{"id":457473,"date":"2026-02-04T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457473\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:44:08","slug":"stanikzai-comes-in-for-aqil-as-afghanistan-bat-india-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457473\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanikzai comes in for Aqil as Afghanistan bat; India unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toss Afghanistan U-19 chose to bat vs India U-19<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat in the semi-final of the Under-19 World Cup. They made one change, bringing in fast bowler Khatir Stanikzai in place of Aqil Khan.<\/p>\n<p>Stanikzai has played all but the last Super Sixes game and comes back in, replacing Aqil who picked up 3 for 36 against Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>India have, meanwhile, fielded an unchanged XI from their previous game against Pakistan. &#8220;The boys are doing well and the attitude they are showing is great. We just want to play simple cricket,&#8221; India captain Ayush Mhatre said at the toss.<\/p>\n<p>India come into the semi-final unbeaten and on the back of a convincing 58-run win against Pakistan. Afghanistan have had one slip-up against Sri Lanka but are coming off a big 191-run win against Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>India: 1 Aaron George, 2 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 3 Ayush Mhatre (capt), 4 Vihaan Malhotra, 5 Abhigyan Kundu (wk), 6 Vedant Trivedi, 7 RS Ambrish, 8 Kanishk Chouhan, 9 Khilan Patel, 10 Henil Patel, 11 Deepesh Devendran<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan: 1 Osman Sadat, 2 Khalid Ahmadzai, 3 Faisal Shinozada, 4 Uzairullah Niazai, 5 Mahboob Khan (capt &amp; wk), 6 Azizullah Miakhil, 7 Khatir Stanikzai, 8 Abdul Aziz, 9 Roohullah Arab, 10 Nooristani Omarzai, 11 Wahidullah Zadran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Afghanistan U-19 chose to bat vs India U-19 Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-457473","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\/457473","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=457473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}