The bat of Ayush Mhatre and Vaibhav remained silent while the bat of Vihaan and Aaron George roared, Team India defeated Sri Lanka by 8 wickets and made place in the final for the 8th time.

Team India: The first semi-final match of Under-19 Asia Cup 2025 was played between India and Sri Lanka (IND vs SL), while the second semi-final was played between the teams of Pakistan and Bangladesh (PAK vs BAN). On one hand, the Indian team has defeated Sri Lanka by 8 wickets and got the ticket for the final, on the other hand, the Pakistan team has also confirmed its place in the final by defeating the last winning Bangladesh team.

Today, due to rain, the match between India and Sri Lanka was played only for 20-20 overs, where after the brilliant performance of the Indian fast bowlers, the Indian middle order batsmen showed a brilliant game.

Team India’s bowlers tightened their grip on Sri Lankan batsmen.

Sri Lanka, who came to bat first, did not have a special start, Viran Chamuditha and Dulnith Sigera started the innings for Sri Lanka, both the opener batsmen walked out after scoring only 25 runs. After this, captain Vimath Dinsara batted carefully, scoring 32 runs in 29 balls.

The subsequent batsmen could not do anything special, but for Sri Lanka, Chamika Heenathigala and Sethmika Seneviratne took Sri Lanka to a respectable score. For Sri Lanka, Chamika Heenathigala scored the highest score of 42 runs, while Sethmika Seneviratne played an inning of 30 runs, due to which the Sri Lankan team was successful in scoring 138 runs in the stipulated 20 overs.

For India (Team India), Henil Patel and Kanishk Chauhan took 2-2 wickets, while Kishan Kumar Singh, Deepesh Devendran and Khilan Patel got 1-1 success.

Sri Lankan team was nowhere to be seen in front of Team India.

For Team India, captain Ayush Mhatre and young Vaibhav Suryavanshi started the innings, but both could not do anything special. Captain Ayush Mhatre went out after scoring 7 runs, while Vaibhav Suryavanshi was out after scoring only 9 runs. Both the opener batsmen of India had returned to the pavilion on 25 runs, but after this Team India made a comeback.

India’s vice-captain Vihaan Malhotra and number 3’s most reliable batsman Aaron George handled the innings, both of them remained unbeaten till the end and gave victory to Team India with 12 balls remaining.

Aaron George played an inning of 58 runs in 49 balls with the help of 4 fours and one six, while Vihaan Malhotra played an inning of 61 runs in 45 balls, in which he hit 4 fours and two sixes.

For Sri Lanka, Rasith Nimsara took only 2 wickets, although during this period he spent 31 runs in 4 overs and was the most economical bowler.