HARARE: The U-19 Cricket World Cup has witnessed the very comfortable wins of India and the West Indies in their group matches, while the match involving Zimbabwe and Scotland was declared abandoned without any ball being bowled.
In the first match at Bulawayo, the USA set India a target of 108 runs. Nonetheless, the DLS technique altered the target to 96 runs that the umpires had set for India and the team managed to get there with just four batters dismissed. The whole thing took 18 overs from India.
At the same time, the match between Zimbabwe and Scotland at Harare was interrupted by rain and unfortunately, it ended up without a single ball being bowled which consequently led to no points being awarded to either team from this encounter.
Sameer Minhas shatters world record with fastest Under-19 century
Additionally, Sameer Minhas, the Pakistan Under-19 opener scored the fastest century in Under-19 cricket, surpassing the long-standing world record of the Indian player who held it till now.
The rising star of Pakistan made this historic move during the final of the One-Day Tri-Series in Harare against the Zimbabwean U-19 team, the hosts. Minhas finished the one-day match with his three figures of century in merely four dozen balls, which made it the fastest hundred ever recorded in youth one-day international cricket.
The prior record holder was India’s Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who had scored a century off 52 balls against England in July last year.
Meanwhile, Minhas did not let the final slow him down as he scored 114 runs from 51 balls which included 17 fours and five sixes. His intense batting knocked down the Zimbabwe bowlers and hence proved to be the winning factor in the match.
Pakistan Under-19 team, which only needed to score 159 runs, did it quite easily, losing just one wicket and thus, won the One-Day Tri-Series title without any difficulty.
The record-breaking performance of Sameer Minhas has not only indicated the increasing power of Pakistan in the youth category but also the upcoming star batters in international cricket.
