Bangladesh U-19 team won the Asia Cup for the first time by defeating the United Arab Emirates in 2023. So this time the Junior Tigers participated in the tournament with the mission of retaining the title. Where the red-green representatives were completely successful. Bangladesh won the back-to-back title by defeating India in the final.
On Sunday (December 8), Bangladesh gave India an easy target of 199 runs when they came out to bat. In reply, India could score 139 runs in 35.1 overs. Bangladesh won by 59 runs.
Bangladesh did not start well after losing the toss and came out to bat. Opener Kalam Siddiqui returned to the dressing room after scoring just 1 run. Jawad Abrar accompanied him by scoring 20 runs off 65 balls.
Azizul Haque Tamim could not shine with the bat either. This Tiger captain returned after scoring only 16 runs. Shihab James continued to score runs along with Rizan. However, neither of them could score a fifty.
Shihab returned with 40 runs off 67 balls, Debashish Debao followed his lead with 1 run off 3 balls. Then, when Rizan was dismissed for 47 runs off 65 balls, Bangladesh were in trouble, losing 6 wickets for 155 runs. Al Fahad joined the wicket procession with 4 and 1 runs from Samiun Basir.
However, Farid Hasan continued to fight at one end. He was accompanied by Maruf Mridha. Farid fell into the trap of leg before four on the fourth ball in the 49th over. This wicketkeeper-batsman played a responsible innings of 39 runs off 49 balls.
When Iqbal (1) was dismissed on the first ball of the last over, Bangladesh got a fighting capital of 198 runs on Maruf Mridha's unbeaten 11 runs.
Hardik Raj, Yudhajit Guha and Chetan Sharma took two wickets each for India. In addition, Kiran Chormale, KP Karthikeya and Ayush Matre took one wicket each.
In reply, India did not have much of an advantage in the start of the batting. Opener Ayush was dismissed for one run by Fahad, Vaibhav Suryavanshi returned to the pavilion after scoring 9 runs off Maruf. Siddharth returned to the team with 44 runs. After that, India's scoreboard was 81 runs for 6 wickets with three consecutive catches by Eman. However, captain Mohammad Amman continued to play at the crease. India lost another wicket to Fahad to add 92 runs to the scoreboard.
Then Hardik became the captain's partner. As the runs continued to increase, the air of victory also began to blow in the Indian dressing room. Then Tiger Junior leader Tamim stopped the captain for 26 runs. He dismissed Amman, who was settling down in his first over. After that, India's innings was stopped at 139 runs without anyone else being able to build a partnership.