India recorded an exhilarating comeback two-wicket win towards South Africa to storm into the ICC U19 ODI World Cup 2024 closing on Tuesday. Sachin Dhas and Uday Saharan’s 171-run stand for the fifth wicket helped the defending champions chase down a 245-run goal after dropping the primary 4 wickets on 32 in Benoni.
Lhuan-dre Pretorius registered his third consecutive fifty on this match by smashing 76 off 102 and struggling batter Richard Seletswane added 64 runs to assist the Proteas rating a difficult whole of 244/7 whereas batting first.
However regardless of an early collapse from the Indian prime order, Dhas’ 96 off 95 balls and 81 runs from captain Saharan guided the younger weapons to a memorable win within the first semifinal. India shall be dealing with the winner of the second semifinalists between Pakistan and Australia within the closing on February 11.
After successful the essential toss on the Willomoore Park, the Indian captain elected to bowl first. India gained all of their 5 matches on this match whereas batting first so a choice got here as a shock for the followers. However Indian bowlers continued their wealthy type with one other spectacular show.
The star pacer Raj Limbani eliminated Steve Stolk within the fifth over to provide India a breakthrough after which clean-bowled star batter David Teeger on a duck to place South Africa underneath stress. However the in-form Pretorius and no.4 Seletswane saved the Proteas alive within the recreation with spectacular however affected person gameplay.
Pretorius and Seletswane added 72 runs for the third wicket however took 131 balls. Each gamers registered fifties with Pretorius smashing his third consecutive half-century within the match. Nevertheless, late cameos from Tristan Luus who smashed 23* off 12 and 24 runs from captain Juan James boosted South Africa to 244/7 in 50 overs.
South AfricaPlaying XI: Lhuan-dre Pretorius (wk), Steve Stolk, David Teeger, Richard Seletswane, Dewan Marais, Juan James (c), Oliver Whitehead, Riley Norton, Tristan Luus, Nqobani Mokoena, Kwena Maphaka
India Taking part in XI: Adarsh Singh, Arshin Kulkarni, Musheer Khan, Uday Saharan (c), Priyanshu Moliya, Sachin Dhas, Aravelly Avanish (wk), Murugan Abhishek, Raj Limbani, Naman Tiwari, Saumy Pandey
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