Belgium v Israel: European Championship Division One Twenty20 – Match Recap
Belgium eased to victory over Israel by five wickets and 12 balls remaining in a Group B match of the European Championship Division One Twenty20, at the Les Quennevais, St Brelade in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jersey-c41001 on Friday, July 22, 2011.
The Israel team batted first and were unable to post a challenging target for the opposition, as they were bowled out for 106 runs in 19.3 overs. Only three batsmen in the team managed to reach double figures with the highest score coming from middle-order
player http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danny-Hotz-c52377. His score remained the highest of the match, but would have been disappointed to finish on the losing end.
Belgium did have some problems during the chase at the start of their innings, but won the match comfortably in the end. The team’s skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Simon-Newport-c90411, top scored the innings with an unbeaten 28 runs.
Newport won the toss for Belgium and opted to field first. He expected the pitch to offer some assistance for the bowlers in the first half of the game. This was exactly what happened, as the opposition batsmen struggled to cope with the conditions once
they came out to bat.
Israel were put on the back foot right from the start of their innings, as openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yefet-Nagavakar-c98265 and Daniel Hyman were dismissed without troubling the scorers, leaving the team at 2/4.
Josh Evans tried to steady the innings for Israel, as he collected 17 runs off 21 balls, but was unable to make most of the start he got to his innings and was the third man to be dismissed in the innings.
Hotz walked out in the middle to join Eshkol Solomon and the pair tried to steady the ship for their side. They put together 36 runs for the fourth-wicket partnership, guiding their team to a steady position.
However, Solomon failed to carry onto the start he got to his innings and was sent back to the pavilion after adding 26 runs to the total from 23 balls. This saw a collapse for the middle-order, as wickets started to tumble in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Israel-c2925 innings.
Hotz tried to bat until the end, but was dismissed after scoring 40 runs off 45 balls with the help of one boundary. There was no significant impression from any of the lower-order players, as the team was dismissed for 106 in the final over of the innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shafiq-c89281 was the pick of the bowlers, finishing with 2/7 in his four-over spell.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Nadeem-Khan-c77119 guided the team to a five-wicket win in the end.
They scored 28 and 24 runs in their respective outings, getting the target in 18 overs. Israel’s Evans was the only bowler to cause problems for the Belgium team, as he picked up three wickets in the match.
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