The final of 5th Late Shri J.Y. Lele All India U-19 Invitational One Day Tournament 2017-18 was played on 23rd Sep’17 at Reliance Cricket Stadium, Vadodara between two of the strongest teams of the tournament - Uttar Pradesh U-19 and Madhya Pradesh U-19.
Madhya Pradesh U-19 won the toss and elected to field. The decision didn’t work out well for the team as they failed completely to restrict the opponent. Uttar Pradesh U-19 played an exceptional innings with some wonderful performances. Priyam Garg (c) was on fire. He scored 98 runs in 52 balls with ten 4’s and six 6’s. Karan Sharma too scored a century and was not out at 100. Other players too played remarkably well and the team reached to the huge score of 342 runs in 50 overs by losing 6 wickets.
While replying, Madhya Pradesh U-19 did not manage to perform well under the pressure and started to lose wickets from the early overs. None of the players scored at required pace and entire team crumbled at 151 runs in 35.2 overs. Pick of the bowlers was Shubhashish Biswas from Uttar Pradesh U-19 who took 3 wickets in 5 overs.
Uttar Pradesh U-19 won the final by a wide margin of 191 runs against Madhya Pradesh U-19.
Player of the match was Karan Sharma from Uttar Pradesh U-19.
Team CricHeroes congratulates Uttar Pradesh U-19 for the glorious victory!!