Youth Baseball5 World Cup Day Two: Unbeaten France and Cuba book Super Round spots

World No 2 France and Cuba, ranked sixth in the world, secured a place in the WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup Super Round following the second day of play in Ankara, Türkiye.

Both teams are unbeaten with four wins from as many games and will finish the Opening Round on Thursday with one game each, against Australia and Malaysia respectively.

The chase for the two remaining Super Round spots in each group will go down to the last Opening Round games on Thursday. The top three teams in each group at the end of the Opening Round will go through to the Super Round while the bottom three teams in each group will play the Placement Round.

Day two started with Ghana claiming their first win of the tournament, beating Australia 4-0, 8-0. The world No. 13 also played Chinese Taipei and pushed the world No. 1 to three matches 12-3, 5-7, 4-2.

Australia played Mexico later in the day but couldn't find their way to home plate, going down 2-0, 2-0 for Mexico, who claimed their second win of the tournament from three games in Group B.

China beat Zambia in the second game of the day, but it wasn't easy with the game going into extras 9-0, 6-8, 13-0. It was also China's second win from three games in Group A.

Türkiye won their second game of the tournament in Group A, beating Malaysia 6-4, 5-2 before going down to group leaders Cuba 6-4, 10-0. Cuba also beat Tunisia in the last game of the day 8-0, 9-6 to maintain their unbeaten start in Group A whilst booking a place in the Super Round.

The top two teams in the world - Chinese Taipei and France - faced off at 13:00 and the world No. 2 Europe champions proved too good for the world No. 1, winning 10-4, 2-0. Les Blues found the going tougher against Korea later in the day, beating the No. 8 in the world 4-2, 4-5, 6-0 to maintain their unbeaten start to the tournament and booking a spot in the Super Round.

Chinese Taipei, meanwhile, bounced back later in the day to claim their second win of the tournament, beating Ghana in a thriller 12-3, 5-7, 4-2.