The India U-19 crew are presently in England, and are set to face their English counterparts in a five-match Youth ODI and two Youth Assessments collection, scheduled to begin from June 27. On Tuesday, the guests confronted an invitational XI in a 50-over warm-up contest at Loughborough.
The hosts received the toss and opted to subject. IPL 2025 stars Ayush Mhatre and Vaibhav Suryavanshi opened the innings for the guests, however flopped, managing solely 18 runs between them. Mhatre misplaced his wicket within the second over and Suryavanshi was dismissed within the fifth.
Harvansh Singh Pangalia’s blistering knock
Quickly, the guests slipped to 91/5 within the thirteenth over, earlier than Kanishk Chouhan (79) and Rahul Kumar (73) got here to their rescue, including 140 runs in 112 balls. With India at 251/7 within the thirty sixth over, Harvansh Singh Pangalia got here to bat, becoming a member of RS Ambrish. The pair added 126 runs, with Ambrish exhibiting some good pictures, as he registered 72 off 47 balls.Â
On his departure, Pangalia was at 47 off 33 balls, and bagged his half-century with a boundary off the subsequent ball he acquired.
Within the final three overs of the innings, the 18-year-old took on the English bowlers, and commenced the forty eighth over with consecutive sixes off Manny Lumsden, after which the bowler additionally bagged two back-to-back no-balls.Â
Pangalia additionally slammed Matthew Firbank for a six within the subsequent over, after which within the remaining over, he hammered Lumsden for a 4, and a streak of three sixes to finish the innings. The final six noticed him get his ton, off solely 52 balls, and his second fifty got here off 18 deliveries, with India additionally ending at 442/9.
The younger tailender’s action-packed innings noticed him smack 9 sixes, and the leg-side boundary was his favorite. He’s a wicketkeeper-batter and likewise represents Saurashtra youth crew in home cricket. Final October, he acquired seven fours and 6 sixes in a youth match towards Australia, registering 117 runs.
Harvansh is from Gandhidham, a city in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch. His household is presently settled in Canada, the place his father drives a truck in Brampton.
