East Africa Premier League: Nile Knights beat Rift Valley Rhinos – Match Recap
Nile Knights defeated Rift Valley Rhinos by 4 wickets in a T20 game of East Africa Premier League on September 10 at Rift Valley Sports Club. It was a thrilling clash which the viewers enjoyed a lot.
Rift Valley Rhinos won the toss and elected to bat first with a view to utilise the batsmen-friendly pitch to their favour and post a mammoth target but all went wrong.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Prashanth-Srinivas-c82574 and Amardeep Singh opened the innings for their side. The start was worse as the first wicket fell on just 5. Singh could score only 1 run.
Srinivas was joined by the one-down batsman, Joseph Ochieng who was also looking out-of-form. However, the duo struggled to advance the innings and added 21 runs that included sterling six of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Srinivas-c2564 who lost his wicket after scoring 16 off 12 deliveries.
The Knights picked up the next two wickets without conceding even a single runs. Ochieng and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ramesh-Premji-Mepani-c83853 fell one after another, leaving their team on 26----the latter could not even open the duck.
The preceding two batsmen of the middle order, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anil-C-Patel-c44715, also followed the footprints of their predecessors as they contributed just 3 and 2 runs respectively.
The lower-order batters displayed some resistance against the furious bowlers of the Knights. Chris Sterling played a good innings and lashed 22 runs off 36 deliveries with the help of 2 fours. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Joseph-Oduol-Angara-c69418 added 13.
Sterling and Angara were playing well but the time did not allow them to continue their firework as the 20-over quota came to an end.
For the loss of 8 wickets, the Rhinos could achieve a meager total of 79 runs with the run rate of 3.95 per over.
In the bowling department of the Knights, Ivan Baidhua and Frank Nsubuga took 2 wickets each while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stuart-Clark-c2591 Chunara bowled out one player each.
In pursuit of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Arthur-Solomon-Kyobe-c45985
and the one-down, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Franco-Nsubuga-c57307, fell on duck each.
Kebba was joined by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dennis-Arthur-Musali-c53612 and the both added 12 runs before the former fell for 20 off 19 balls.
The middle-order batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Davis-Karashani-Arinaitwe-c53318, was the protagonist of the day as he took a tremendous start, thwarting all the bowling tactics of the rivals and scoring courageously till touching the victory.
No other batsman except Musali, who made 11, could get double figures. Muhamza and John Tumusiime scored 5 and 1 respectively while Asadu Seiga could not even open the duck.
Arinaitwe was the only batsman who kept fighting till the end and lashed 40 runs off 50 balls to steer his side to win the game in the last over.
Among the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 grabbed 1 wicket each.
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