India U19 vs Bangladesh U19, 7th Match: The Indian team has achieved its second consecutive victory in the Under-19 World Cup 2026. In the 7th match of the World Cup, the Indian team has won by defeating Bangladesh by 18 runs in a rain-interrupted match. Earlier, the Indian team had won by defeating USA. Vihaan Malhotra was given the Man of the Match award for his excellent bowling.

In the match played at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo, Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, the Indian team had a very bad start. India lost 2 wickets on the score of 12. Ayush Mhatre was out after scoring 6 runs. On the very next ball, Vedant Trivedi returned to the pavilion without scoring. After that Vihaan Malhotra also got out after scoring 7 runs. After losing three wickets early, Vaibhav Suryavanshi got the support of Abhigyan Kundu.

Suryavanshi and Kundu took over

Both of them made a partnership of 62 runs for the fourth wicket and took the score beyond 100. Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 72 runs in 67 balls and was out on the score of 115. Abhigyan Kundu remained at one end and completed his half-century. Harvansh was out after scoring 2 runs. After that Kanishk quickly scored 28 runs. Abhigyan Kundu was out on a personal score of 80. The Indian team scored 238 runs after losing all the wickets. Al Fahad bowled brilliantly for Bangladesh and took 5 wickets. Whereas Iqbal Hussain Emon took 2 wickets and Hakim Tamim took 2 wickets.

In reply, Bangladesh, which set out to chase this target, also did not have a good start. Javed Abrar was out after scoring 5 runs. After that, Hakim Tamim and Rifat Baig made a partnership of 56 runs for the second wicket. Rifat was out after scoring 37 runs. After that, the game stopped once again due to water at the score of 92.

A flurry of wickets after the rain

When the game started, Bangladesh got the target of 165 runs in 29 overs. Kalam Siddiqui was out after scoring 15 runs. After that Sheikh Pavez walked out after scoring 7 runs. There was a flurry of wickets from here. Hakim Tamim was also out after scoring 51 runs. From here, more problems increased for Bangladesh. The fourth wicket had fallen at 124. After that Bangladesh team was all out for just 146 runs. India won by 18 runs by taking 6 wickets for 22 runs. Vihaan Malhotra took 4 wickets while bowling for the Indian team. Khilan Patel took 2 wickets, Kanishk Chauhan took 1 wicket, Henil Patel took 1 wicket and Deepesh took 1 wicket.