South Africa staged a professional bowling performance and capped it up with some good fielding to bowl out former champions India for a paltry 159 (45.4 overs) in the ICC World Cup U-19 finals at Kuala Lumpur today.

The Indian batting never struck the right rhythm through the innings as they were stifled on the whole by some sharp fielding and good tight bowling by the Proteas.

Tanmay Srivastava was the top-scorer for India with 46 while most of the top order simply failed to get going.

South Africa decided to field first and had that decision working their way as India struggled from time to time to be all out cheaply as the rival bowlers kept chipping away with regular breakthroughs.

Scoreboard
India U-19
T Kohli c Malan b Parnell 1
S Goswami c Hendricks b Arnold 6
T Srivastava c Engelbrecht b Adams 46
V Kohli c Engelbrecht b Malan 19
S Tiwary st Barnes b Vallie 20
M Pandey c Barnes b Arnold 20
R Jadeja c Vandiar b Vallie 11
Iqbal Abdulla run out (Engelbrecht) 9
P Sangwan c Barnes b Adams 13
S Kaul not out 1
A Argal c Barnes b Parnell 1
Extras: 12 ( b:0 lb:2 nb:0 w:10)
Total: 159-10 (45.4) | Curr. RR: 3.48

FOW: T Kohli (3-1, 4.1), S Goswami (27-2, 9.1), *V Kohli (74-3, 22.4), T Srivastava (83-4, 25.4), S Tiwary (120-5, 35), P Pandey (122-6, 35.4), Iqbal Abdulla (137-7, 39.4), R Jadeja (150-8, 43), P Sangwan (158-9, 44.5), A Argal (159-10, 45.4)

South Africa
D Parnell 7.4 2 21 2
M Arnold 10 0 30 2
P Malan 9 1 23 1
R Adams 8 0 38 2
M Vallie 9 0 33 2
S Engelbrecht 2 0 12 0