India vs UAE U19 Match Result: Aaryavir Sehwag’s 160 Powers India into U19 Asia Cup Semi-Finals with 70-Run Win

India Under-19s beat United Arab Emirates Under-19s by 70 runs in the ACC Men’s U19 Asia Cup 2026 at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground in Oman on Tuesday, November 10, sealing their place in the semi-finals. Aaryavir Sehwag’s magnificent 160 off 168 balls powered India to 309/7 before the bowlers held UAE to 239 in their 50 overs in a virtual Group A knockout.

The win takes India to four points from three group games — two wins and one defeat — and into the November 12 semi-finals alongside group winners Pakistan, who had beaten India by three wickets in the previous match. UAE, who won the toss and chose to field, finish their group campaign without a semi-final place.

India vs UAE U19 match result: score summary

Team	Score	Top scorer	Best bowling
India Under-19s	309/7 (50 overs)	Aaryavir Sehwag 160 (168)	Naseem Khan 1 wicket (dismissed Sehwag)
UAE Under-19s	239 (50 overs)	Ahmed Khudadad 74 (74)	—

Result: India Under-19s won by 70 runs. Venue: Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amarat, Oman. Toss: UAE won the toss and elected to field. Player of the Match: not officially confirmed in sources at publication time — Aaryavir Sehwag’s 160 was the standout performance of the match.

Aaryavir Sehwag’s 160 sets up India’s 309/7

Pushed up to open the batting with captain Lakshya Raichandani — a role he does not usually fill, having batted at No. 3 earlier in the tournament — Aaryavir Sehwag took 14 balls to get off the mark and then took complete control of the innings. He reached his fifty in 69 balls and went on to a maiden India Under-19 hundred, finishing with 160 off 168 deliveries, including 17 fours and seven sixes.

Sehwag’s 160 is the highest individual score of this U19 Asia Cup so far and the joint fifth-highest by an Indian batter in Youth ODIs, matching the 160s scored by Shubman Gill against England at the Wankhede in 2017 and Mayank Agarwal against Australia in Hobart in 2009. Only Ambati Rayudu’s unbeaten 177 against England U19 in Taunton in 2002 stands above it on the Indian list. Sehwag now has 252 runs in three matches at the tournament, at an average of 126.00, after scores of 70 not out against Nepal and 22 against Pakistan.

The platform for India’s total was the massive 193-run second-wicket partnership between Sehwag and VK Vineeth, who scored 67 off 69 balls with three fours and three sixes. India were 42 without loss after the first 10 overs and looked set for even more until Sehwag fell in the 45th over, caught by Uddish Suri at mid-wicket off Naseem Khan. The middle order could not quite provide the late flourish India wanted, but 309/7 was still the highest team total of the tournament, passing Bangladesh’s 303/8 against Malaysia.

UAE chase never recovers after early wickets

Chasing 310, UAE needed a fast start and never got one. India’s bowlers struck regularly through the innings, and by the time UAE reached 116/4 after 31.3 overs the required rate had climbed past 10 an over. The chase effectively ended there, even though Ahmed Khudadad fought hard at No. 4.

Khudadad top-scored for UAE with 74 off 74 balls, hitting six fours and three sixes, and Noorullah Ayobi gave the innings late impetus with 39 off 25 balls, including four sixes. Yayin Kiran Rai made 29 off 44 and captain Ayaan Misbah 27 off 53, but no UAE batter could build the big partnership the chase demanded. UAE finished on 239 in their 50 overs, 70 runs short.

India’s bowlers share the wickets in U19 Asia Cup win

Ishan Sood was India’s most successful bowler with 2/34 from six overs, and the wickets were shared across the attack — Manal Chauhan (1/32 from 10 overs, including a maiden), Aryan Savsani (1/21 from seven), Arjun Rajput (1/23 from six, including two maidens), Kavya Paresh Patel (1/37), Yashbardhan Chauhan (1/23) and Mohit Ulva (1/56) all took one wicket each. The discipline of the attack kept UAE’s scoring in check throughout: after the early wickets, the run rate never recovered enough to threaten India’s total.

Key turning points in India vs UAE U19 Asia Cup match

• The 193-run stand: Sehwag and Vineeth’s second-wicket partnership turned a cautious 42/0 start into a match-winning platform, adding nearly two-thirds of India’s total together.
• Sehwag’s acceleration: after taking 14 balls to score his first run, Sehwag’s boundary hitting — 17 fours and seven sixes — pushed India past 300 and out of UAE’s reach.
• UAE’s middle-order stall: at 116/4 after 31.3 overs, UAE needed 194 from 18.3 overs, and the required rate above 10 an over killed the chase even before the late wickets fell.
• Khudadad’s lone fight: the UAE No. 4’s 74 kept the scoreboard moving, but with no support at the other end — the next best UAE score after him was Ayobi’s 39 — the target stayed out of reach.

What the result means for the U19 Asia Cup Group A standings

India finish second in Group A with four points: a win over Nepal, the three-wicket defeat to Pakistan — when Arjun Rajput’s 107 off 85 set up 208 before Pakistan chased it down in 48.1 overs — and now this 70-run win over UAE. Pakistan top the group with three wins from three, and both sides advance to the semi-finals on November 12. UAE are eliminated, and Nepal finish bottom of the group.

The result also underlines how quickly this young Indian side has bounced back from the Pakistan defeat. Two days after that loss raised questions about the batting, Sehwag’s hundred and a disciplined bowling performance delivered exactly the response the team needed in a must-win game.

What’s next for India U19 at the U19 Asia Cup

India play their U19 Asia Cup semi-final on Thursday, November 12, with the final scheduled for Saturday, November 14. The semi-final opponents will be decided by the Group B standings. For Sehwag, the form is ominous for whoever India face next: 252 runs in three innings, a maiden youth hundred, and the highest score of the tournament so far.

Our streaming preview had framed this as a virtual knockout — win and reach the semi-finals, lose and go home — and India won it in style. No prediction pick was published for this fixture, so there is no pick to mark right or wrong; the result itself is the story, and it keeps India’s U19 Asia Cup campaign alive.

Read our India vs UAE U19 live streaming preview for the build-up to this virtual knockout, the India vs Pakistan U19 result from the group-stage clash, and our India vs Pakistan U19 live streaming guide from that marquee group game.