A very Surprising day at U19 Asia Cup, Both of the cricket giants, India & Pakistan, are out of U19 Asia Cup! UAE & Bangladesh Qualified for the Final of the Under 19 Asia Cup by Beating Pakistan & India respectively. Pakistan & India were the Favorites for this Asia Cup, not only these Semi Finals! but these unexpected Semi Final results show that Cricket is Growing, no more only Super 8 teams!
in 1st Semi Final, UAE beat Pakistan by 11 runs after tough competition. Pakistan won the toss & elected to field. UAE scored only 193 runs with help of Captain Ayan Afzal Khan’s 55 runs of 57 balls. Ubaid Shah took 4 wickets for 44 runs by Pakistan. in reply, Pakistani batsmen struggled against UAE bowling, & there were 3 Run Outs in this innings. Pakistan captain Saad Baig top scored with 50 of 52 runs. Ayman Ahmed got 2 wickets for 18 runs & Hardik Pai got 2 wickets for 35 runs. earlier, UAE U19 Beat Sri Lanka U19 to Qualify for Semi Final.
in 2nd Semi Final, Bangladesh U19 beat india by 4 wickets. Bangladesh won the Toss & Elected to Field 1st. india u19 were in serious trouble with 6 wickets down on 61 runs. Musheer khan & Murugan Abhishek provided some help with 50 runs of 61 balls & 62 runs of 74 balls, india got out on 188 runs in 42.4 overs. Left arm fast bowler Maruf Mridha was pick of the bowlers with 4 wickets for 41 runs. in reply Bangladesh U19 chased this target with 43 balls to spare. Ariful Islam was top scorer with 94 runs of 90 balls. Naman Tiwari got 3 wickets for 35 runs by india.
Final of the U19 Asia Cup will be played on 17th of December 2023 between UAE & Bangladesh
