India Crush England by 100 Runs in Blockbuster Final as Vaibhav Suryavanshi Smashes 175

The game had everything, great batting, some excellent bowling, a short batting collapse, two centuries, and a brilliant 175-run innings. It truly felt like a blockbuster match. India performed better in key moments and fully deserved the win. They won by a huge margin of 100 runs.

India elected to bat first winning the toss and they lost their first wicket cheaply as Aaron George got out for just 9. But the duo of Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ayush Mhatre decided to take the bowlers on and to not get into the shell. Mhatre took the pacers on at the fag end of the powerplay and got Vaibhav as his bludgeoning partner. They batted for 15 overs together and their stay fetched India with 142 runs. Ayush Mhatre miscued a pull and got out for 53 off 51 balls.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi then decided to confront the English bowlers and chose belligerence as the only way to treat them. He got to his century in 55 balls and then converted into a 150 in just 71 balls. Then he batted for 9 more balls to score 25 more runs. His innings of 175 runs off 80 balls with 15 fours and as many sixes. At the time of his dismissal, India were scoring at almost 10 runs per over. Such was the impact of the innings.

Indian innings slowed down after Vaibhav's dismissal. Vedant Trivedi (32) and Vihaan Malhotra (30) made a couple of good contributions and RS Ambrish added 18 runs to the team total. Kanishk Chouhan batted well for his 37 off 20 balls and his blitzkrieg was instrumental in breaching the 400-run mark and India ended with 411/9.

For England, James Minto took 3 wickets for 63 runs. Sebastian Morgan and Alex Green took a couple of wickets each. Manny Lumsden took the wicket of Vaibhav Suryavanshi.

A Blockbuster Final Dominated by India’s Batting Brilliance and All-Round Performance

Chasing 412 was a daunting task specially in a high intensity knock out game but the in-form English top order was never in the mood of giving up. They lost the wicket of Joseph Moores early but the Ben duo went hammer and tongs against the Indian bowlers. They watched out the initial phase and started finding the boundaries. Together they scored 74 runs for the second wicket in 49 balls before Mayes got dismissed for 45 off 28.

Ben Dawkins got his skipper Thomas Rew as his partner then. Rew went hard at the bowlers right from the word go and scored 31 in his 18-ball stay. Dawkins was the biggest threat for the Indians. He completed his fifty and was batting with full confidence on 66 off 56 balls. Right then, Ayush Mhatre brought himself in the attack and proved to be a golden arm. He removed Dawkins and India got a bonus wicket as Ralphie Albert ran himself out. In the next over, Deepesh Devendran got Farhan Ahmed and Sebastian Morgan. England got the jolt of the highest order and were reduced to 177/7.

Caleb Falconer refused to give up. He got James Minto as his partner and started hitting the bad balls and got to his fifty in 26 balls. His partnership with James Minto delayed India's victory. They batted for 80 balls for the 8th wicket and added 92 to the team total before RS Ambrish removed Minto for 28. Caleb Falconer then lost another partner in Manny Lumsden. He decided to take the onus on himself with the last batter as his companion and continued the impossible fight for glory.

He got to his century in 63 balls and then hit a couple of more boundary shots before Khilan Patel grabbed a stupendous catch to terminate his innings. His innings of 115 runs in 67 balls helped England to post 311 on the board from a precarious position of 177/7. For India U-19, RS Ambrish took 3 wickets for 56 runs. Deepesh Devendran and Kanishk Chouhan took a couple of wickets each. Khilan Patel and Ayush Mhatre got a wicket apiece.

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