball to the keeper, while Kalra was caught at mid-wicket and was dismissed at 86.

They had an opening stand of 180 and with that, they soon overtook Robin Uthappa and Shikhar Dhawan's opening wicket record of 174 runs in U-19 World Cup for India.

In the end, Shubman Gill played a fiery innings of 63 runs to help India cross the 300-run mark, while Abhishek Sharma 8-ball 23, provided the late flourish.

He fell to Edwards for an 8-ball 23. This was also the highest-ever total against Australia in an U19 World Cup; surpassing previous best by Ireland.

India closed their innings on 328 for 7.

For Australia, the pick of the bowlers was Jack Edwards who took four wickets for 65 runs.

Then Australia make 228runs for 42.5 over’s and they loss all wickets. India won U19 first match by 100runs.Its shows quality of the Indian players.

Player of the match: Prithvi Shaw: I think it was really good. A challenge as well. We did well in all departments. Overall a good team performance. It was great experience playing first-class cricket and then coming to U-19. He (Manjot Kalra) played really well and executed all the plans that we came up with. They (the pacers) did a great job for the team. Ishan also looked good, but unfortunately he had to go back. Mavi and Nagarkoti were brilliant. We are getting used to conditions. We are only going to get better. They (the spinners) did a decent job. To be in the process is the main thing and our coach Rahul Sir tells us to be positive and keeps us focused. It is great playing under Rahul Sir. He never speaks negative even in practice.  

Teams (from)

India: Prithvi Shaw (C), Shubman Gill, Aryan Juyal, Abhishek Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Harvik Desai, Manjot Kalra, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Pankaj Yadav, Riyan Parag, Ishan Porel, Himanshu Rana, Anukul Roy, Shivam Mavi, Shiva Singh.

Australia: Jason Sangha (C), Will Sutherland, Xavier Bartlett, Max Bryant, Jack Edwards, Zak Evans, Jarrod Freeman, Ryan Hadley, Baxter Holt, Nathan McSweeney, Jonathan Merlo, Lloyd Pope, Jason Ralston, Param Uppal, Austin Waugh. (ANI)