India dominated the play throughout the day to win their first game of the ICC U19 World Cup against Austral🐼ia on Sunday.
While defending a total o🅷f 328/7, India bowled out Australia for 228 to win their first game of the tournament by 100 runs. The boys in blue picked up regular wickets in the Aussies chase and did not let them go past the total in the second inn♚ings.
Batting first af༺ter winning the toss, the Indian openers Prithvi Shaw and Manjot Kalra set the match up beautifully for their side. Shaw top-scored for Ind꧑ia. He made 94 runs off 100 deliveries. The 180-run stand at a run-rate of over 6 laid the platform for India to score big. Players in the middle-order and lower-order played some brilliant cameos to take the total past 300.
Chasing such a huge total down, Australia didn’t seem to be comfortable at any stage of the game. Their top 4 players have done decently well but were slow. As the required run-rate was getting higher, the Aussies kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
Iꦆndian bowlers were highly disciplined and bowled the right lines and lengths. Shivam Mavi and Kamlesh Nagarkoti picked three wickets each dismantling the Australian batting order. The remaining two wickets were picked by Abhishek Sharma and Anukul Sudhakar Roy.
Cricket fraternity and fans on Twitter also lauded young Team India’s performance.
The batting looked solid, the bowling was on target with some serious pace and the boys were at thei🍸r best in the field. Congratulations on this great win. in the making for sure.
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
Great all- round performance by the young lads. Really a delight to watch the passion. An emphatic win to start the c𓄧ampai🎐gn. Keep it up boys
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
Very impressed with this Indian U/19 team, batting s꧋kܫill, dynamic in the field & bowlers with pace!!
— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket)
This was serious pace from our boys. Solid beginning beating the ✅Aussies by 100 runs. May the hunger continue and we carry the momentum.
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
A perf𓆏ect asset is ꧃on the way. Prithvi Shaw will definitely make it to the senior national team in no time.
— Kulamani Muduli (@thisissanu)
Gre🐬at start for India U19꧒. Proper thrashing that. Well done boys 👍🏼
— Saurabh Malhotra (@MalhotraSaurabh)
What a lovely sunday morning. Watching these amꦛazing kids play. Takes me back to my India u19 days. Absolute bliss it was.
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani)
Rahul Dravid is the mother every c🍎ricketಞing kid deserves.
— ready, steady, no (@TheSortedChaos)
Looks like India has got its own Malcolm Marshal now. Kamlesh Nagarko🃏ti, all of 18 years 17 days, just bowled one at 149 kmph. U-19 World Cup is a revelation
— Sꦗanjay 🦩Dixit ಸಂಜಯ್ ದೀಕ್ಷಿತ್ संजय दीक्षित (@Sanjay_Dixit)
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Remember the nam🍌e a young sensational speedster to follow d legacy of kapil dev srinath zhaheer Khan with extra pace exciting to watch A new fast bowling era of Indian cricket born
— KDM (@KDmgold)
India U19 finish with 327/7 to become the first side to make a 300+ total against Australi🌠a in a match!
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman)
Prithvi Shaw looks so special. Brilliant 94 and a really solid start for India. Cheering for the bo🅺ys, for many of whom this is a significant event in their endeavour to be India Cricketers.
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Excellent batting from Prithvi and Manjot. Great to see the Indians dominati💫ng this contest against Aus. enjoy.
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar)
