India Reaches Final By Beating South Africa In Under-19 WORLD CUP
IND vs SA Under-19 World Cup Semi-Final: India played against South Africa in the Under-19 World Cup Semi-Final. The important part is that India won the game by 2 wickets against South Africa. This means India will play in the final of the ICC Under 19 World Cup 2024.
India Into The Finals Of ICC Under-19 World Cup
The first semi-final of the under-19 World Cup was played between India and South Africa on 6 Feb 2024. India won the toss and decided to ball first, South Africa batted first and gave a target of 245. Uday Saharan won the toss and decided India would chase in the first semi-final. This became the first time India chose to bowl first, as they had batted first in all five previous video games.
Even though South Africa slowed down at some point in the game, they still scored an excellent amount of runs because they performed aggressively at the start and end of their innings. They scored a total of 245 runs while batting first.
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Raj Limbani got an early breakthrough by taking the wicket of Steve Stolk, who hit two fours and a six but got out trying to hit a wide delivery. After Stolk’s dismissal, Lhuan-dre Pretorius began to hit boundaries freely. Despite losing David Teeger for no runs to a great delivery from Limbani, South Africa was at a solid 55/2 by the end of the first Powerplay. India’s spinners managed to slow down the scoring, allowing only 63 runs between overs 11 and 30. Pretorius tried his best to pressure and was caught trying to hit Musheer Khan over mid-wicket. Abhishek Murugan made a remarkable catch, stopping a fast-moving ball with both hands.
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Richard Seletswane and Oliver Whitehead tried to increase the run rate with aggressive shots, but Saharan remained with his spinners. This strategy worked when Whitehead was dismissed at the end of the 40th over. In the 43rd over, Seletswane was joined by skipper Juan James. Their partnership boosted South Africa’s innings, and they became the first team to score over 200 runs against India in the tournament.
Naman Tiwari and Limbani took wickets in the late overs, but powerful hitting from Tristan Luus, who scored 23 runs from 12 balls, helped South Africa reach a total of 244/7.
On the other hand, Kwena Maphaka started the innings with a strong delivery, causing Adarsh Singh to hit the ball with the edge of his bat, sending it to the wicketkeeper. Then, within the fourth over, Tristan Luus stuck Musheer Khan, one of India’s first-class batters in the tournament, at second slip, while he had only scored four runs.
Luus led the African crew by taking two greater wickets early in the sport, making India stand at 32/4 by the 12th over. After a careful start, Saharan and Sachin Dhas commenced to boost up. Dhas started to score runs fast and hit 3 boundaries in the 19th over. India reached one hundred runs within the 25th over. Dhas had already scored fifty runs by the time they reached a partnership of a hundred.
As India got stronger, Juan James put Luus and Maphaka back to bowl. But India’s fifth pair stayed calm. They carefully run between the wickets with strong hits to get closer to winning. Maphaka got Dhas out, hitting the ball to the fielders in the 43rd over. This broke their partnership. Maphaka did well and got Avanish Aravelly out on his last bowling ball. Now, India needed 19 runs from 18 balls.
Saharan, and with help from Raj Limbani, almost reached the target, even though India lost a few wickets. Limbani scored the winning runs in the second last ball of the 49th over. However, when the scores were tied, India lost their captain for 81 runs due to a fantastic run-out.
India will face either Pakistan or Australia in the final match on Sunday. The second semi-final will be played between Pakistan and Australia on 8 February 2024.
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