Canada and USA secure impressive wins: Cricket News Update
The International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748, secured easy wins in their
opening fixtures on Monday, July 18, 2011.
The tournament began with the series opener between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bermuda-c2853. The bout, however, came to a crucial ending after Bermuda secured a close win of 3 wickets with just 3 balls to spare.
In contrast, the following two matches, on the same day, saw some impressive performance by the North American participants, USA and Canada.
Following the opener, the second match kicked off between USA and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Suriname-c3013. The match was staged at the USA’s home turf, Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground, Lauderhill, Florida.
The game began after the hosts won the toss and chose to bat with the opening pair featuring http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gowkaran-Roopnarine-c60447.
The team’s batsmen delivered some impressive batting performance throughout the innings after posting a competitive total of 124 runs in 13 overs. On a whole, USA lost just two players.
The side’s opener, Roopnarine, contributed an impressive total to the side through an adequate total of 59 runs, remaining not out.
In response, the Suriname batsmen come out with some poor batting comeback after losing their opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vishaul-Singh-c95471, in the initial minutes of the second innings. However, the following order struggled to keep up the pace, as the American bowlers
dominated the batting side, earning quick wickets in the final moments of the match.
The bout finally came to a close after Suriname’s innings was brought to a close after putting up a disappointing total of 58 runs with a total loss of 6 wickets. USA managed to mark an impressive 50 runs win.
The pitch was then taken over by the Canadians, taking on Cayman Islands.
The Canadian side took off with some sluggish batting, after winning the toss and taking up batting.
The team’s opening batsmen came out with a slow start, after facing their first loss in the closing overs of the innings first half.
With the start of the third quarter, the team faced more trouble after the Cayman Islands bowlers managed to earn two more consecutive wickets. However, with some impressive contribution by the Canadian duo, skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705 Hansra accompanied with middle order
player http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Usman-Limbada-c2730, the team’s total was once again brought back on pace.
By the end of the Canadian innings, the team had secured a stable aggregate of 130 runs with a total loss of 8 wickets.
With a defensive response from the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Cayman-Islands-c2867 batsmen, the Canadian bowlers marked some early strikes on the batting line up that followed throughout the remaining session.
By the end of the second session, Canada managed to earn its impressive 64 runs win.
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