UAE registered their first U19 World Cup win with a resounding 7-wicket demolition of Scotland to progress to the Plate Championship semi-final in Abu Dhabi thanks largely to a superb spell from Omer Rizwan.
Rizwan bowled his ten overs off the reel to claim 4-24 and register his side's best bowling figures to date, a spell in which the Scottish side were reduced to 63-5.
Pankaj Samat (3-45) also impressed, taking his total wicket tally for the tournament to nine which places him as the joint fifth most successful bowler of the tournament so far. Sunair Khan, Moaaz Ayub and Justin James all chipped in with a wicket apiece to restrict Scotland to a paltry 119 all-out with 12.2 overs still left to bat.
The host nation then went about knocking off Scotland's total with relative ease despite losing Dan D'Souza for 0 in the first over of their innings.
In just his second match of the tournament 17 year-old Shiv Mehra was not deterred by losing his opening partner so earaly on and went on to top-score for the UAE with 41 from 73 balls.
Shorye Chopra's 26 from 36 balls and captain Rohit Singh's 15* from 22 helped see their side home but it was Shivank Vijayakumar (28*) who finished the match in style by despatching Scotland's Mark Watt for six to win the game.
The UAE will now face New Zealand in the Plate Championships semi-final at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday from 9.30am.
