Australia Under-19 vs India Under-19: A three-match Youth ODI series is being played between the Indian Under-19 team and the Australia Under-19 team. In the second match of this series, the Indian Under-19 team defeated the Australian Under-19 team by 9 wickets. In this match, opener batsman Sahil Parakh batted brilliantly for India. He scored a powerful century and played an important role in leading the team to victory. After winning the second match, the Indian Under-19 team took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the Youth ODI series. In the first ODI, India won in a one-sided manner by 7 wickets.
Sahil Parakh played a great innings.
Sahil Parakh played an unbeaten innings of 109 runs in 75 balls with 14 fours and five sixes, thanks to which the Indian team achieved the target of 177 runs in just 22 overs. After the departure of Rudra Patel (10) early, 19-year-old Sahil from Mumbai shared a 153-run partnership with Abhigyan Kundu (53 not out, 50 balls, 9 fours) to take the host team to the target. The Indian Under-19 team had no trouble winning the match.
The Australian team’s batsmen flopped.
The batsmen of the Australian Under-19 team could not perform well and the team could not even play the full 50 overs. The Australian team was all out at 176 runs in 49.3 overs. The Australian batsmen failed to convert the good start into a big innings. For the visiting team, middle-order batsman Addison Sheriff scored the highest 39 runs with the help of two fours in 61 balls. For India, apart from fast bowler Samarth Nagaraj (two wickets for 34 runs), leg spinner Mohammad Inan (two wickets for 30 runs) and off-spinner Kiran Chormale (two wickets for 29 runs) also took two wickets each.
The third and final match of the three-match series will be played on September 26. After this, there will be a series of two unofficial Test matches in Chennai from September 30. The first Test match will be played from September 30 to October 3. The second Test will be played from October 7 to 10.