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ICC U-19 World Cup 2018: India wallop Zimbabwe by 10 wickets

Anukul Roy, Shubam Gill and Harvik Desai do star turn as India beat Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in the ICC U19 World Cup

By Unnikrishnan
Anukul Roy

Mount Maunganui, January 19: India finished their engagements in Group B of the ICC Under-19 World Cup 2018 with a thumping 10-wicket win over Zimbabwe here on Friday (January 19).

Batting by choice, Zimbabwe did not have much answers to the guile of Indian bowlers, especially against left-arm spinner Anukul Roy. Roy's four-wicket haul (4-20) in 7.1 overs conceding 20 runs broke the Africans as they were skittled out for 154 in 48.4 overs.

ICC U-19 WC: India spinner Anukul Roy was reluctant to bowl in his early daysICC U-19 WC: India spinner Anukul Roy was reluctant to bowl in his early days

That total was never going to test the Indians, packed with heavy artillery. They romped home in just 21.4 overs without losing a wicket. Openers Harvik Desai (56, 73b, 8x4, 1x6) and Shubman Gill (90, 59b, 14x4, 1x6) made light work of the target.

Gill later was adjudged man of the match for his quality knock.

Zimbabwe tried as many as eight bowlers in their effort to break the partnership and make a match of it but none of them were effective against the Indians.

But the Indian bowlers wrote a different story. Opener Wesley Madhevere (30), Milton Shumba (36) and captain Liam Roche (31) got starts but failed to keep away the nagging Indian bowlers.

Shumba and Roche added 49 runs for the fourth wicket and just as the alliance taking a definite shape, Roy stepped in and dismissed Shumba. He then jettisoned Roche and Robert Chimhinya in the space of seven runs as Zimbabwe slid to 117 for six - a position from which they never recovered.

Roy had taken five wickets (5-14) against Papua New Guinea in the last match and now the Jharkhand lad has 10 wickets from three matches to sit on top of the list of bowlers in this tournament.

Story first published: Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 12:08 [IST]
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