19 U-19 World Cup: India play in the COVID quarter-finals after beating Ireland

Four-time world champion and reigning champion ICC U-19 entered the quarter-finals of the U-19 World Cup Super League after beating Ireland by a staggering 174 runs, here in a league match, and barely made it to the XI.

India started their campaign with a victory, winning 45 runs in South Africa last Saturday and winning so much on Wednesday is significant, as the team put only 11 players available after testing having to isolate six members of that team. COVID-19 positive.

Placed at the picturesque Brian Lara Stadium, India rode Harnoor Singh’s 88th lap for the first time and completed well with a 79-run-a-ball from starting member Angkrish Raghuvanshi, five to take out a 307 challenge.

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The team coached by Hrishikesh Kanitkar gathered the opposition for a comfortable 393 overs 39 victory.

Patron Yash Dhull and his deputy Sheikh Rasheed, who were positive among those isolated, led Nishant Sindhu to the side.

Harnoor and Angriksh on the left made a 164-run run to the top, defending the Indian bowlers completely decently.

Harnoor hit 12 fours in a 101-ball shot, and Angrich found 10 limits and two sixes.

Patrons Nishant Sindhu (36 34-36) and Raj Bawa (42 64-42) shared the 64th place for the third wicket, ensuring that the platform created by the openers was used well to establish a high score.

India seemed to be lacking enough firepower in the end, when the big blows dried up, Rajvardhan Hangargekar hit five sixes, including the maximum cap at the last end, India took 17 balls and 39 runs in a fierce cameo undefeated cameo. Exceeded the 300 run mark.

Harnoor, who was in good form, guided the ball elegantly. If he got up in the middle and on his leg, the left-hander from Jalandhar did great. Harnoor took the outside of the cover area and marked the board well.

On the contrary, Angriksh chose to make the ball muscles. He cut, pulled and also drove aggressively as one of the Irish pelota players could not disturb the Indian openers.

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The 16-year-old Delhi man Matthew Humphreys (1/69) pulled his left arm spinner from the center to a six-yard pass to raise his half-century. He was the same ball that later caught his leg.

Angkrish was ruled out by spinner Jamie Forbes (1/38).

After 308, Ireland were measuring up to 17 and three after losing two of the starting Liam Doherty (7), David Vincent (8) and Jack Dickson (0) cheaply to the top seven.

Ireland never recovered from the first blows as Garv Sangwan (2/23) right-footed midfielder sent back Tim Tector (15) pattern over the 15th to make way for four of the 36 from the side.

Goalkeeper Joshua Cox tried his best to narrow the score with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the center, but home side’s keeper Joshua Cox made the save.

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Sangwan hit again, this time removing Cox, who caught Dinesh Ban on the 21st as Ireland lost half of their lead to 66.

Scott Macbeth (32) only delayed the essentials, but from now on it was only a matter of time and India had only 133 entries from Ireland, with the left arm Aneeshwar Gautam (2/11) and the orthodox Kaushal Tambe (2/11) with the left rotator. 2/8) clean the lower middle order and the ends of the tail.

As for India, Sangwan, Gautam and Tambe picked two wickets, and spinners Rajvardhan Hangargekar (1/17), Ravi Kumar (1/11) and Vicky Ostwal (1/22) also played perfectly.

India should have enough players for the final Group B match against Uganda on Saturday, in addition to Dhull and Rasheed, Aaradhya Yadav, Vasu Vats, Manav Parakh and Siddharth Yadav also tested positive for the virus.