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There is a clash between India and Pakistan in the Under-19 Asia Cup 2025 on 14 December. Although there is a lot of excitement and curiosity for this match, but now due to another reason the impatience for this match has increased. That is because in this match, two such openers from India and Pakistan will play, who scored stormy centuries in the very first match. Young batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi played an inning of 171 runs for Team India. Whereas Pakistani batsman Sameer Minhas scored 177 runs, even more than Vaibhav. But despite scoring more runs, Sameer Minhas’s innings did not show the storm that the 14-year-old Indian batsman showed.
Sameer made a bigger score than Vaibhav
The tournament started in UAE from Friday 12th December, which is being played in ODI format. On the very first day, while on one hand the Indian team faced host UAE, on the other hand Pakistan was facing competition from Malaysia. Obviously the eyes of Indian fans Vaibhav Suryavanshi Was based on the batting of K, who has already created a stir with his stormy batting this year and has made many records. Vaibhav did not disappoint and played a brilliant inning of 171 runs in just 95 balls. This is also the biggest score of Vaibhav’s career.
At the same time when Vaibhav scored this, Pakistan’s 19 year old opener Sameer Minhas also scored a century. Right-handed batsman Sameer played a bigger innings than Vaibhav and scored 177 runs, which is currently the highest score in this tournament. The Pakistani batsman scored more runs than Vaibhav but his innings did not have the quality of the 14 year old Indian star and in every aspect except runs, he lagged behind Vaibhav Suryavanshi.
no speed like glory
While Vaibhav completed his half-century in 30 balls and century in just 56 balls, the Pakistani batsman completed 50 runs in 73 balls and then his century in 122 balls. That means he failed to bat as stormy as Vaibhav. Whereas Vaibhav played his innings of 171 runs in just 95 balls, in which his strike rate was 180. Sameer Minhas lagged behind here too and scored 177 runs in 148 balls at a strike rate of 119.
Not only this, Vaibhav Suryavanshi hit 14 sixes and 9 fours and collected a total of 23 boundaries, whereas the Pakistani batsman could hit only 11 sixes and 8 fours. That means, it is clear that Minhas scored only 6 runs more than Vaibhav but on every other front he lagged behind the young Indian batsman. Not only this, the Pakistani team could also score only 345 runs while India scored a staggering score of 433 runs.