India's second consecutive win.
Sports Desk, New Delhi. On Sunday, in the 5th match of ACC Men's Under-19 Asia Cup 2025, Indian Under-19 team defeated Pakistan Under-19 team by 90 runs. In this match played at the ICC Academy Ground in Dubai, the Indian team, after losing the toss and opting to bat first, scored 240 runs in 46.1 overs. Due to rain this match was played in 49-49 overs. In reply, Pakistan team was reduced to 150 runs in 41.2 overs. This is India's second consecutive victory. Earlier, Team India had started the tournament with a win by defeating UAE.
Vaibhav's bat did not work. India came to bat first after losing the toss. The start was bad and the hero of the last match, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, was caught and bowled on the score of 5. After this, captain Ayush Mhatre took over the innings and along with Aaron George added 49 runs for the second wicket. Ayush's innings ended in the 10th over. He scored 38 runs in 25 balls. Vihaan Malhotra, who scored 69 runs in the last match against UAE, could score only 12 runs. Whereas Vedant Trivedi played a slow inning of 7 runs in 22 balls.
Aaron scored a half-century, wicketkeeper Abhigyan Kundu handled the innings by scoring 22 runs. Meanwhile, Aaron, who was on his way to a century, was caught out. He faced 88 balls and scored 85 runs. In the lower order, Khilan Patel scored 6 runs, Kanishk Chauhan scored 46 runs, Henil Patel scored 12 runs and Deepesh Devendran scored 1 run. For Pakistan, Mohammad Sayyam and Abdul Subhan took 3 wickets each. Niqab Shafiq got 2 successes. Ali Raza and Ahmed Hussain took 1 wicket each.
Deepesh made a stormy start to chase 241 runs. Pakistan's top order was blown away by a storm named Deepesh Devendran. Deepesh gave 3 shocks to Pakistan one after the other. Deepesh hunted Sameer Minhas on the first ball of the 9th over. Sameer faced 20 balls and scored 9 runs. In the last match, Sameer had played an unbeaten inning of 177 runs. In such a situation, his wicket was very important for India.
Vaibhav took the wicket, Deepesh sent Ali Hasan Baloch (0) to the pavilion in the 11th over and Ahmed Hussain (4) to the pavilion in the 13th over. Pakistan lost 2 wickets at the score of 30. After Ahmed Hussain, opening batsman Usman Khan was also caught out. He played a slow innings of 16 runs in 42 balls. Captain Farhan Yusuf (23) was sent to the pavilion by Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Wicketkeeper Hamza Zahoor (4) also could not do anything special. Abdul Subhan scored 6 runs.