The last match of Group 6 of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2026 is today between India and Pakistan. Although every match between the teams of the two countries is exciting, but today it is about the semi-finals. Australia and Afghanistan have reached the semi-finals from Group 1. England has confirmed its place in Group 2, now only India and Pakistan are in the race for the last spot. ICC explained that Pakistan will have to win by how many runs or with how many balls remaining, so that it can reach the semi-finals.

In the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, Australia secured the top position from Group 1, Afghanistan remained at second position. England have played their 4 matches from Group 1, after which they have 8 points and a net run rate of +1.757. England is on top. India is at second place, which has played 3 matches and has a net run rate of +3.337 with 6 points. Pakistan is in third place with 4 points, the team’s net run rate is +1.484.

India needs victory to reach semi-finals

If the Indian Under-19 team beats Pakistan today, the team will have 8 points equal to England and will also come first in the points table. In this situation, India will face Afghanistan in the semi-finals. Therefore, India just has to win to reach the semi-finals. However, even after losing, Team India can enter the semi-finals.

Pakistan’s equation

ICC told in its report that Pakistan will have to win by how many runs or with how many balls remaining to reach the semi-finals. If Pakistan bats first then the team will have to win by a margin of 105 or more runs to reach the semi-finals.

If Pakistan team fields first then it will have to achieve the target at a very fast pace. Suppose if Pakistan gets the target of 251 then they will have to achieve it before 29.4 overs.

In the final of Asia Cup held in December last year, Pakistan Under-19 team had defeated Indian Under-19 team by a huge margin of 191 runs.

Team India defeated Pakistan by 90 runs in the Under-19 Asia Cup. Batting first, the Indian Under-19 team was all out for 240 runs, Vaibhav Suryavanshi could not do anything special with the bat. Vaibhav, who played a historic inning of 171 runs in the last match, could score only 5 runs against Pakistan. Although he gave deep wounds to Pakistan with the ball, he took the big wicket of Pakistan captain Farhan Yousuf.

Pakistan had to score 241 runs to win, then it seemed that India might lose the match. Pakistan’s opening pair Usman Khan and Sameer Minhas made a slow start, but could not make it big. Minhas, who scored 177 runs in the last match, was out after scoring 9 runs against India. After losing 4 wickets for 30 runs, there was a good partnership between Pakistan captain Farhan Yousaf and Huzaifa Ahsan, which was broken by Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Team India made a comeback.

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The partnership for the 5th wicket between Farhan Yousaf and Huzaifa Ahsan was moving towards half-century, both seemed to be in good form. No main bowler of India could break this partnership, but it was broken by Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Captain Ayush Mhatre handed the 24th over to Vaibhav, in which he got Farhan Yusuf caught out. Yusuf and Ahsan had made a partnership of 47 runs.

Pakistan team collapsed at 150

After the breakup of this pair, Huzaifa Ahsan batted well, but no other batsman could support her. Huzaifa scored 70 runs in 83 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 9 fours. 7 batsmen of Pakistan Under-19 team could not even touch double figures. Pakistan was all out for 150 runs. Indian Under-19 team won this match by 90 runs.

Deepesh Devendran and Kanishk Chauhan took 3-3 wickets for India. Kishan Kumar Singh took 2 wickets. Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Khilan Patel took 1-1 wicket.