Antigua: The legendary teams of India and Australia will face each other in the semi-finals of the Under-19 World Cup today. India’s preparations were greatly hampered due to the Corona epidemic. There was no national camp or tournament in the last two years and recently the team came here only after playing the Asia Cup. After coming here, the team could barely gather 11 players against Ireland after several players found to be corona infect before the second match.
Captain Yash Dhul, Vice-Captain Sheikh Rashid, Aaradhya Yadav, Manav Parakh and Siddharth Yadav hit by the corona virus. All five could not play against Ireland and Uganda, after which the BCCI had to send alternate players. Six reserve players fielded against Uganda. The Indian team, however, defeated both Ireland and Uganda and then defeated Bangladesh in the quarter-finals. Now India has a strong team and Nishant Sindhu has also recovered from the infection.
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Today in front of India is a strong team like Australia
For the fourth time in a row: India today has a strong team like Australia which is among the contenders for the title. However, India’s morale must boosted by the fact that despite battling Corona, it has reached the last four by winning all the matches. India will play the semi-finals for the fourth time in a row. India has batsmen like Harnoor Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Raj Bawa apart from Dhul and Rashid. In the bowling, Ravi Kumar took three wickets for 14 runs in five overs against Bangladesh.
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Along with pacer Rajvardhan Hangargekar, spinners Vicky Ostwal and Kaushal Tambe, medium pacer Bawa will be eyeing it. On the other hand, two-time champions Australia defeated Pakistan in the quarter-finals. They have opener Tig Wealey who has done well so far. Against Pakistan he scored 97 off 71 balls and India will have to curb his bat. India defeated Australia in the practice match.
