India 316/5 on the first day of Under-19 Test: Fifty from 4 batsmen, Nitya Pandya scored 94 runs; Hoekstra took 2 wickets from Australia.

India Under-19 won the first test against Australia by 2 wickets.

Under-19 Test is being played between India and Australia in Chennai. On the first day of the match on Monday, India scored 316 runs after losing 5 wickets. 4 batsmen from the team scored fifties, Nitya Pandya was just 6 runs away from scoring a century and was out after scoring 94 runs.

Harry Hoekstra took 2 wickets from Australia. Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who scored a century in the first Youth Test, could score only 3 runs in the first innings of the second match. The first 4-day Test between the two teams was won by India by 2 wickets. The second day’s play will begin at 9:30 am tomorrow at the Chepauk Stadium in Chennai.

India’s bad start India Under-19 team, who came to bat first after winning the toss at Chepauk Stadium, had a bad start. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was out after scoring only 3 runs in 4 balls. Opener Vihaan Malhotra then made a fifty partnership with Nitya, but he too was out after scoring 10 runs in 75 balls.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who scored a century in the first Test, could score only 3 runs in the first innings of the second Test.

Nitya-Kartikeya made century partnership After losing 2 wickets at the score of 60 runs, Nitya Pandya and KP Karthikeya took over the innings from India. Both of them took the score beyond 100 runs and made the Kangaroo bowlers yearn for wickets. During this time both of them also completed their respective fifties. Nitya was out after scoring 94 runs and his partnership of 112 runs with Karthikeya was also broken. Karthikeya was also out after scoring 71 runs. India lost 4 wickets on the score of 185 runs.

Australia made India lose 4 wickets within 200 runs.

Captain Patwardhan and Nikhal also got fifty. After 4 wickets fell within 200 runs, captain Soham Patwardhan took over the innings with Nikhil Kumar. Both of them made a century partnership and took the team’s score close to 300 runs. Shortly before the end of the day’s play, Nikhil was out after scoring 61 runs.

Till the end of the day’s play, Soham remained not out after scoring 61 runs and wicketkeeper Harvansh Pangalia remained not out after scoring 7 runs. Harry Hoekstra took 2 wickets from Australia. Ollie Patterson, Christian Hove and Vishwa Ramkumar got 1-1 success.

Nikhil Kumar was out after scoring 61 runs.

India won the Under-19 ODI series 3-0 Before the Test series, an ODI series was also played between the two Under-19 teams. After winning the first two matches in a one-sided fashion by 7 and 9 wickets, India won the third ODI by a close margin of 7 runs. India again won the first unofficial test in Chennai by 2 wickets, now the team is maintaining a strong position in the second test also.