WATCH: Vaibhav Suryavanshi falls just short of Rishabh Pant's record, smashes 20-ball fifty in U19 ODI vs England

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Vaibhav Suryavanshi.
New Delhi: Vaibhav Suryavanshi is also in top shape with India U19 busy playing an ODI series against the hosts England U19 players. Having broken the quickfire-knock of 48 and 45 in the respective first and second game, Suryavanshi rose to the occasion against the third ODI game at Northampton with a scorching 86 runs off 31 balls.
He brought up his half-century in the 20 th delivery, becoming the second-fastest Indian U-19 batsman to achieve this feat. It remains the record of Rishabh Pant who scored a fifty of 18 balls against Nepal in 2016. Vaibhav Suryavanshi's innings included nine sixes and six fours.
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Suryavansi's strong performance
Suryavanshi, who narrowly missed fifties in his last two games as he was dismissed in the 40s, made the breakthrough performance to the game and scored a career-defining knock. He ripped apart the England bowling attack scoring 86 of only 31 balls as India won the game with 4 wickets and 34.3 overs in hand chasing the target of 268/6. His explosive knocks comprised of six boundaries and nine humongous sixes, the second most sixes in an U-19 ODI by an Indian batter, beating the previous record of eight sixes, set by Mandeep Singh.
India experienced a hiccup in the middle overs as they collapsed to 199/ 6 by the 24 th over. But a late unbeaten cameo of 43 runs off 42 balls by bowling all-rounder Kanishk Chouhan, who had already taken 3 wickets at the cost of 30 runs, turned it around on its head. He together with RS Ambrish all 31 not out) put on a match-winning 75-run partnership to get India over the line.
Suryavanshi shredded all bowlers that faced him and his motive could not have been clearer. He dominated initially, blasted right-arm pacer Sebastian Morgan with two sixes in the third over.