'Vaishnavi Sharma's debut: Created a stir with a hat-trick, India won the match in 2.5 overs!'

ICC U19 Women's World Cup 2025: India's young cricketer Vaishnavi Sharma created history by debuting in the ICC U19 Women's World Cup 2025. In the second match of this competition, India achieved a spectacular victory by bowling out Malaysia for just 31 runs. Vaishnavi Sharma destroyed the Malaysian batsmen with her tremendous bowling.

Vaishnavi Sharma's great debut

19 year old Vaishnavi Sharma surprised everyone with her bowling. He took a hat-trick and took 5 wickets for 5 runs in the debut match itself. Thanks to his brilliant bowling, the Malaysian team collapsed for 31 runs in only 14.3 overs. During this, she also bowled a maiden over, and it has been considered the best bowling performance of the ICC U19 Women's World Cup so far. Before this match, this record was held by England's Ellie Anderson.

India power through Malaysia to take the top-spot in Group A 👏#INDvMAS 📝: https://t.co/QOFFsqPBDM#U19WorldCup pic.twitter.com/BD2Xd6nO8v

— ICC (@ICC) January 21, 2025

The entire Malaysian team could not score double digit runs.

Indian bowlers did not give any chance to Malaysian batsmen. Four out of 11 Malaysian batsmen could not even open their account. The rest of the batsmen were also able to score only single digit scores. Malaysia's opening pair Noor Aliya Hairun and Husna scored only 5 runs each.

Team India's quick victory

In response to this small target of Malaysia, Team India won the match by scoring 32 runs in just 2.5 overs. The opening pair of Gongadi Trisha and G Kamalini accomplished the target within 3 overs without taking any wicket. Trisha scored 27 runs in 12 balls with the help of 5 fours, and Kamalini scored 4 runs.

First hat-trick of #U19WorldCup 2025 ✅
Five-wicket haul ✅

Vaishnavi Sharma takes home the @aramco POTM for her dream spell against Malaysia 👏 pic.twitter.com/feKMutFVT9

— ICC (@ICC) January 21, 2025

Young players showed their strength with great success

Vaishnavi Sharma played the biggest role in India's bowling, but Ayushi Shukla also took 3 wickets and Joshita VJ took one wicket and put Malaysia under more pressure. With this victory, the Indian team also registered its second win in the tournament. This match further strengthened the fortunes of Indian women's cricket, and young cricketers like Vaishnavi Sharma proved that their future is very bright. After this brilliant performance, Team India was successful in proving its bowling prowess to the whole world.