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Vaibhav Suryavanshi was astatine his imperious champion portion smashing a 171 disconnected 95 balls, powering India to a mammoth 234-run triumph implicit hosts UAE successful the inaugural lucifer of the U19 Asia Cup present connected Friday.
The 14-year-old from Samastipur, Bihar, unleashed a stunning show of batting, hitting 14 sixes — the astir by immoderate batter successful a azygous innings successful the U19 level — en-route to his breathtaking innings.
Half-centuries from Vihaan Malhotra (69) and Aaron George (69) further bolstered India's complaint arsenic they piled up 433 for 6 successful 50 overs. The 400-plus full is India's highest-ever successful U19 ODIs and is the highest successful the U-19 Asia Cup's history.
In reply, UAE were ne'er successful the contention contempt warring fifties from Prithvi Madhu (50) and Uddish Suri (78 not out), arsenic they could lone negociate 199/7 successful their allotted 50 overs.
Suryavanshi's blistering knock, studded with 9 boundaries, is present the second-highest people by an Indian successful younker ODIs, down Ambati Rayudu's unbeaten 177 against England successful 2002 and the ninth-highest people by a batter successful a men's U19 ODI.
Sent into bat, the young opener looked a people isolated arsenic helium pummelled the UAE bowlers into submission, racing to his 50 disconnected conscionable 30 balls and bringing up his 100 successful lone 56 deliveries.
He past shared a 212-run basal with George to wholly flatten the hosts' attack. His fiery innings yet came to an extremity successful the 33rd implicit erstwhile helium was bowled by spinner Suri.
After his dismissal, the middle-order maintained the tempo, with Vedant Trivedi (38), Abhigyan Kundu (32 not out) and Kanishk Chouhan (28) keeping the runs flowing to instrumentality India past the coveted 400-run mark.
Faced with a daunting target, UAE mislaid 2 wickets wrong the archetypal 4 overs, earlier the speedy dismissals of Muhammad Rayan, Ayaan Misbah and Ahmed Khudadad successful the abstraction of 9 balls near them tottering astatine 48 for 5, efficaciously ending the chase.
Suri and Madhu added 85 runs to apprehension the slide, but the harm had agelong been done.
Brief Score: India 433 for 6 successful 50 overs (Vaibhav Suryavanshi 171, Vihaan Malhotra 69, Aaron George 69; Yug Sharma 2/75.
UAE 199 for 7 successful 50 overs (Uddish Suri 78 not out, Prithvi Madhu 50; Deepesh Devendran 2/21)
