Women’s U19 Asia Cup Final: India’s Under-19 team won the title of the inaugural edition of the Women’s Under-19 Asia Cup by defeating Bangladesh Under-19 by 41 runs. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday, thanks to Gongadi Trisha’s brilliant half-century and excellent performance with the ball.
India’s Gongadi Trisha Shines in the Final
In the final match played at Bayumas Oval in Kuala Lumpur, India batted first and scored 117 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.
Chasing this score, Bangladesh’s team collapsed for 76 runs and India won the match by 41 runs. Gongadi Trisha received the Player of the Match award for her brilliant batting. In this match, the Indian team performed brilliantly in all three departments.
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Gongadi Trisha was the only batsman to cross the 20-run mark for Team India, who came out to bat first after losing the toss. This opening batsman played a brilliant innings of 52 runs in 47 balls with the help of 5 fours and 2 towering sixes. Five batsmen of the team could not reach a double-digit score. Farzana Ismin took the maximum of 4 wickets for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Struggles as India Dominates with Ball
The Bangladesh team did not have a good start while chasing the target of 118 runs. How bad the team’s batting was can be gauged from the fact that Juaria Firdaus was the highest scorer with 22 runs and apart from her, only Fahmida Choya (18) was the only batsman who managed to cross the double-digit mark.
9 batsmen of the Bangladesh team were out on single-digit score. Ayushi Shukla bowled brilliantly for India and took 3 wickets. This tournament was very good for India. In the group stage, Team India defeated arch-rival Pakistan badly, while the match against Nepal was washed out due to rain. After this, in the Super-4, India defeated Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to make it to the title match.
