There is great news for the Under-19 players of Pakistan cricket team. Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced to give a special cash prize of one crore Pakistani rupees to all the players of his country’s Under-19 Asia Cup winning team on Monday, December 22, 2025. Pakistan’s youth team won its first title by defeating India by 191 runs in the final match played in Dubai on Sunday, 21 December. Sharif made this announcement at a welcome ceremony organized for the team and its support staff in Islamabad.

Team mentor and manager Sarfaraz Ahmed gave a statement

After the welcome ceremony held in Islamabad, team mentor and manager Sarfaraz Ahmed told the media that Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced a cash prize of Rs 1 crore for each player. Earlier, according to reports, Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Mohsin Naqvi had announced a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh each for the players of the junior team that won the Asia Cup.

Sameer Minhas was the hero of the victory against India

In the final match of Under-19 Asia Cup 2025, Pakistan defeated the Indian team by a margin of 191 runs. The hero of Pakistan’s victory was Sameer Minhas, who played an excellent inning of 172 runs in 113 balls with the help of 9 sixes and 17 fours. In bowling for Pakistan, Ali Raza bowled brilliantly and took 4 important wickets for 42 runs in 6.2 overs. Apart from Ali, Mohammad Sayyam, Abdul Subhan and Huzaifa Ehsan also took 2 wickets each.

BCCI sought answers after the defeat from Pakistan

BCCI is looking strict after India’s embarrassing defeat to Pakistan in the Under-19 Asia Cup. This time BCCI will not depend only on the written report of the team manager. BCCI has asked for direct talks with head coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar and captain Ayush Mhatre and answers on their performance in the final match.

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.