Overview

• India U19 finished Day 3 at 128/3 in their second innings to extend a dominant 229-run advantage over England U19 at Beckenham.
• Fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi took 2/35 in England’s first innings to become the youngest Indian and third-youngest bowler ever to claim a Youth Test wicket.
• He then scored a fluent 56 off 44 balls in India’s second innings, underlining his emerging status as a genuine all-round prodigy.
• Suryavanshi arrived in the Test series on the back of a record-breaking U19 ODI campaign in which he amassed 355 runs at a strike rate of 174.01.
• India’s bowlers dismissed England for 439 in their first innings, setting the platform for a likely push for victory on Day 4.