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Batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was among the 3 Indians named successful the Team of the Tournament for the ICC Under-19 World Cup connected Sunday (February 8, 2026).
The 14-year-old Sooryavanshi, who scored a majestic 175 from 80 balls successful the last against England and was subsequently crowned Player of the Tournament, is joined by compatriots Kanishk Chouhan and Henil Patel successful the 12-member team. India won the rubric for a grounds extending sixth time.
Chouhan made consistently invaluable contributions with bat and ball, portion Patel’s 11 wickets included a superb spell of 5 for 16 against the USA.
Runners-up England are besides represented by 3 players, with Thomas Rew named arsenic the skipper and wicketkeeper.
Rew scored 330 runs astatine an mean of precisely 66, including a match-winning period successful the semi-final against Australia.
Manny Lumsden, who was the tournament’s apical wicket-taker with 16, and Ben Mayes, the competition’s starring run-scorer with 444, including 191 against Scotland, articulation Rew successful the team.
Mayes was 1 tally distant from equalling the all-time grounds for the highest idiosyncratic people astatine an U19 Men’s World Cup, which had been acceptable 4 days earlier by Sri Lanka’s Viran Chamuditha – who is besides selected.
Chamuditha’s trailblazing 192 came against Japan and included 26 fours and a six.
Afghanistan duo Faisal Khan Shinozada and Nooristani Omarzai are some chosen aft playing cardinal roles successful their country’s tally to the semi-finals.
Faisal finished the tourney with back-to-back centuries against Ireland and India, portion Nooristani took 14 wickets, with a champion of 5 for 9 against Tanzania.
Australia skipper Oliver Peake besides scored 2 centuries, reaching 3 figures against West Indies and successful a losing origin against England successful the past four, portion Pakistan’s Ali Raza and West Indies’ Vitel Lawes implicit the selection.
Raza took 13 wickets astatine 13.92 apiece, going astatine conscionable implicit 4 an over, portion Jamaican left-arm spinner Lawes took 10 scalps successful his 5 matches.
The enactment sheet was made up of Ian Bishop (Convenor), Lydia Greenway, Andy Flower, Telford Vice.
ICC U19 men’s World Cup Team of the Tournament: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (India), Viran Chamuditha (Sri Lanka), Faisal Khan Shinozada (Afghanistan), Thomas Rew [wk, capt] (England), Oliver Peake (Australia), Ben Mayes (England), Kanishk Chouhan (India), Nooristani Omarzai (Afghanistan), Vitel Lawes (West Indies), Ali Raza (Pakistan), Manny Lumsden (England), Henil Patel (India).
