The final match of the 2025 Under-19 Asia Cup is being played between India and Pakistan in Dubai. After electing to bat first, Pakistan gave India a huge target of 348 runs. However, at one time Pakistan’s score was beyond 300 for just 3 wickets in 43 overs, but in the last overs, the Indian bowlers bowled brilliantly and restricted Pakistan to within 350. For Pakistan, opener Sameer Minhas played an explosive inning of 172 runs in 113 balls. During this period, 17 fours and 9 sixes came from his bat. Whereas for India, Deepesh Devendran took maximum three wickets.

To win the title, India will have to make the biggest run chase in the title match in the history of Under-19 Asia Cup. Pakistan has scored the highest score in the final of Under-19 Asia Cup. Pakistan scored 347 runs for 8 wickets in 50 overs. Now the Indian team will have big expectations from Vaibhav Suryavanshi and captain Ayush Mhatre.

After losing the toss and coming to bat first, Pakistan Under-19 team managed to make a fast start. In a 50-50 over match, the score was beyond 30 in just 3 overs. The first wicket fell in the fourth over. Hamza Zahoor was out after scoring 18 runs in 14 balls. Two sixes and one four came from his bat. Usman Khan, who came at number three, played an innings of 35 runs in 45 balls with the help of three fours and one six.

From one side, Sameer Minhas was scoring runs rapidly. The other side was batting with caution. Number four Ahmed Hussain played a half-century innings of 56 runs in 72 balls. However, Sameer Minhas was playing openly. Sameer played a brilliant inning of 172 runs in 113 balls with the help of 17 fours and 9 sixes. Captain Farhan Yusuf scored 19 runs in 18 balls. Two fours and a six came from his bat.

As soon as Sameer Minhas was out, the Pakistani batsmen were out on the lines of ‘Tu chal main aaya’. Indian bowlers gave only 45 runs in the last 7 overs. For India, Deepesh Devendran took three wickets for 83 runs in 10 overs. Khilan Patel took 2 wickets for just 44 runs in 10 overs. Henal Patel also got two successes.

ACC Men’s Under-19 Asia Cup 2025: Deepesh Devendran of Tamil Nadu is a right arm medium bowler, who is currently a part of Team India in the Under-19 Asia Cup 2025. Recently, Deepesh has started playing cricket at the junior level and has impressed with his bowling. In the ongoing Asia Cup in Dubai, Deepesh took 3 wickets for just 16 wickets in 7 overs against Pakistan and the Pakistani batsmen had no match against his tight bowling. Due to which Team India was successful in achieving a big victory. Deepesh bowled brilliantly in the first match of the tournament and was successful in taking 2 wickets for 21 runs against UAE.

What was the result of India-Pakistan match?

In this match, Pakistan won the toss and invited Team India to bat first, in response to which Team India was all out for 240 runs in 46.1 overs. In this innings, Aaron George played an excellent inning of 85 runs for India. Apart from him, captain Ayush Mhatre (38 runs) and Kanishk Chauhan (46 runs) also made useful contributions. After this, while chasing the target of 241 runs, the Pakistani team could not recover from the initial setbacks and were reduced to just 150 runs in 41.2 overs. For Pakistan, Huzaif Ahsan scored 70 runs in 83 balls with the help of 9 fours and 2 sixes and apart from opener Usman Khan (16 runs) and captain Farhan Yousaf (23 runs), no other batsman could even reach double digits. At the same time, after batting, Kanishk also performed brilliantly in bowling and took 3 wickets for 33 in 10 overs. Apart from these, Deepesh took 3 wickets and Kishan took 2 wickets, while Khilan Patel and Vaibhav Suryavanshi also managed to take one wicket each.

Kanishk did an all-round performance

Team India’s all-rounder Kanishk Chauhan, batting first, scored 46 runs in 46 balls with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes and while bowling, he also took 3 wickets for 33 runs. Kanishk was given the ‘Player of the Match’ award for his excellent all-round performance.