And that’s the end of the Tigers. A lot of hopes and dreams were crushed today as India completed a comprehensive win over their neighbouring country. With this win, India are one step closer to win the U19 World Cup as they are now in the semi-finals.

After winning the toss, India decided to bat first. They lost their first wicket after 3.3 overs when Manjot Kalra was snapped up by Robiul Haque. Shubham Gll came in next and formed a great partnership with the highly-rated Prithvi Shaw.

However, Shaw lost his wicket while batting at 40. Harvik Desai came next and, along with Gill, took the Indian score to 176 when Desai had to depart for 34. Meanwhile, Gil was still playing beautifully and ended up with 86 runs from 95 balls before returning to the pavilion.

A well-paced 50 from Abhishek Sharma in the middle-order helped the Indians reach 265 in 49.2 overs, which was a decent score on the track.

In the bowling department, the Tigers were well led by Qazi Onik’s 3 for 48 runs from 10 overs. Nayeem Hasan and Saif Hassan took a brace each while Robiul Haque and Hasan Mahmud took one wicket each.

In response, the youngsters from Bangladesh did get good starts, but were too slow in their approach—putting them on the backfoot from the very beginning. Pinak Ghosh, for instance, scored 43, but took 75 balls in doing so.

This over-cautious approach was followed by every other batsmen that scored over 10 runs—except for tailender Robiul Haque, who was unbeaten at 14 from 9 balls—as none of them had a strike-rate of 60 or more.

Apart from Pinak, no other batsmen could manage to score 20 runs and Bangladesh kept stuttering for the whole of the match, ending with 134 runs on the board after 42.1 overs.

Kamlesh Nagarkoti was the pick of the bowlers as he took 3 wickets while conceding only 18 runs from 7.1 overs. Abhishek Sharma and Shivam Mahi took two wickets each while Anukul Roy picked a scalp to complete an all-round victory over the Tigers.

With this win, the Tigers are out of the U19 World Cup, while India are in the semi-final against Pakistan.

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