India, meanwhile, also arrive at the final unbeaten and full of confidence. The five-time champions once again find themselves in the title match for the ninth occasion after a dominant campaign.<\/p>\n
Their semi-final win over Afghanistan showcased their batting depth<\/a>, with Aaron George notching up a superb 115 (104) as India scripted the tournament-best successful chase of 311. George\u2019s opening partner Vaibhav Sooryavanshi set the tone at the top<\/a> with a blistering 33-ball 68, providing the platform for the rest of the innings.<\/p>\n Captain Ayush Mhatre, who contributed a fluent 62 runs off 59 balls, echoed Rew\u2019s sentiments about staying grounded ahead of the final.<\/p>\n \u201cEngland are a fabulous team and they\u2019re playing really well in this tournament,\u201d Mhatre said.<\/p>\n \u201cFor us, it\u2019s about playing our natural game, taking each ball on its merit, and adapting to the conditions. We want to keep things simple.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India, meanwhile, also arrive at the final unbeaten and full of confidence. The five-time champions once again find…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95830,95836,214643,95841,214639,95853,95852,7301,214640,95851,214637,214647,95834,161130,90626,85,103412,214636,214642,214644,214646,214641,214645,214635,214638],"class_list":["post-461162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-live-score","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-world-cup-2026","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-news","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-under-19-world-cup","tag-icc-youth-tournaments","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-junior-cricket","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-sports","tag-today-cricket-match-score","tag-u19-cricket-world-cup-2026","tag-u19-live-score-today","tag-under-19-cricket-fixtures","tag-under-19-cricket-highlights","tag-under-19-cricket-live-score","tag-under-19-cricket-results","tag-under-19-cricket-world-cup","tag-youth-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461162","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=461162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}