Can Junior tigers break India jinx in tomorrow final?
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|| CF Correspondent ||
After the historic win over New Zealand in the semifinal, Bangladesh under 19 cricketers are one step away from bringing home their maiden ICC Under-19 World trophy but to achieve they have to break Bangladesh’s dreaded trend of losing knock-out matches against India.
Over the last few years, Bangladesh has lost to India in all the major multi-team events, were from winning position Bangladesh has lost to India in the end.
The cycle began in the 2015 ICC World Cup, where Bangladesh lost their first-ever World Cup quarter-final against India after a controversial no-ball call shifted the momentum of the match against the Tigers.
In the following year Bangladesh national team has suffered two heartbreak losses to India in T-20 competition. The first being at in the Asia cup final in March
and the second coming in a group-phase match of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in Bangalore, where Bangladesh failed to score two-run off the last three balls.
In June 2017
Bangladesh has played they maiden champion trophy semi-final at the ICC Champions Trophy in England but india crushed Bangladesh at the event to end their of reaching the final.
The next year, the Tigers suffered two defeats in finals against the neighboring rivals, first in the Nidahas Trophy in Sri Lanka, where a last ball six from Dinesh Karthik stunned Bangladesh and the second coming in the Asia Cup in Dubai, where India eked out a narrow three-wicket win.
The junior team also suffered the same fate of their seniors last year, losing to their Indian counterparts in a tri-nation final in England in August and then losing the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup final to the familiar foes in Sri Lanka in September.
The Under-19 boys took the day off on Saturday to recharge from their lengthy tour and to mentally prepare themselves for the final show-down against India.
