Utkarsh Srivastava- Captain of USA U19 (PHOTO: X)
IND vs USA, U19 World Cup: The player whose roots are linked to India is going to be a threat to Team India in the first match of the Under-19 ODI World Cup. He was born in Pune, worked on the nuances of cricket in Delhi, but now he will be seen playing against India. When Ayush Mhatre's Indian team starts its campaign in the Under-19 ODI World Cup, that player will enter with the aim of making USA win. We are talking about Utkarsh Srivastava, who has the entire command of the USA U19 team in his hands.
This will be Utkarsh Srivastava's second Under ODI World Cup. Before this, he had also played in this ICC event in the year 2024. The only difference is that this time he is with the team in the capacity of captain. Now captaincy means more responsibility, which starts with making the team start with a win.
USA U19 team captain Utkarsh Srivastava was born on 18 February 2007 in Pune. In that sense, this time's Under-19 ODI World Cup is also going to be his last. Now if the last World Cup ends with some great victories, then what can be better than that? For Utkarsh Srivastava, that victory could be against India. Why is it so, its strings are connected to the incident of 717 days ago?
This time the teams of India and USA will be seen clashing for the second time in Under 19 ODI. The first match between these two was played 717 days ago on January 28 in the Under-19 ODI World Cup 2024. There was no player from the current Indian team in that match, but Utkarsh Srivastava was definitely present in the USA Under-19 team.
India's Under-19 team played under the captaincy of Uddhav Mohan and won the match against USA by a huge margin of 201 runs. While chasing the big target of 327 runs given by India, USA Under-19 team could score only 125 runs. In that match, Utkarsh Srivastava, playing for USA, scored 40 runs in 73 balls with the bat after giving away 44 runs in 7 overs with the ball.
Utkarsh Srivastava would like to do the work which he could not do as a player, now under his captaincy. For this, he also came to Delhi and took training after the 2024 Under One Day World Cup. He trained with coach SP Yadav in Delhi. After that training, he also played a tournament here, in which he scored 422 runs with 6 sixes and 56 fours in 10 matches.
Utkarsh Srivastava has been trying the training he took from coach SP Yadav in Delhi in America also. Now it remains to be seen how much impact that training can leave on the Indian Under-19 team. Simply put, this match between the Indian team and Bharatwale in the U19 World Cup is going to be interesting.
