Chasing a difficult 212 for victory on a turning floor, the India U-19 aspect survived a scare as Nikhil Kumar (55 n.o., 71b, 3×4, 4×6) and Nitya Pandya (51, 86b, 3×4) performed composed knocks and guided the house aspect to a two-wicket victory towards Australia U-19 on day three of the primary Youth take a look at collection on the M.A.Chidambaram stadium right here on Wednesday.
India suffered an early setback when off-spinner Thomas Brown dismissed Vaibhav Suryavanshi and pacer Addison Sheriff eliminated Vihaan Malhotra with India struggling at 25 for 2.
Nitya and Ok.P. Karthikeya (35, 52b, 5×4) added 71 runs for the third wicket earlier than Karthikeya was trapped in entrance to Australia’s leg-spinner Vishwa Ramkumar (24.1-3-75-3).
96 for 3 shortly grew to become 113 for 5 as Vishwa dismissed the well-set Nitya and pacer Aidan O’ Connor (12-4-27-4) despatched again skipper Soham Patwardhan caught behind.
Abhigyan Kundu and Nikhil fought again with a 49-run sixth-wicket stand with attacking photographs across the floor.
Aidan then dismissed Abhigyan and Vishwa disturbed Enaan’s timber earlier than Nikhil and N. Samarth’s 43-run eighth-wicket affiliation helped India cross the road.
Earlier, Soham (12.4-1-27-3) took the primary wicket of the morning by dismissing Christian Howe, who was caught at mid-off.
Leg-spinner Enaan dismissed Simon Budge, who was trying to play an aerial shot over mid-off however discovered Karthikeya.
Addison and Aidan added 33 runs for the seventh wicket earlier than the previous was caught at foolish level off Enaan. Thomas Brown was Enaan’s fifth sufferer when his stumps had been rattled.
With not a lot batting left, Aidan misplaced his wicket to Enaan, as Soham picked up Vishwa for his third wicket because the guests had been bowled out for 214.
The scores: Aus U-19 293 & 214 in 67.4 overs (Mohamed Enaan 6/79) misplaced to Ind U-19 296 & 214/8 in 61.1 overs (Nitya Pandya 51, Nikhil 55 n.o., Aidan O’Connor 4/27).
Printed – October 03, 2024 03:23 am IST
