The road to Harare begun for 10 more teams yesterday, with five warm-ups matches ahead of the ICC Under-19 Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continued to catch the eye with a superb 96 as India beat Scotland, while Tanzania were in excellent form ahead of their tournament debut while beating Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Co-hosts Zimbabwe were among six teams frustrated by wet weather, with three matches abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Super Sooryavanshi narrowly misses century as India impress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continued to set tongues wagging as he hit a blistering 50-ball 96 in India\u2019s emphatic 121-run win against Scotland, via DLS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 14-year-old scored 68 and 127 in a series against South Africa on the eve of this tournament and maintained that form with nine fours and seven sixes in a brilliant innings that set the platform for India to compile a high score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vihaan Malhotra (77), Aaron Varghese (61) and Abhigyan Kundu (55) also hit half-centuries as India scored 374 for eight from 50 overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wet weather meant Scotland faced a revised target of 234 from 24 overs, and they started well by reaching 59 for one. But they lost regular wickets from there, as Khilan Patel (3\/4) and Deepesh Devendran (3\/14) took three each to carry India to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All-action Bakrania inspires Tanzania<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tanzania impressed ahead of their first-ever ICC Under-19 Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup with a comfortable win against Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laksh Bakrania produced a captain\u2019s performance by hitting an unbeaten 53 with the bat and taking two wickets with the ball in the 81-run victory via DLS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tanzania batted first and rebuilt from 17 for three to score 204 for nine, with Bakrania top-scoring and further contributions from Karim Kiseto (34) and Augustine Mwamele (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kazuma Kato-Stafford (2\/32) removed Tanzania\u2019s openers, while Nihar Parmar took three for 15 as Japan impressed in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Set an adjusted 127 in the run chase, Japan struggled to form a meaningful partnership as Tanzania\u2019s impressive bowling arsenal blew them away for 45 \u2013 with Raymond Francis taking three for seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gill hits century against hosts Zimbabwe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Amrinder Gill hit an excellent century at the top of the order as USA appeared set for a promising total against Zimbabwe before rain halted play in Harare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gill hit 15 fours in his 118-ball knock and carried USA to 174 for four from 33.2 overs before wet weather curtailed the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n USA captain Utkarsh Srivastava weighed in with 30, while Dhruv Patel took two wickets for Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrew on form as West Indies make solid start<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jewel Andrew top-scored for West Indies with a well-executed 81 but their match with Ireland was also abandoned due to rain in Windhoek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n West Indies were bowled out for 246 in 42.5 overs, with wicket-keeper Andrew the only batter to pass 50, but Ireland were unable to start their innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrew had support from Isra-El Morton (36), Jonathan Van Lange (28) and Zachary Carter (26), while Luke Murray was the pick of the Ireland bowlers as he finished with three for 39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kalam hits the ground running<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Masvingo, Kalam Siddiki got his eye in with an unbeaten 71 but rain curtailed Bangladesh\u2019s match with Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pakistan elected to field and made a promising start by restricting Bangladesh to 12 for three as Ali Raza removed both openers in his first over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Siddiki, batting at four, held the innings together and hit six fours in his 98-ball innings, but Pakistan took regular wickets and Rizan Hossan (18) was Bangladesh\u2019s next highest scorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The inclement weather reduced Bangladesh\u2019s innings to a maximum of 43 overs and they completed 36.3 before the match was abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two teams next play on Tuesday, with Pakistan due to face USA in Bulawayo while Bangladesh head to Harare to play Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scores in brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n India v Scotland<\/strong> at Bulawayo Athletic Club, Bulawayo<\/em> Scotland 112\/9 (rev) in 23.2 overs (Theo Robinson 30, Manu Saraswat 23 not out; Khilan Patel (3\/4), Deepesh Devendran (3\/14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Result: India beat Scotland by 121 runs (DLS method)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ireland v West Indies<\/strong> at Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek<\/em> Ireland did not bat<\/p>\n\n\n\n Result: Match abandoned<\/p>\n\n\n\n Japan v Tanzania<\/strong> at United Cricket Club Ground, Windhoek<\/em> Japan 45 (rev) in 14.3 overs (Nikhil Pol 12, Montgomery Hinze 7 not out; Raymond Francis 3\/7, Laksh Bakrania 2\/13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Result: Tanzania beat Japan by 81 runs (DLS method)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pakistan v Bangladesh<\/strong> at Masvingo Sports Club, Masvingo<\/em> Pakistan did not bat<\/p>\n\n\n\n Result: Match abandoned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The road to Harare begun for 10 more teams yesterday, with five warm-ups matches ahead of the ICC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-cricket"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed.jpg",2002,1112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed-300x167.jpg",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed-768x427.jpg",640,356,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed-1024x569.jpg",640,356,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed-1536x853.jpg",1536,853,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed.jpg",2002,1112,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vaibhav-Sooryavanshi_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7822,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions\/7822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
India 374\/8 in 50 overs (Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 96, Vihaan Malhotra 77; Ollie Jones 4\/70, George Cutler 1\/26)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
West Indies 246 in 42.5 overs (Jewel Andrew 81, Isra-El Morton 36; Luke Murray 3\/39, Thomas Ford 2\/38)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tanzania 204\/9 in 50 overs (Laksh Bakrania 53 not out, Karim Kiseto 34; Nihar Parmar 3\/15, Kazuma Kato-Stafford 2\/32)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bangladesh 152\/7 in 36.3 overs (Kalam Siddiki 71 not out, Rizan Hossan 18; Ali Raza 3\/34, Mohammad Seyam 1\/7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n