Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s bat failed in the semi-finals, Afghanistan’s target of 311 runs was dwarfed.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi played a brilliant innings in the second semi-final of the Under-19 World Cup being played against Afghanistan, scoring 68 runs in 33 balls with the help of 9 fours and 4 sixes. After this innings of Vaibhav, the target of 311 runs given by Afghanistan also started looking small.

A lot was riding on Vaibhav in the competition. Only after the target was bigger than 300 runs, the discussion intensified that if Vaibhav’s bat prevails in the match, then victory could be very easy for Team India. Vaibhav, who came to open, could not reach a century, but did his job with a brilliant innings.

Great partnership for the first wicket

Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Aaron George, who opened the run chase, made a partnership of 90 runs for the first wicket. In this partnership, Vaibhav contributed 68 runs and Aaron contributed 21 runs. Team India got a good start with this partnership. The thing to note is that India had put the score of 90 runs on the board even before 10 overs.

A blistering 24-ball half-century from Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to start the run chase 👏

India U19 are 84/0 after 9 overs.

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Afghanistan made a big total

In the match, Afghanistan won the toss and decided to bowl and scored 310 runs for 4 wickets on the board in 50 overs. During this, Faisal Shinozada played the biggest innings for the team and scored 110 runs in 93 balls with the help of 15 fours. Apart from this, Uzairullah Niazai scored 101* runs in 86 balls with the help of 12 fours and 2 sixes.

Apart from this, Usman Sadat, who came in the opening, could not make his innings big, but he helped the team in getting a good start by scoring 39 runs in 70 balls with the help of 3 fours. During this period, Deepesh Devendran and Kanishk Chauhan took maximum 2-2 wickets for India. Now it will be interesting to see how Team India performs in the chase. The team that wins this second semi-final will play the title match against England on Friday, 6 February.