Sameer Minhas Player Of The Tournament: Pakistan Under-19 opening batsman Sameer Minhas has shone in the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup 2025. This 19 year old young batsman scored the most runs in the entire tournament, for which he was chosen ‘Player of the Tournament’. Sameer played a brilliant inning of 172 runs against India in the final match of Under-19 Asia, in which he played a total of 113 balls and hit 17 fours and 9 sixes, after which he was awarded the ‘Player of the Match’ award. On the basis of the excellent batting of Minhas, Pakistan won the second title of Under-19 Asia Cup by defeating India by 191 runs in the final match.

Who is Sameer Minhas?

Sameer Minhas is the son of former Pakistan Under-19 cricketer Kashif Minhas and his elder brother is Arafat Minhas, who has played four T20 Internationals for Pakistan between 2023 and 2024. Samir’s father Kashif Minhas had recognized his and his elder brother Arafat’s talent long ago. After which, he shifted to Lahore with the entire family for better cricketing facilities.

Sameer gave statement after winning the match

When the 19-year-old young batsman was asked whether there was any extra pressure of playing in the title match against traditional rivals India, Sameer said after winning the match, ‘India vs Pakistan is always a big match, but personally I did not feel any extra pressure. I just wanted to play my natural game and focused on that.

Sameer scored runs at an average of 157 in Asia Cup

Sameer Minhas scored the highest 471 runs in the Under-19 Asia Cup, in which he had an excellent average of 157 and strike rate of 117.45. Sameer will be seen playing again in the ICC Men’s Under-19 World Cup next month. The way his performance has been, it seems that he is going to get many more opportunities in future, due to which now everyone’s eyes will be on Sameer in the Under-19 World Cup.

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.