Bloemfontein: Left-arm spinner Atharva Ankolekar showed big heart while leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi was all guile in India’s 44-run win against New Zealand as they set-up a quarter-final date with Australia in the ICC U-19 World Cup here on Friday. During a rain-hit final Group ‘A’ league encounter reduced to 23-overs per-side, India scored 115 for no loss in 23 overs with openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (57 not out off 72 balls) and Divyansh Saxena (52 no off 62 balls) hitting half-centuries.

New Zealand needed 193 as per DLS method calculations but managed only 147 in 21 overs as India emerged group toppers with six points. Left-arm orthodox Ankolekar, who played through pain with a fractured finger on his right hand, had figures of 3-28 in five overs with some accurate wicket-to-wicket bowling. This was after New Zealand No. 3 Fergus Lellman hit him for two sixes off his first two deliveries.