The Australia team wins the third final against the India team.
The Australian team has started to have stressful moments for the Indian team.
India and Australia faced each other in the third final in the past seven months, and Australia nailed it again.
The heartbreak for the Indian fans continues as the India U-19 team lost the World Cup finals against the Australia U-19 team.
This was the third time in a row that the Australian team beat India.
First was the ICC Test Championship, where Australia beat India.
Then was the ICC Men’s World Cup, where, despite being unbeaten in the tournament until the finals.
India lost the finals against Australia, as they won the cup.
Match Details
The finals of the ICC U-19 World Cup were going to be played on February 11th.
India and Australia were going to face each other, as both have been unbeaten till now.
The Australian team won the toss and elected to bat first.
Australia Innings
Harry Dixon and Sam Konstas opened the innings for Australia.
Raj Limbani didn’t let them settle down as he bowled Sam in the third over.
Harry and Hugh started to form a good partnership as they were taking the game forward.
Naman Tiwari broke their partnership as he took the wicket of Hugh, and in his next over, he took the wicket of Harry.
Harjas and Oliver started to build another important partnership.
As Harjas completed his half-century and by both of their knocks, Australia reached a total of 253/7.
Raj Limbani took three wickets, while Naman Tiwari took two wickets.
India Innings
Adarsh Singh and Arshin Kulkarni opened the innings for India.
They weren’t able to give a great start to the team as Arshin lost his wicket.
After Arshin, no other batsmen were able to stand for long as India started to lose quick wickets.
Adarsh and Murugan, in between, tried to handle the situation and built a partnership.
They weren’t able to take the match long as the Australian bowlers took their wickets.
India lost all the wickets by 174 runs as Australia won the U-19 World Cup by 79 runs.
Mahli Beardman and Raf Macmillan took three wickets each, while Callum Vidler took two wickets.
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— ICC (@ICC) February 12, 2024