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Australia's left-handed batter Will Malajczuk smashed the fastest period successful the past of the ICC U19 World Cup, disconnected conscionable 51 balls, to steer Australia to a convincing eight-wicket triumph implicit Japan successful Windhoek connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026).
Chasing 202, the opener scored fractional of his team's runs with a stunning 102 from 55 balls to unafraid Australia's 2nd triumph of their rubric defence and a spot successful the Super Sixes.
Having won the toss, Japan elected to bat and were led by the in-form Hugo Tani-Kelly, arsenic helium and Nihar Parmar added 58 for the 2nd wicket earlier the second was tally retired for 33.
Tani-Kelly, who made a period against Sri Lanka successful his side's opener, batted done the remainder of the innings for a sound of 79 not retired from 135 balls.
Naden Cooray made inroads successful the Japanese batting lineup to decorativeness with 3 for 31 from 10 overs.
Japan made 201 for 8 from their 50 overs, and Australia made a speedy commencement successful the pursuit arsenic Malajczuk and Nitesh Samuel enactment connected a 135-run concern for the archetypal wicket.
Malajczuk was the aggressor, making the fastest 50 successful U19 World Cup past with a half-century successful 23 balls, earlier breaking the grounds for the quickest ton, utilizing lone 51 balls to get to 3 figures.
He was yet caught successful the heavy for 102, having deed 12 fours and 5 sixes, to permission his broadside needing 67 runs from 34.3 overs.
Samuel carried his bat, making 60 not retired arsenic Australia sealed triumph with 20.5 overs to spare to permission Australia 2nd successful Group A, down Sri Lanka connected tally rate.
