England won by 1 wicket in the second Youth ODI match played between India Under-19 team and England Under-19 team (Ind-19 Vs Eng-U19 Youth ODI 2025). Vaibhav Suryavanshi played a good innings of 45 runs, but it was not enough to win. At the same time, the son of former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff played an important innings of 39 runs in this match.
The Indian Under -19 team, batting first, gave England a target of 291 runs. The Indian innings did not start well, captain Ayush Mhatre was dismissed for zero. But after this Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishka Chauhan and Rahul Kumar batted well. However, none of these half -centuries could be completed.
Vaibhav scored 45 runs, Vihaan scored 49, Kanishka 45 and Rahul scored 47 runs. The Indian innings ended in 49 overs, the team scored 290 runs while batting first. M French took the most wickets for England, they made 4 batsmen their victims. Jack Home and Alex Green took 3-3 wickets. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was caught by Jack Home.
England won by 1 wicket
England’s innings did not start well. The first wicket fell as Ben Dykins (7). After this, Isak Mohammad was dismissed for 11 and Ben Mess 27, who came at number three. After this, Andrew Flintoff’s son played an important innings and handled the innings. He scored 39 runs in 68 balls. Thoms Rayu, the hero of victory, who scored a century while batting at number five. He scored 131 runs in 89 balls, when he was out in the 40th over, England was 60 runs away from the win.
The match was exciting
England needed 12 runs to win in the last 2 overs, while India had to take only 1 wicket. In the 49th over, French and Marghan scored 5 runs, England won by scoring 7 runs in the first 3 balls of the final over. India’s luck was bad, they could not get the last wicket. Amberish took the most wickets for India, he dismissed 4 batsmen. Henil Patel and Yudhjit Guha took 2–2 wickets.