Overview
- Vaibhav Suryavanshi smashed 127 off 74 balls with 10 sixes and 9 fours, earning Player of the Match and Series as India U19 routed South Africa by 233 runs to clinch a 3-0 sweep.
- Aaron George made 118 in a 227-run opening stand as India posted 393 for 7, before South Africa were dismissed for 160 in 35 overs with Kishan Kumar Singh triggering the top-order collapse.
- Ruturaj Gaikwad struck 134* for Maharashtra to equal the Vijay Hazare Trophy record of 15 centuries and became the fastest to 20 List A hundreds, reaching the mark in 95 innings while crossing 5,000 List A runs.
- Sarfaraz Khan recorded the fastest half-century in Vijay Hazare Trophy history, reaching fifty in 15 balls and finishing 62 off 20 with 30 in one over off Abhishek Sharma, though Mumbai lost to Punjab by one run.
- Ravichandran Ashwin highlighted Suryavanshi’s month-long scoring spree in a widely shared post as India’s U19 clean sweep in Benoni doubles as a final tune-up for the World Cup starting mid-January.