Pardeep Sangwan puts India on top
17 year old Pradeep Sangwan of Delhi, a left-arm medium pacer who swings the ball both ways at a nippy pace, has crippled South Africa by picking up four wickets in five overs! Earlier SA won the toss and elected to bat and ran right into Pardeep Sangwan who made SA batsmen look clueless against his swing bowling he was ably supported on the other end by Argal. SA were bundled out for 149 in 30.1 overs India are 51/1 as the match is still in progress.
India went on to win the match comfortably and maintained their top position in the group B their team looks very balanced and very impressive.
Defending champions struggling against the kiwis
Newzealand won the toss and put Pakistan into bat their seamers made full use of the conditions and sent four Pakistani batsmen back to the pavilion for just 28 runs. Pakistan recovered because of a gutsy innings from Salah-ud-din and A Asad, in the end they were restricted to 156 in 47.1 overs. The champions will have to bowl their heart out to win this one.
Pakistan’s bowlers were upto the task, reducing New Zealand to 51 for 4 in the 23rd over. Harry Boam led the chase with a patient 38 and his partnership with Greg Morgan took them closer but legspinner Ahmed Shehzad grabbed three wickets to hasten the end.
Most of the Under-19 players looks good enough to play for the senior team in due course of time by their perfomance in the press coverage.
Lets hope they get proper coaching and guidance in future to hone their skills and polish the rough edges, if any.
But above all, the success does not go into their young and formative heads!!
Thanks for posting and come on team pakistan let’s win a hatrick of world cups. No particlular name to be mentioned everyone played contibuted and played superbly.