U19 World Cup 2024: Team India defeated New Zealand and registered its fourth consecutive win

Indian team’s excellent performance continues in the Under-19 World Cup. Team India, riding on the winning chariot, defeated New Zealand by 214 runs and entered the semi-finals. The Indian team is now just a few steps away from the title. The Indian team showed a brilliant game and defeated New Zealand by a huge margin. In this match, Musheer Khan played the match-winning innings for India.

He scored a blazing century in 131 balls. New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first. Opener Arshin Kulkarni gave a great start to the Indian team by scoring a half-century of 52 runs. India got the first blow in the form of Adarsh Singh, who scored 9 runs. Got out on personal score of . Musheer Khan, who came to bat at number three, scored a century of 131 runs in 126 balls with the help of 13 fours and three sixes.

Apart from this, captain Uday Saharan scored 34 runs in 57 balls. India scored 295 runs at the loss of 8 wickets. New Zealand’s Mason Clarke took 4 wickets for 62 runs in a spell of 8 overs. Oliver Tewatia, Jack Cumming, Ewald and Ryan got 1 wicket each.

In the same match, the Indian bowlers became a problem for the Kiwi team while chasing the target and fast bowler Raj Limbani took two wickets. James and Snehit Reddy were dismissed on the score of zero. Captain Oscar Jackson scored the maximum 19 runs for New Zealand. Apart from this, James Nelson, Jack Cumming and Oliver Tewatia played innings of 10, 16 and 12 runs respectively.