New South Wales batsman Jason Sangha continues to impress at the Under 19 National Championships
When former Test captain Greg Chappell rates you as one of the top juniors Australia has produced, there has to be some merit behind you.
When you are selected to travel to England as a 15-year-old as part of the New South Wales Combined High Schools squad, your gameplay must be strong.
And when you are the only teenager to progress through Cricket Australia's elite junior pathway out of more than 70 kids, you're one of a kind.
Meet Jason Sangha, the prodigious teenage talent out of Newcastle who, having turned 16 in September, is making waves in the Under 19 National Championships.
A classy No.3 bat, Sangha is stylish and graceful yet powerful beyond his years. At 13 he made his debut in Newcastle's first-grade competition. Earlier this year he lead from the front as NSW won the inaugural School Sports Australia under-15 tournament in Darwin. That earned him a spot in the Cricket Australia XI to contest the Under 17 National Championships in Brisbane, from where he was the only player to progress to the CA XI for the U19 championships.
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A knock of 102 by debutant batsman Jason Sangha set the base for Australia Under-19s' 23-run win (Duckworth-Lewis method) over Pakistan Under-19s, their first win in the tri-nation tournament in the UAE.
Batting at no. 6, Sangha's 113-ball century in his first Youth ODI helped Australia recover from a poor start of 45 for 5 after they were put in to bat. Pacer Sameen Gul, who went on to finish with returns of 5 for 44, did most of the damage in this period taking three of the first five wickets. Sangha, however, rallied the lower order to lift Australia past 200. He was involved in partnerships of 55 and 51 for the eighth and ninth wickets with Wes Agar and Tom O'Donnell respectively, before his dismissal in 47th over. Sangha's knock included 13 fours and two sixes.
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