European Championship Division One Twenty20 Group B- Germany v Israel- Match Recap
In the European Championship Division One Twenty20, Group B encounter saw Germany emerge victorious over Israel by 7 wickets, a match played at the FB Fields, St Clement on July 21, 2011.
Like many other matches in the division, the match was called off due to heavy rain and had to be played on the reserve day.
Having won the toss, Israel opted to bat first. The opening pairing of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yefet-Nagavakar-c98265 and Daniel Hyman looked impressive, rotating the strike while hitting boundaries of loose deliveries.
They put on 61 for the first wicket, before Nagavakar fell, Leg before wicket to Shakeel Hassan for 24.
After that, Germans managed to put the brakes to the innings as they chipped in with wickets at regular interval.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danny-Hotz-c52377 was the next man to go on score of 82. Meanwhile, Hyman looked solid as he moved on to a confident half-century, with the help of 4 boundaries.
Soon as the Israel past the 100 run mark, Hyman fell to Kashir Haider. In trying to up the scoring rate, he looked to play an expensive shot but wicket-keeper Benjamin Das was quick to stump him.
The middle- order all got quick runs but fell immediately after reaching the double digit mark. This helped the Germans to restrict the batting side to under 150, after a good start by the Israeli openers.
At the end of their 20 overs, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Israel-c2925 could manage 138 on the board with Shailesh Bangera unbeaten on 11, while sipper, Herschel Gutman on 0, having faced a single ball.
The scorecard also included 22 extras, which is a cardinal sin in the shorter version of the game.
The Germans bowlers must be given credit in restricting Israel to a sub standard total, with the pick of the bowlers being, Rana- http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Javed-Iqbal-c66556 and Kashif Haider, who bowled economically while getting a brace each.
As the Germans openers came out for their chase, they began in the worst possible manner, as both fell to Eliezar Samson without making a single run, giving Israel, a dream start.
However, it was as best as it got for the bowling team, where after, they were shown a class piece of display by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asif-Khan-c46487, and middle-order batsman Imran Chaudhry.
When the two came on the crease, Germans were 31-3 and in lot of bother. Both took the attack to the bowlers, dealing in boundaries as they crashed the morale of their opponents to complete the target in just 16.5 overs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193, bettered him by just one run, making 60 not out of just 35 balls. He Struck 2 boundaries and 3 huge sixes, all out of the park.
It was a sorry bowling scorecard, where only Samson held his head high taking all three wickets that fell in Germany’s innings.
Israel are yet to open their account in the tournament so far, whereas German march up to no 4 spot in the table.
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