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Aaron George (right) and Vihaan Malhotra both received the Player of the Match award.
The Indian team has reached the finals of the Under-19 Asia Cup. The team defeated Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the semi-finals on Friday. Now the final will be played between India and Pakistan on Sunday.
The semi-final match was played at the ICC Academy Ground in Dubai. The match could not start on time due to rain. Later it was reduced to 20-20 overs.
After losing the toss and batting first, the Sri Lankan team could score only 138 runs for 8 wickets. Chameka Hinthigala scored the highest score of 42 runs. For India, Kanishk Chauhan and Henil Patel took 2 wickets each.
India won the match by scoring 139 runs losing two wickets in 18 overs. Vihaan Malhotra played an inning of 61 runs in 45 balls. Aaron George scored 58 runs in 49 balls. Rasith Neemsara took both the wickets for Sri Lanka.
Vihaan and Aaron added unbeaten 114 runs to give India victory.
India defeated Pakistan 6 times this year A total of seven matches were played between India and Pakistan in 2025. India defeated Pakistan by 90 runs in the league match of Under-19 Asia Cup (ODI). After this, India won by 6 wickets in the league match of Men’s Champions Trophy (ODI). Both the teams came face to face thrice in the Asia Cup (T20), where India defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets in the group stage, won the Super-4 by 6 wickets and won the trophy by 5 wickets in the final.
India’s dominance was also seen in the league match of the Women’s World Cup, where the Indian women’s team defeated Pakistan by 6 wickets. However, in the group stage of the Asia Cup Rising Stars (T20), Pakistan registered its only win by defeating India by 8 wickets. Overall in 2025, India won 6 out of 7 matches against Pakistan.
Sri Lanka had a bad start The Indian bowlers maintained pressure from the beginning and did not give the Sri Lankan batsmen a chance to play freely. Opener Dulnith Sigera was out after scoring just 1 run in 7 balls. Dejected Chamudita returned to the pavilion after scoring 19 runs on 11 balls.
Kavija Gamage was run out after scoring only 2 runs. In this way, 3 wickets of Sri Lanka fell within 28 runs. Captain Vimat Dinsage and Chamika Heenatigale tried to handle the innings, but no big partnership could be formed between the two.
In the end, Sethmika Senavaratne scored 30 runs in 22 balls and took the score beyond 130. Kanishk Chauhan and Henil Patel took 2-2 wickets for India. Kishan Kumar Singh, Deepesh Devendran and Khilan Patel got one success each.
Indian team celebrating after dismissing the Sri Lankan batsmen.
Vaibhav-Ayush were flops The Indian team did not have a good start while chasing the target. Openers Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ayush Mhatre were out early. Vaibhav returned to the pavilion after scoring 9 runs. Ayush could add only 7 runs. After this Aaron George and Vihaan Malhotra took over the innings. Both of them made an unbeaten partnership of 114 runs in 87 balls for the third wicket and gave the team victory.
Aaron George hit 4 fours and a six in his innings of 49 balls. Vihaan Malhotra played an aggressive inning of 61 runs in 45 balls and hit 4 fours and 2 sixes.
Vihaan Malhotra and Aaron George celebrating after India won the match.
Pakistan defeated Bangladesh in the semi-finals In the second semi-final, Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by 8 wickets. Now the final will be between India and Pakistan. This will be the second match of both the teams in the tournament. India had defeated Pakistan by 90 runs in the league stage.
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