The Indian Under-19 team won the second Youth Test against Australia by seven wickets on Wednesday (October 8). With this, India has won the two-match Youth Test series 2-0. This match played in Mackay was the shortest Youth Test ever, which was completed in just 886 balls (147.4 overs). Earlier, the record for the shortest Youth Test was in the name of the West Indies Under-19 team. Who defeated the Pakistan Under-19 team in Faisalabad in 1995 by five wickets in 992 balls (165.2 overs). At that time, Shahid Afridi led the Pakistan team in the match.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat first. But half the team returned to the pavilion in the first 10 overs. Wicketkeeper Alex Lee Young batted brilliantly, but the entire team was dismissed for 135 runs in 43.3 overs. While Hanil and Khilan Patel took three wickets each for India. In the first innings of India, captain Ayush Mhatre and young batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi could not perform well. In which no Indian batter could cross 30 runs, but five batters scored more than 20 runs.
Australia had a bad start in the second innings. In which two batters were dismissed without opening their account. In which Young tried to maintain the score, but could only score 38 runs. The team was all out for 116 runs. While Vihan Malhotra (21 runs, 21 balls), Vedant Trivedi (33 runs, 35 balls) and Rahul Kumar (13 runs, 14 balls) achieved the target. India won in just 12.2 overs and took the series 2-0.
