It will be history, if Bangladesh win

Emboldened by their recent performance, Bangladesh Under-19 team is determined to clinch the ICC Under-19 World Cup as they take on mighty India in the final at Senwes Park in Potchefstroom, South Africa today (Sunday).

The high-voltage final game begins at 2 PM (Bangladesh Time).

While they won most of the match in the build up to the Youth World Cup and defeated almost all teams, they always have the mental block against India. Against the mighty neighbouring country, they lost every knock-out game, they have played in the last two years-notably the Tri-nation series final in England and Asia Cup final.

And when the history beckons them, India again came in their way. So the burning question is whether they can break the dreaded trend of losing streak against India today?

But they are oozing with confidence to break the Indian hoodoo this time around. The confidence basically stemmed from their familiarity with the South African condition and the vastly improved batting and bowling attack.

Bangladesh squad: Towhid Hridoy, Shoriful Islam, Tanzid Hasan, Rakibul Hasan, Shahadat Hossain, Shamim Hossain, Akbar Ali (c & wk), Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Parvez Hossain Emon, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Hasan Murad, Avishek Das, Prantik Nawrose Nabil, Shahin Alam and Meherob Hasan

India squad: Priyam Garg (c), Kartik Tyagi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Divyansh Saxena, Ravi Bishnoi, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Siddhesh Veer, Akash Singh, Atharva Ankolekar, Sushant Mishra, Vidyadhar Patil, Shubhang Hegde, Shashwat Rawat and Kumar Kushagra

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