Sidumisile Mabena
Bongani Ndlovu, [email protected]
IT’S the big one on Sunday as Pakistan Under-19 take on India Under-19 in the Super Six match of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo.
Pakistan captain Farhan Yousaf elected to field first after winning the toss.
It is a sunny day in Bulawayo, with clear skies forecast for the whole day, with a high of 29 degrees Celsius — a perfect day for cricket.
Beyond the Super Six points on offer, this fixture carries heavy national pride and unmistakable bragging rights. India versus Pakistan is a rivalry that needs no selling, even at the Under-19 level, and the young cricketers will walk onto the Queens Sports Club turf aware that this is more than just another World Cup match.
For many, it is a chance to announce themselves on the world stage in a contest that has always carried history, emotion and expectation.
The teams are as follows:
India
1 Aaron George, 2 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 3 Ayush Mhatre (capt), 4 Vihaan Malhotra, 5 Abhigyan Kundu (wk), 6 Vedant Trivedi, 7 RS Ambrish, 8 Kanishk Chouhan, 9 Khilan Patel, 10 Henil Patel, 11 Deepesh Devendran
Pakistan
1 Hamza Zahoor (wk), 2 Sameer Minhas, 3 Usman Khan, 4 Ahmed Hussain, 5 Farhan Yousaf (capt), 6 Huzaifa Ahsan, 7 Ali Hassan Baloch, 8 Abdul Subhan, 9 Momin Qamar, 10 Mohammad Sayyam, 11 Ali Raza.
Online Reporter