Dubai International Cricket Stadium is going to witness the final of ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2014 on Saturday. Three-time champions Pakistan will face off two-times finalist South Africa. But this statistics is not going to matter as the both sides will play with new and fresh batch will register them in junior cricket history.
The South African openers made a strong stand in the semi-final and thus blotted out the doubts on them. Team South Africa is going to lean on the skipper Aiden Markram and Clyde Fortuin to build up a good score at first. As they have proved them a strong opening partners who have scored a huge one many times already.
Kirwin Christoffels will come at no three and he can be good backup for the openers. Now when it comes to middle order their main man Yaseen Valli is going to bat. He can be attacking if situation wants as well as act like fort to his side. The other players are Corbin Bosch and Greg Oldfield.
When it comes to the bowling action of that side they have the star bowler Kagiso Rabada. He took six wickets after 25 against Australia in the semifinal. Justin Dill, Bosch, Valli and Dirk Bruwer will complete their circle which is going to put Pakistan’s batsmen under a good pressure.
On the other hand Pakistan has two terrific batsmen including skipper Sami Aslam and Imam ul-Haq, they scored the most of the runs. After Imam got injured during semifinal, responsibility has been put on Shakeel’s shoulder as he can come in the middle order along with Kamran Ghulam and Hasan Raza. Pakistan has a fantastic partners in lower orders- Zafar Gohar and Ahmed Butt. Many times they played responsibly and showed a good score.
In the bowling section, left-arm pacer Zia-Ul-Haq will lead the bowlers along with leg-spinner Karamat Ali, left-arm spinner Ghulam and Gohar.
Although both the sides are strong enough and is going to be tough on each other but Pakistan will be hot favorite as it will be held on Saturday, the people will come to the stadium in search of some good cricket.
