{"id":363382,"date":"2025-12-21T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363382\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:20:06","slug":"recent-match-report-india-under-19s-vs-pakistan-under-19s-asian-cricket-council-under-19s-asia-cup-2025-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363382\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Match Report &#8211; India Under-19s vs Pakistan Under-19s, Asian Cricket Council Under-19s Asia Cup 2025, Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan 347 for 8 (Minhas 172, Hussain 56, Devendran 3-83) beat India 156 (Devendran 36, Raza 4-42, Ahsan 2-12) by 191 runs<\/p>\n<p>Opener <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/sameer-minhas-1515069\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sameer Minhas<\/a> blitzed his way to 172 off 113 balls, setting up Pakistan&#8217;s demolition of India in the Under-19 Asia Cup final in Dubai. In response to Pakistan&#8217;s 347 for 8, India folded for 156 in 26.2 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Minhas&#8217; knock was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/records\/team\/batting-most-runs-innings\/pakistan-under-19s-young-cricketers-3015\/under-19s-youth-one-day-internationals-21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highest individual score<\/a> for Pakistan, and also, the highest individual score by <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/stats\/index.html?class=21;filter=advanced;final_type=1;orderby=batted_score;template=results;type=batting;view=innings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">any batter in a final<\/a> in Youth ODIs. He hit 17 fours and nine sixes during his stay, and fell in the 43rd over, finishing with a strike rate of 152.21.<\/p>\n<p>In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/vaibhav-suryavanshi-1408688\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vaibhav Suryavanshi<\/a> &#8211; having scored 5, 50, 9 and 26 in tournament since his 171 against UAE &#8211; made an explosive start to India&#8217;s chase. He smashed three sixes and a four, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ali-raza-1339138\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Raza<\/a> had him nicking off for 26 off 10 balls. India had reached their fifty in the fifth over and by the end of the powerplay, they were 68 for 5.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Ali Raza celebrates a wicket\u00a0CREIMAS\/ACC<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan came into the final having bowled out each of their opposing batting line-ups in the tournament. This contest was no different &#8211; four Pakistan bowlers shared wickets among them, with Raza prising out three more wickets to finish with match figures of 4 for 42.<\/p>\n<p>India were reduced to 120 for 9, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/deepesh-devendran-1465782\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deepesh Devendran<\/a> offered some late resistance with 36 off 16 balls, including six fours and two sixes. No other India batter passed 30 in the chase. India&#8217;s innings ended when Raza had Devendran holing out in the 27th over.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Devendran had copped punishment from the Pakistan batters, conceding 83 runs in his ten overs though he took three wickets at the death.<\/p>\n<p>Minhas was well-supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ahmed-hussain-1339090\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmed Hussain<\/a> &#8211; the only other batter to cross fifty in the innings. Hussain made 56 off 72 balls and added 137 for the third wicket along with Minhas.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan faced a slight slowdown in the death overs, especially once Minhas was dismissed &#8211; they only managed 71 runs in the final ten for the loss of five wickets. Devendran took three of those wickets, but his death bowling was a footnote by the time he swung for the hills in India&#8217;s chase, and was eventually caught at point.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan wrapped up a 191-run win and tuned up nicely for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan 347 for 8 (Minhas 172, Hussain 56, Devendran 3-83) beat India 156 (Devendran 36, Raza 4-42, Ahsan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-363382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}