ICC Under-19 World Cup: Indian team led by Unmukt Chand lifts U-19 cup

The final Under-19 World Cup match was played at Tony Ireland stadium, Townsville Australia on Sunday, August 26.

This is the third time India’s U-19 team won the World Cup. Previously, it had lifted the Cup in 2000 and 2008.

Chand’s unbeaten century in partnership with Smit Patel -- who scored an unbeaten 62 runs -- helped India win the finals comfortably. Together, Chand and Patel scored130 runs in their unbroken partnership to take India’s total to 227 with six wickets and 14 balls to spare.

Chand was declared Man of the Match in the India-Australia U-19 World Cup finals.

India won the toss and elected to field first.

Australia set a target of 225 runs with its first innings. Australian William Bosisto had the highest score in the team – an unbeaten 82 runs off 120 balls.

But right-arm medium pacer Sandeep Sharma kept the Australian score low by taking four wickets with his bowling performance.

Sharma’s bowling statistics were the most impressive among the Indian U-19 bowlers. He delivered a total of 10 overs with 2 maidens and had an economy rate of 5.40.

Among the Indian batsmen, opener Prashant Chopra was knocked out in the 7th ball but Chand who opened India’s innings with Chopra was unbeaten until the end.

Chand scored his century in 126-balls and delivered 5 smashing sixes and 7 fours. He delivered another six in his 111 runs. Patel scored 62 runs off 82 deliveries

Here is the total scorecard for ICC Under-19 World Cup 2012:

Team Australia: (225/8 in 50 overs)

Batsman	Status	Runs	Balls
Cameron Bancroft	lbw b Sandeep Sharma	2	14
Jimmy Peirson	b Sandeep Sharma	0	2
Meyrick Buchanan	c Patel b Ravikant Singh	12	26
Kurtis Patterson	b Aparajith	16	22
William Bosisto*	not out	87	120
Travis Head	run out (Harmeet/Aparajith)	37	56
Ashton Turner	c Chand b Sharma	43	50
Alex Gregory	c Nath b Sharma	4	5
Joel Paris	run out (Vihari/Ravikant)	0	1
Gurinder Sandhu*	not out	10	6
Extras (b 1, lb 5, w 6, nb 2)		14

                                

 Team India (227/4 in 47.4 overs) 

Batsman	Status	Runs	Balls
Prashant Chopra	c Peirson b Steketee	0	7
Unmukt Chand*	not out	111	130
Baba Aparajith	c Turner b Sandhu	33	38
Hanuma Vihari	c&b Turner	4	13
Vijay Zol	c Peirson b Paris	1	14
Smit Patel*	not out	62	84
Extras (lb 5, w 11)		18

 Indian bowling scorecard:

Bowling	Overs	Maiden	Runs	Wickets	Economy
Sandeep Sharma	10	2	54	4	5.40 (1w)
Ravikant Singh	9	0	41	1	4.55 (2nb, 1w)
Baba Aparajith	10	0	31	1	3.10
Harmeet Singh	10	1	36	0	3.60(1w)
Kamal Passi	9	0	44	0	4.88 (3w)
Unmukt Chand	2	0	13	0	6.50

 *Not out