Anmoljeet takes nine as India U-19 complete clean sweep v Oz

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Debutant off-spinner Anmoljeet Singh and leg-spinner Mohamed Enaan picked 16 out of 20 Australian wickets as India U-19 comfortably won by an innings and 120 runs in the second Youth Test to complete a 2-0 series sweep here on Wednesday.

Australia colts lost as many as 17 wickets on the third day after commencing on their overnight score of 142 for 3 in reply to India's massive first-innings total of 492.

The visitors were all out for 277 in their first essay with skipper Oliver Peake (117) and 'keeper Alex Lee Young (66) adding 166 for the fourth wicket. After Lee Young was dismissed, the last six wickets fell for 59 runs.

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Kerala boy Enaan (4-60), who had once attended Saqlain Mushtaq's clinic in Dubai and Ludhiana's Anmoljeet (4-72), who hero worships Harbhajan Singh, were the wreckers-in-chief.

After being enforced to follow-on, Anmoljeet, who had taken an astounding 65 wickets in the Vijay Merchant (U-16) Trophy in the 2023 season, came back to get five for 32 in 13.3 overs as Australia were skittled out for 95 in 31.3 overs.

Eight Aussie players failed to reach double digits and four of them didn't bother to trouble the scorers. While Anmoljeet had match figures of 9-104, Enaan wasn't left far behind with 7-97 to show for his efforts.

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