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The Men’s Japan National Team put on a monumental fight against Ireland at the Under 19 World Cup in Windhoek, Namibia, but ultimately came up short to be eliminated in the group stage.<\/p>\n
Winning the toss and batting first multiple players made positive starts. Nihar Parmar<\/a> (24) and Hugo Tani-Kelly (20) looked good to start but Ireland chipped away to have Japan in a spot of bother at 74 for four in the 20th over.<\/p>\n A strong partnership of 68 between Charlie Hara-Hinze (57) and captain Kazuma Kato-Stafford (24) brought Japan back into the contest, but Ireland seized initiative again to dismiss both as Japan slipped to 162 for seven in the 40th over.<\/p>\n The Irish had not counted on Gabby Hara-Hinze<\/a> coming in at nine and completely shifting momentum as he walloped an entertaining 44 from just 29 balls, leading a 62-run partnership with Skyler Nakayama-Cook, who made a solid 30 from 37 balls.<\/p>\n A total of 247 for nine at the halfway mark put Japan firmly in the contest, but knowing they would have to bowl well to earn a first ever World Cup win.<\/p>\n Despite a gallant effort from captain Kato-Stafford<\/a> (two for 42), and support from Timothy Moore<\/a> (two for 30), Ireland squeezed home six wickets down with 12 balls to spare to book their place in the Super Six and leave Japan with a token game against Tanzania to round off the World Cup experience.<\/p>\n The game was also notable as Charlie Hara-Hinze picked up his 35th international wicket at Under 19 level, making him the leading wicket-taker of all time for the Men’s Japan Under 19 National Team.<\/p>\n All times are Japan Standard Time. All matches are 50 Overs.<\/span><\/p>\n All matches will be available to watch on ICC TV and the JCA Social Media platforms will be active with plenty of content and behind the scenes clips – so be sure to follow closely!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Men’s Japan National Team put on a monumental fight against Ireland at the Under 19 World Cup in Windhoek, Namibia, but ultimately came up short to be eliminated in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":33258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles","category-mens-national-team-u19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33267,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257\/revisions\/33267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPN-v-IRE-2-1024x683.jpg\")
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