December 31
U19 Asia Cup final Updates…
India and Sri Lanka are playing today the U19 Asia Cup final at the Dubai International Stadium. Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first against India.
Further, Sri Lankan batters are on the backfoot now as Indian bowlers took three early wickets of Sri Lanka. Ravi Kumar and Raj Bawa have picked a wicket each, giving away just eight and nine runs respectively.
India entered the final after finishing second in Group A, losing only to Pakistan by two wickets. In the semifinal on Thursday, India defeated Bangladesh by 103 runs.
Sri Lanka is also second in Group B due to Bangladesh having a superior net run rate and are currently the only unbeaten team in the tournament.
In the other semifinal on Thursday, Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 22 runs.
U19 Asia Cup was started in the year 1989. So far, ACC has organized 8 editions of the tournament and India have been winners seven times (including sharing the trophy with Pakistan in 2012) while Afghanistan were the winners in the 2017 edition.
Squads:
India: Harnoor Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shaik Rasheed, Yash Dhull (captain), Nishant Sindhu, Raj Bawa, Aaradhya Yadav (wicketkeeper), Kaushal Tambe, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Vicky Ostwal and Ravi Kumar.
Sri Lanka: Chamindu Wickramasinghe, Shevon Daniel, Anjala Bandara (wicketkeeper), Dunith Wellalage (captain), Ranuda Somarathne, Raveen de Silva, Treveen Mathew, Yasiru Rodrigo, Pawan Pathiraja, Sadisha Rajapaksa and Matheesha Pathirana.
