Pakistan has won the Asia Cup title for the second timeImage Credit source: Asian Cricket Council
Pakistan has won the title of Under-19 Asia Cup 2025. In the final played in Dubai, Pakistan defeated Team India under the captaincy of Ayush Mhatre in a one-sided manner by a huge margin of 191 runs. In this way, Pakistan won the final for the first time and won the title. However, this is Pakistan’s second title. Earlier in 2012, it had played the final against India but then that match was tied and both the teams were declared joint winners. In this way Pakistan has become absolute champion for the first time.
Sameer Minhas scored a stormy century
There were big eyes on this match played on Sunday 21st December at the ICC Academy because about 3 months after the Senior Men’s Asia Cup 2025, the Under-19 teams of both the countries were also facing off in the final of the Asia Cup. Team India won the final held on 28 September. In the Under-19 tournament also, Team India had defeated Pakistan badly once in the group stage. Also, Pakistan’s opener Sameer Minhas and India’s young star Vaibhav Suryavanshi There was excitement about the collision even among the
But this final proved to be exactly like the title match of the 2017 Champions Trophy. Team India won the toss and decided to bowl first but it proved to be completely wrong. Opener Sameer Minhas, who had already scored the most runs in the tournament, played another excellent innings and scored a century in just 71 balls. Minhas was out after playing a stormy innings of 172 runs in just 113 balls, which included 17 fours and 9 sixes. However, after the dismissal of Minhas, the Indian team made some comeback but Pakistan again made a big score of 347 runs for 8 wickets.
Vaibhav collapsed after a stormy start, the entire team also failed
Team India had its eyes on Vaibhav Suryavanshi and the star opener gave a similar start. Vaibhav started hitting sixes as soon as he came and India’s score reached 32 runs in just 14 balls, when captain Mhatre was out. But in this Mhatre had scored only 2 runs. After this, Aaron George also hit fours but he also returned to the pavilion in the fourth over. The biggest blow to the Indian team came on the first ball of the 5th over, when Vaibhav (26 runs, 10 balls) was out and returned to the pavilion. India had lost 3 wickets for only 49 runs.
Even after this, there were expectations from batsmen like Vihaan Malhotra and Abhigyan Kundu, who had already played good innings in the tournament. But this time even he did not move ahead of the pace of Pakistani bowling. The Indian team had lost 7 wickets for only 94 runs. In the end, Deepesh Devendran, who came at number 10, scored 36 runs in just 16 balls and took the team to 156 runs, which was the final score of the Indian team. Pacer Ali Raza took 4 wickets including Vaibhav for Pakistan.