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call me27 January. With the help of Vihaan Malhotra’s powerful centuries (109 not out, 107 balls, seven fours) and half-centuries by Abhigyan Kundu (61 runs, 62 balls, one six, five fours) and opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi (52 runs, 30 balls, four sixes, four fours), India continued its might in the Super Sixes stage of the ICC Under-19 World Cup and on Tuesday. Here a big win of 204 runs was registered over Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe was reduced to 148 in front of a mountain of 352 runs.

The Indian team, which defeated America, Bangladesh and New Zealand in a one-sided fashion in Group B of the preliminary league, batted first after losing the toss at the Queen’s Sports Club Ground and scored a huge score of 352 runs for eight wickets and then bowled out Zimbabwe for 148 runs in 37.4 overs.

Meeting Pakistan on February 1 in the second match of Super Six phase.

It is noteworthy that while topping the preliminary league Group B, India (B1) had entered Group 2 of the Super Six with an advantage of four points along with two other teams of the group, Bangladesh (B2) and New Zealand (B3). These four points were earned by Indians from matches against Bangladesh and New Zealand. Now in the second and final match of Super Six, the Indian team will face the challenge of Pakistan on 1st February.

Mhatre, Uddhav and Ambarish caught the opposition batsmen

Talking about the match, Zimbabwe, who were chasing a mountain-like score, got off to a bad start when pacers RS Ambarish (2-19) and Henil Patel (1-25) lost three batsmen within 24 runs in the ninth overs. After that, off-spinner captain Ayush Mhatre (3-14) and left-arm pacer Uddhav Mohan (3-14) caught the subsequent batsmen.

The last 6 batsmen returned within 24 balls and six runs.

For Zimbabwe, the struggles of top scorers Leeroy Chiwaula (62 runs, 77 balls, one six, seven fours), Kian Blignaut (37 runs, 73 runs, four fours) and Tatenda Chimugoro (29 runs, 29 balls, two sixes, one four) were inadequate. In these, there was a partnership of 69 runs between Leeroy and Blignaut for the fourth wicket, while Leeroy and Tatenda added 49 runs for the fifth wicket. But the last six batsmen of the team returned within 24 balls and six runs.

Partnership of 113 runs for the fifth wicket between Malhotra and Kundu

Before this, there was a partnership of 113 runs on 115 balls for the fifth wicket between ‘Player of the Match’ Malhotra and Kundu. At the beginning of the innings, Vaibhav Suryavanshi hit a quick fifty. First, he scored 44 runs in just 26 balls with Aaron George (23 runs, 16 balls, one six, two fours). After that, between Vaibhav and captain Mhatre (21 runs, 19 balls, two sixes, one four) the second wicket reached 56 runs on 38 balls. Thus India completed its first 100 runs in just 64 balls.

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Tatenda Chimugoro (3-49) returned Mhatre and Suryavanshi in the 11th over of the innings and the same bowler disappointed Vedant Trivedi (15 runs, 18 balls, one four) (4-130). After this, Malhotra and Kundu showed their sharp hands and led the team to a big score.

Vihaan along with Ambarish and Khilan took the team beyond 350.

After Kundu’s return, Malhotra added 52 runs for the seventh wicket with Ambarish (21 runs, 28 balls, one four) and then for the eighth wicket, along with the aggressive Khilan Patel (30 runs, 12 balls, three sixes, one four), a partnership of 47 runs took India beyond 350.