Manny Lumsden took five wickets as England booked their spot in the semi-finals of the men’s Under-19 World Cup with a 65-run over New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Hampshire seamer Lumsden bowled superbly on a slow pitch at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo to finish with impressive figures of 5-17 as the Kiwis were bowled out for 169 in pursuit of 235.<\/p>\n
England will play either Australia or Afghanistan in the semi-finals on 3 or 4 February depending on how India perform in their final group game of the Super Six stage against Pakistan.<\/p>\n
India are currently in second spot with six points but have a superior net run-rate (+3.337) compared to England’s (+1.757), with the group winners facing Afghanistan and the runners-up playing the Aussies.<\/p>\n
“It’s nice to win and know we are through. We are looking forward to the semi-finals now,” said England captain Thomas Rew.<\/p>\n
“Manny has been good all tournament. He’s bowled quick and been aggressive, having firepower like that is a great asset.”<\/p>\n
England compiled a patient 234-7 after being asked to bat first by the Kiwis on a tricky deck.<\/p>\n
Ben Dawkins made 42 as he and fellow opener Joseph Moores put on 48 for the first wicket to give England a solid platform.<\/p>\n
Dawkins then shared a stand for the same amount with tournament leading runscorer Ben Mayes, who top scored for England with 53 off 70 balls. <\/p>\n
Caleb Falconer (47) and Farhan Ahmed (29) provided some late impetus as Snehith Reddy took 2-28 for the Black Caps.<\/p>\n
Lumsden did the early damage for England with the ball when he removed the dangerous Hugo Bogue and Kiwi captain Tom Jones in the eighth over.<\/p>\n
Reddy provided some resistance with a stoic 47 off 65 balls, while Jaskaran Sandhu chipped in with 26 before he became Lumsden’s third wicket.<\/p>\n
Lumsden returned two balls later to wrap up the victory, bowling Harry Burns and Hunter Shore with consecutive deliveries.<\/p>\n
“It’s a great result and I’m really proud of how we stuck at it with the bat. We knew 230 or 240 would be a good score,” Rew added.<\/p>\n
“It was a tough wicket, very inconsistent, and then the way our seamers bowled was incredible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Lumsden took five wickets as England booked their spot in the semi-finals of the men’s Under-19 World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-448312","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\/448312","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=448312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}