Aaron George’s silken hundred seamlessly merged with the explosive fifties from IPL stars Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Ayush Mhatre guided India to the ICC U-19 World Cup final with a seven-wicket win over Afghanistan here on Wednesday. India now face England in the summit clash here on Friday. It will be India’s 10th final in the U-19 showpiece, a testimony to BCCI’s structured junior cricket programme that unearths serious talent.

Two Afghan centurions

India seemed to have a tough task ahead once Afghanistan piled 310-4, built around hundreds by Faisal Shinozada (110) and Uzairullah Niazal (101).