India vs Pakistan, U19 World Cup 2026: IND beat PAK by 58 runs, Ayush Mhatre’s boys qualify for semis

The required rate for them to knock India out is 8.38 per over and they are currently going at 5.60, which is far, far from what is required. Zahoor managed to hit a four off Henil second last ball of the 10th over, Pakistan need far more than that every over now. He is on 28 off 26, Usman on 18 off 23.

Pakistan 56/1 in 10 overs

Pakistan need 211 runs in 156 balls to qualify for the semifinals. Usman Khan with fours off Ambrish's fifth and sixth balls of the seventh over. He is on nine off nine balls, Hamza Zahooron 23 off 22 balls.

Sameer Minhas, the man whose record innings is what helped Pakistan blow India out of the park a couple of months ago in the U19 Asia Cup final, hit the first four of the innings off Ambrish third ball. It was short and wide and Minhas cut it away powerfully to the off side.

Pakistan 5/0 in 1 over

Well, in any normal situation, Pakistan would be feeling pretty good at where the match is at the moment but not today. Kanishk Chouhan and Khilan Patel have come in and taken the bull by the horns here. Chouhan is on 28 off 25 balls, Patel on 14 off 11.

India 234/7 in 48 overs

Ambrish pumps the last ball of that 43rd over from Ahmed Hussain right over the bowler for four. India's hopes of putting this well and truly beyond Pakistan now rests on him. He is on 28 off 35.

India 197/6 in 43 overs

Trivedi now on 61 in 88 balls, Ambrish is at the other end now and he is on 13 in 17 balls. Baloch got the last ball of the 37th to go off Trivedi's outside edge and the ball went in the air, just centimetres out of reach for second slip. The batters ran two there.

A maiden there from Sayyam, who bowled his eighth over. Kundu kept pinned to the crease. This does look like the kind of wicket where chasing down down even scores of 240-250 looks trickyu, let alone chasing it down in about 32 overs which is what Pakistan would need to do if India get there.

Kundu on 16 off 26 balls, Trivedi on 52 off 76 balls.

India's crisis man Abhigyan Kundu is in the middle while Vedant Trivedi has moved to 42 in 68. If these two don't have a big partnership here, India's chances of making it to the semi-final will take a huge blow here. Pakistan had very low odds of doing it today but thus far, they have been absolutely on the money.

Trivedi is on 42 off 68, Kundu on five off nine.

India 123/4 in 28 overs

The partnership between these two is now on 53 in 80 balls. Vihaan Malhotra has done this earlier as well, remember, his brilliant century against Zimbabwe came after he walked in with India in a bit of a shaky situation. Vedant Trivedi hasn't really been able to get any meaningful runs in this tournament thus far, what an occassion to get a big score now.

Trivedi is on 26 off 42, Malhotra on 20 off 36.

India 99/3 in 21 overs

Vedant Trivedi and Vihaan Malhotra bring some calm into the Indian innings. However, the danger remains very alive for India. Seyam bowled his sixth over in the 12th and Trivedi managed to pull the third ball for a six. But that is all as far as boundaries go for India since they lost three quick wickets. They won't mind it one bit though, the idea is to make sure Pakistan have as steep a chase as possible today.

What in the world is going in here! Mhatre with a very clear edge behind to the wicketkeeper, he starts walking off himself but the umpire asks him to wait. Turns out, Sayyam's front foot was very much on the borderline but it is good in the end. Two gigantic wickets in the same over for Sayyam!

Mhatre c Hamza Zahoor b Mohammad Sayyam 0 (2)

India 47/2 in 8 overs

Oh that just horrendous cricket all-round! Sayyam with a short one outside off third ball of the eighth over, Sooryavanshi goes for the hook. It takes a top edge the ball goes a 1000 miles high into the blue sky. It is only coming down to around square leg and Hufaiza positions himself to take, never surely enough. He moves around, trying to lock in on the ball and misses it. The wicketkeeper is almost there for the catch as well and that means a fielder had to run in at the striker's end to collect the ball when it is thrown there because Sooryavanshi had been caught watching the ball standing in the middle of the pitch. Sooryavanshi gave up but the fielder at the stumps fails to collect it. Sooryavanshi with the biggest dollop of a luck a batter could ever have in a cricket match.

Well Pakistan have thus far done excellently well in the field but their bowlers haven't quite found their feet. Mohammad Sayyam has taken the other new ball, Sooryavanshi nails the drive second ball of the fourth over and captain Farhan Yousaf makes sure its a dot with a fantastic stop at mid-off. However, both Sayyam and Ali Raza have bowled a couple of dollies that both George and Suryavanshi have punished.

Aaron George is on strike, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is at the other end. Ali Raza has the ball in his hands for Pakistan.

"The weather conditions, really good," say Rohan Gavaskar and Ed Rainsford. "A high of 28, a low of 17, and very little chance of rain. We are on pitch number six for this game. The curators had to work hard to keep this fresh. A bit of context now is that 213 by England defended, 261 chased down by Sri Lanka, then India hit 350. So there's runs to be had here. I'd say make use of the new ball because it will come on nicely and it gets a little bit slower. And then at the back end, really go after the bowling, but wickets in hand are crucial. The surface visually looks a good one. but what's underneath there is another question. I think it's a little bit dry. You need to have that little bit of acumen and insight on this pitch. Work hard, runs to be had, seamers in the game, and as the game progresses, maybe just maybe you might see a little bit of spin."

India: Aaron George, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ayush Mhatre(c), Vihaan Malhotra, Abhigyan Kundu(w), Vedant Trivedi, RS Ambrish, Kanishk Chouhan, Khilan Patel, Henil Patel, Deepesh Devendran

Pakistan: Hamza Zahoor(w), Sameer Minhas, Usman Khan, Ahmed Hussain, Farhan Yousaf(c), Huzaifa Ahsan, Ali Hassan Baloch, Abdul Subhan, Momin Qamar, Mohammad Sayyam, Ali Raza

India have won every game they have played thus far this tournament and are the only side to have scored more than 300 in a match in Bulawayo. And yet, there are no Indians anywhere near the top 5, or indeed even the top 10, in the run scorers' list. India's highest scorer thus far is Abhigyan Kundu who has scored 183 runs in four matches with two half-centuries. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is second with 166 runs in four matches at an eye-watering strike rate of 133.87.

Hamza Zahoor(w), Sameer Minhas, Usman Khan, Farhan Yousaf(c), Ahmed Hussain, Huzaifa Ahsan, Mohammad Shayan, Abdul Subhan, Momin Qamar, Mohammad Sayyam, Ali Raza, Umar Zaib, Ali Hassan Baloch, Daniyal Ali Khan, Niqab Shafiq

Well, there could be no bigger fixture in world cricket anyhow, and somehow the stakes are only amped up by the fact that only one of India and Pakistan can make it to the semi-finals today. These aren't the senior teams, they are only kids on both sides and yet, the pressure that they will feel will be no less than what their seniors do every time they take the field. Last time India and Pakistan met in a men's U19 ODI was in the final of the U19 Asia Cup late last year. Pakistan ran roughshod over India, beating them by 191 runs to win the title. India have been utterly dominant throughout this World Cup though, will Pakistan manage to stop this juggernaut again? Stay tuned for more updates.