Farhan Ahmed and England will meet five-time champions India in the ICC Under-19 Men’s World Cup Final in Harare tomorrow.

The three-week tournament has featured 16 contenders - including a debutant team for the first time since 2020 - and a total of 40 matches thus far.

However, it all comes to a head in the Zimbabwean capital tomorrow when Ahmed’s England will aim to halt the juggernaut of India, who are contesting their sixth consecutive final.

Both sides boast a 100% record, having swept through their respective group and Super Six stages, before triumphing over Australia and Afghanistan, respectively, in the semi-finals.

In the English camp, Ben Mayes and captain Thomas Rew have been the standouts with the bat, striking 399 and 299 runs, respectively, with the former’s tally in particular placing him second in the tournament’s overall standings.

He will need to hit a further 37 runs in the final to finish atop the pile in all likelihood, but on the opposite side of the coin sits Manny Lumsden, whose 15 wickets have him in the overall World Cup lead with the ball.

Indian seamer Henil Patel is the man in pole position to pounce there, though given he has 11 in the tournament to date, he will still need to take five more scalps than Lumsden in the final alone to do so.

Ahmed, meanwhile, who captained the Under-19s for the first time on their November tour of the West Indies, has had a valuable tournament with both bat and ball.

Returning to the role of vice-captain for the tournament, the 17-year-old has occupied a role as the enforcer when bowling, keeping his economy rate down to just 3.57.

That is the third-lowest across the entire tournament of anyone who has bowled more than 30 overs, and indeed Ahmed himself has sent down the most of anyone in the entire competition, with 56.

He has also proven himself a more than useful option with the bat, contributing 87 runs from 90 balls faced across four innings, and ending unbeaten in three of his knocks.

The final appears likely to be decided between the impressive bowling trickery of England, and the batting might of India.

The Young Lions, alongside Lumsden, have Ralphie Albert in the tournament’s top ten wicket-takers, while precocious sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi leads the way with the bat for India.

Sooryavanshi, who first came to global attention by becoming the youngest ever men’s T20 centurion for Rajasthan Royals during last year’s IPL, has struck 264 runs in this World Cup.

Ahmed v Sooryavanshi. Patel v Mayes. Rew v Ambrish. The World Cup final, with the opportunity of success for one of Nottinghamshire’s own, begins tomorrow at 09:30am GMT.