Austria v Gibraltar - European Championship Division One T20 - Match Recap
Austria defeated http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Guernsey-c40999 Rovers Athletic Club Ground, Port Soif.
Gibraltar won the toss and elected to field first, inviting Austria to bat. Austria started their innings with Lakmal Kasturiarachchige and Simpson-Parker as openers. The start was disappointing as the first two wickets fell after adding just 4 runs to the
tally. Kasturiarachchige hit a four, while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Parker-c80761 could not open his account.
The one-down batsman, Erwin Grasinger, followed the same route and lost his wicket for just 2 runs.
In the top-order, Benji Loader delivered a somewhat satisfactory performance as he scored 23 off 25 balls with the help of 4 boundaries. The next two batsmen, Amar http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naeem-c78451 and Syed Qamar, made 9 and 8 respectively.
In the middle-order of Austria, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Asif and Satyam Subhash played very well and contributed match-winning runs to their team’s total.
Asif was the top scorer with 35 runs from 22 deliveries. He hit 4 fours and a sterling six, while Subhash made 13 off 6 balls including 3 fours.
In the lower-order, Nandeep Soggi flexed his muscles to score 28 runs off 26 balls with the help of 3 boundaries.
The extravagant Gibraltar bowlers gave away 17 extra runs. Thus, Austria piled up 141 runs after being all out in 19.1 overs. Their run rate had been 7.35.
In the bowling line-up of Gibraltar, Aaron Bagiletto was the top wicket taker who bowled 3 players by losing 12 runs, while Ross Harkins and Matthew Hunter took two wickets each. Andrwe Reyes and Iain Latin grabbed one a piece.
With a handsome target to meet, Gibraltar started their innings in a shoddy way as the openers, Harkins and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kieron-J-Ferrary-c71445, scored 0 and 4 respectively.
However, the one-down Mark Bacarese, coupled with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-Farrell-c63833, stabilised the innings. Both the batsmen played tremendously and build up a strong partnership of 56 runs.
Farrell fell in the 12th over after scoring 24 off 24 balls. This marked the downfall of Gibraltar as none of the remaining batsmen could hold on to the crease and score well.
Iain Latin, Kayron Stagno, Andrwe Reyes, Matthew Hunter, Jack Lutman and Aaron Bagiletto scored 4, 8, 1, 0, 10 and 2 respectively.
Bacarese stayed on the ground till the last ball and kept struggling for victory, but none of his playmates cooperated with him to achieve the success that was very near.
When Bacarese was batting on 66 runs and Gibraltar needed just 6 to win, the 20-over quota came to an end. He played 60 balls and hit 4 boundaries coupled with 2 sixes.
Gibraltar lost the close game by 6 runs.
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