England U19 vs IND Under-19, Final at North Sound, U19 WC, Feb 05 2022 - Match Result

4.05 pm None of their six opponents could stop India, and nor could Covid. A thoroughly dominant display from start to finish in this tournament.

India head coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar: "It's too exciting for my good, but happy with the result. I think we learned a lot from this. We were looking to bat as well. There was a little bit of moisture. [Dhull] led them very well. He has a very good head on his shoulders. I think it's a fabulous competition, getting this stage to perform at this young age, for all teams. It's a great opportunity to showcase talent and for the academies around the world."

VVS Laxman: "Firstly huge congratulations to the selection committee. It was a new selection committee and quite challenging for them to identify this group. After that, the coaching staff with Hrishikesh as the head coach, Sai Raj, Munish, and all the support staff, the way they got this group together, they worked really hard, won the Asia Cup and the preparation for this World Cup was fantastic. But in the middle of this tournament, we all know what happened to the boys. To test positive [for Covid] but show the kind of resilience and positive attitude was exemplary. I think the BCCI has to be complemented. The number of matches and tournaments each age group level gets to play, whether U16, U19 or U23... unfortunately due to Covid they didn't get to play any tournaments and that's why I think this tournament win is very special. It's important but this is just a learning process and just the start of their journey. Everyone in this group understands that. This is about development as players and as a person and it's great to see how they've developed and evolved over the last couple of months but this is just the start of their journey as a cricketer."

ICC CEO Geoff Allardice is at the post-match presentation party, along with CWI president Ricky Skerritt, and three Antiguan legends: Sir Andy Roberts, Sir Curtly Ambrose and Sir Richie Richardson.

Player of the Match is Raj Bawa for his 5 for 31 and 35 with the bat: "It always feels great to contribute to the team in any match but in a final it feels really special."

Player of the Tournament (decided by Samuel Badree, Natalie Germanos, Graeme La Brooy, Sandipan Banerjee, and Callum Davies) is Dewald Brevis of South Africa, who was the runaway leading scorer in the event with 506 runs.

England captain Tom Prest: "Choosing to bat first, we'd have liked a better start, but the way James Rew then batted to get his 95, deserved a hundred. We got to a store where we thought we were in the game with and gave it a crack. We've got a strong bowling attack and taking a wicket in the first over got the mood up and got the confidence going. They obviously batted really well. They had a couple of great partnerships so credit to them. It's been amazing. We all really enjoyed it, not only the cricket but the media exposure as well, doing interviews like this, is something that we'll never forget and we're very proud of our achievements. It's been incredible and we had quite a few of our parents who have come out and flown over to support. But friends and family back home and different schools and everyone has just got behind us and it's been amazing. To test ourselves against the best players of our age, I think we've done ourselves proud and we put in some great performances."

India U19 captain Yash Dhull, who joins fellow India U19 captain World Cup champions Mohammad Kaif, Virat Kohli, Unmukt Chand and Prithvi Shaw: "It's a proud moment. It was good batting and a good comeback by England. But we kept cool minds and focus. It's great being coached by VVS sir, Hrishi sir."

Yash Dhull walks away to accept the trophy handed over to him by Richie Richardson before being swarmed by the entire Indian squad as "Chak de India!" is blasted by the DJ at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. They're trying to pose for a victory trophy but every single one of the players is snatching the trophy away from the previous player. They all want to be the one holding it aloft when the photo is snapped. Finally someone on staff convinces them to put the trophy down in front of the "CHAMPIONS" banner for the team photo. If all of them can't have it for the photo, then none of them can! A somewhat comedic moment to end the presentation.

Well, that'll do it for today's coverage from the final. Hopefully the players have kept you entertained as much as they have for us as we did the commentary. For Alan Gardner and the scoring team, I'm Peter Della Penna. Take care!

Sami: "Goodnight from Rome Italy.best wishes for both young team."

Saurabh : "Goodbye from Stockholm. It's the Indian contingent bringing the World Cup home. Proud !!"

Vishal: "Goodbye from Woodley fields Los Angeles, the boys in blue have played fantastic cricket all through the tournament. Wish them a bright future ! Hope to see the dissection by PDP soon." I'm more interested in when another ICC/USA Cricket event will be held at Woodley! A fantastic facility out in Van Nuys, 20 miles northeast of downtown LA.

Another bowling swap. James Sales into the attack with Prest and Ahmed having bowled out their 10.

Bimal: "adiós from NYC.... I was hoping for this wicket to fall, so next batter finish in an over."

Farooq Umer : "Goodbye from Mainz, Germany. This tournament has shown a glimpse of some stars to shine brightly in few years."

Kripa : "Good bye form Helsinki, Finland.. it's coming home for India and BCCI …."

Dinesh Bana arrives with 14 still left to win.

Akshay: "Au revoir from Pittsburgh, Make our nation proud India!"

Right arm medium pace back on with Aspinwall.

VenkatReddyV: "Good Bye and Good Nighgt from Chennai, INDIA. Hoping for these two to finish this game and lift the 5th world cup. I wish these young boys great future."

Atiqullah Atif: "Goodbye from Kabul, Afghanistan. The only happiness we have had in last year or so was our u19 semifinal berth. Thank you ICC, Thanks cricinfo."

Rehan switches back over the stumps after two balls around the wicket. Prest moves back to orthodox slip.

Sudeep: "A goodbye from Munich, Germany. The end is now coming thick and fast"

Prest now puts himself in at leg slip with Rehan bowling around the wicket to the right-hander.

Shrey: "Goodbye from Seattle! Hope Bawa turns out in men's team, would be an all rounder find of the tournament like Jadeja few years ago!"

Prasanna: "Slàn a hale from Kerry Ireland. It's coming home for India"

Vinod: "Goodbye from Switzerland. Can only follow the scores on Cricinfo , but most times, the feeling is better than watching the match live on a screen. Keep it up guys. Congratulations Indian young guns."

Cheithanya: "Lets focus a bit on England's next star players..Rehan Ahmad will turn out to be one heck of bowler for england with his skills in future when Adil Rashid hangs up his boots "

VS: "Goodbye from Tampere, Finland. Sorry for the English and Pakistani fans."

Amit Bhatia: "Goodbye from Farmington, CT USA. Thanks cricinfo for the coverage of the match the the tournament!" Some good restaurants in Farmington, just one town over from ESPN worldwide headquarters in Bristol, CT.