Denmark v Israel - European Championship Division One T20 - Match Recap
Denmark won the game convincingly and comfortably by 8 wickets while chasing down the target of 95 runs against Israel, yesterday, July 19 at Farmers Cricket Club Ground, St http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Christopher-Alroy-Martin-c50714. The clash was a Group B match of the European Championship Division One
T20 tournament.
Winning the toss, Denmark decided to field first. Accepting the invitation to bat, Israel started their innings with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yefet-Nagavakar-c98265 and Daniel Hyman as openers. The reshuffled opening pair also failed as Nagavakar fell for just one run.
The one-down batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danny-Hotz-c52377, followed Nagavakar’s footsteps and lost his wicket after adding just one run in the innings. Both played three balls each.
However, the top-order batsman, Eshkol Solomon, combined with Hyman to contribute some good runs to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Israel-c2925’s innings. Having forged a partnership of 36 runs, Solomon fell in the 9 over. He scored 18 off 28 balls with the help of 2 fours.
The next two batsmen, Josh Evans and Herschel Gutman, fell on a duck each, while another middle-order batsman, Itamar Kehimkar, could score only 2.
Hyman stayed on the crease till the 13th over and scored 19 off 29 deliveries.
In the lower batting order, Yaniv Razpurker and Shailesh Bangerra played somewhat better. Razpurker scored 26 from 23 balls including one four and one six while Bangerra made 11 off 15 deliveries.
David Massil and Raymond Talkar made 5 and 2 each before the 20-over innings came to an end.
Including 9 extras, Israel totalled 94 for the loss of 9 wickets. Their run rate had been 4.70 per over.
In the bowling line-up of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aftab-Ahmed-c944 bowled one player each.
With a small target of 95 to achieve, Denmark took a marvellous start. The opening pair, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Frederik-Andreas-Klokker-c58029 and Shehzad Ahmed, piled up match-winning 61 runs in 10.1 overs. However, Ahmed fell after scoring 18 runs off 26 balls.
The one-down batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rizwan-Tariq-Mahmood-c85497, also played well and added 15 runs in the innings.
Klokker was the protagonist who flexed his muscles to accomplish an easy victory for Denmark. He scored 44 runs not out from 43 deliveries with the help of 7 fours.
Denmark met the target in just 15 overs and won the game by 8 wickets. Their run rate was 6.40 per over.
Among the bowlers of Israel, Evans and Gutman took 1 wicket each for the losing cause.
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