U19 Asia Cup: Azan century helps Pakistan beat India by 8 wickets

Azan Awais century and fifties from Shahzaib Khan and Saad Baig helped Pakistan chase down 260 runs with eight wickets in hand within the match 5 of the U19 Asia Cup performed in Dubai on Sunday.

Pakistan continues on prime of the group A factors desk with two wins in a row whereas India suffered its first defeat in two video games to this point.

Off-spinner Murugan Abishek was the only wicket-taker for India (2/55) because the Pakistan batters had been comfortable at chasing the 260-run goal regardless of dropping opener Shamyl Husain early.

Shahzaib (63) and Azan stitched a 110-run stand for the second wicket in 140 balls to setup the chase whereas an unbeaten stand between captain Saad (68) and the centurion took the workforce previous the end line.

Earlier, put into bat, India misplaced opener Arshin Kulkarni contained in the PowerPlay after his run-a-ball 24 and shortly misplaced Rudra Patel cheaply.

Adarsh Singh (62) and Uday Saharan (60) added 93 runs for the third wicket to maintain the scoreboard ticking however as soon as India misplaced the previous. It by no means recovered regardless of 48-run stand between Uday and Sachin Dhas for the sixth wicket and stored dropping wickets at common intervals.

Mohammad Zeeshan’s 4 wicket helped Pakistan prohibit India to 259/9.