Cameron White sets the example for Australia

Australia's captain Cameron White produced a mighty performance to maintain his team's position as favourites for the ICC Under-19 World Cup. In their last round robin match White's unbeaten 156 led to Australia scoring an unassailable 335/5 in their 50 overs.

White added 212 for the fourth wicket with Daniel Christian (93), then "this very mature capable leader," as described by his coach Wayne Phillips, juggled his varied attack to bowl out Scotland for 106.

The 18-year-old, who has already played a season for Victoria, made his runs in just 121 balls, with each successive fifty coming quicker than the last.

Meanwhile, Scotland head to Auckland for the Plate competition with coach Mike Hendrick unhappy. "We've got to pull our fingers out and do better than that," he stormed.

In contrast Australian counterpart Phillips couldn't be more pleased with the place his side is in.

"Our plans were to win every game deep into the tournament and at this stage that's exactly what we're doing," he told CricInfo.

"We've got a little bit of flexibility in our line-up which will allow us to have options," he continued. "Part of the selection process was to provide us with options; that's a handy asset to have," he said.

Australia were predictably always on top in this game, although when Harmanjit Singh had Shaun Marsh caught by impressive leg-spinner Moneeb Iqbal the score was an uncomfortable 48/2 after 9.5 overs.

However, when Christian, also 18, came together with his skipper soon after, Scotland's bowling wilted.

Effortless pulls and drives constituted most of the runs, with a total of seven on-side sixes being smited by the pair.

When Scotland batted the Australian spinners, Xavier Doherty (4-15), Jarrad Burke (0-10) and Beau Casson (3-18) had too much variety and guile for them.

A series of quicker balls, followed by flighted deliveries, each heavily spun, accounted for the Scots' middle and lower order, after impressive Jason Gillespie lookalike Aaron Bird (2-23) had made the early breakthrough.

But it was "a special innings by a pretty special young man," that impressed most as Phillips' highly-fancied team remain as the team New Zealand coach Mark Greatbatch amongst others most fears in the battle for the Under-19 World Cup title.