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- Updated: December 23, 2016
India Under-19s 273 for 8 (Rana 71, Gill 70, Ransika 3-50, Jayawickrama 3-53) beat Sri Lanka Under-19s 238 (Kelly 62, Mendis 53, Abhishek 4-37, Chahar 3-22) by 34 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details
Half-centuries from opener Himanshu Rana and No. 3 Shubman Gill provided India Under-19s with a total of 273, which they were able to defend successfully thanks a middle-overs squeeze by their spinners Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Chahar. In the end, hosts Sri Lanka were beaten by 34 runs.
At one point though, that result had seemed unlikely. With the momentum of picking up six wickets in the last 11 overs fuelling them, Sri Lanka went after the target with great …