LIVE Cricket Score, India vs USA U19 World Cup 2026: Favourites IND start their campaign against USA

IND vs USA U19 Live: India start u19 World Cup campaign against USA.

IND vs USA U19 Live Cricket Score Updates: Favourites India are set to begin their U-19 World Cup campaign on Thursday when the Ayush Mhatre-led team take on USA in their opening match of the tournament. India are clubbed in Group B with Bangladesh and New Zealand and will aim to qualify for the Super Six stage of the showpiece event.

India have been the most dominant unit in the World Cup’s history, winning the trophy in 2000, 2008, 2012, 2022 and 201. They also went to the final of the 2024 edition but missed out due to a loss to the Australians. The current team has won 13 of their last 16 matches, including series victories in England, Australia and South Africa.

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The well-balanced unit is spearheaded by destructive batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi who will be taking most of the limelight after his recent exploits for India as well as last year’s IPL. He will be supported by Mhatre, Vihaan Malhotra Aaron George and Abhigyan Kundu who are all exceptional with the bat on their day. In the bowling part of the team, Deepesh Devendran, RS Ambrish, Kishan Singh and Henil Patel will be crucial.

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(From left): Oliver Peake with his family; Ambrish with his father Sukumar. (Special Arrangement)

U19 World Cup’s stars-in-the-making whose cricket-playing fathers had a DNS against their names

A promising cricketing career cut short because of joining a rebel league; a first-class debut that never arrived despite being on the fringes in Railways; a world-record holder from 1995, his career coinciding with Victoria’s most dominant era that he could not even play a dozen first-class cricket matches in Australia; an international career that ended abruptly because he rebelled against his cricket board. All broken dreams of cricket-playing elders that spawned new determination in the next generation.

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