European Championship Division Three Twenty20 - Bulgaria v Estonia - Live Score and Update
Estonia 161 v Bulgaria 165 - Bulgaria won by 8 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
After losing their match earlier today in the European Championship Division Three Twenty20 tournament, Bulgaria bounced back by winning the game against Estonia by eight wickets at Hippodrome, Tallinn.
After losing the toss, Bulgaria were once again put in the field, and this time yet again they knew that they would have to bowl-out the opposition on a total which their batsmen could reach.
They made early inroads by grabbing the wicket of M Tammoja, who faltered after scoring five runs, at the time when Estonia had amassed a total of 23 runs on the board.
This wicket triggered a devastating and early batting collapse as wickets started going down sooner than what had been expected.
R Raud, MMR Obili and Mario Tammoja all went for 1, 1 and 0 runs, which exhibited the vulnerability of the middle-order.
Finally the arrival of skipper, TJ Heath, turned the tables around as he batted bravely against all odds, forging a very important partnership with P http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Robert-Cowdrey-c60631 Buuren on the other side of the pitch.
With 121 runs on the board, van Buuren became the fifth casualty of the day by getting the timber of his stumps shattered all over the place upon an impact from a delivery bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mirza-Saif-ur-Rehman-c76380 as the batsman departed after smashing 45 runs.
Heath then stayed unbeaten on 88 runs as the team pulled off a stupendous tally on the board for the loss of five wickets.
With a reachable total ahead of them, Bulgaria had an out of this world experience of bolstering 112 runs in the opening partnership between MJ Stewart and DL Trenev.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stewart-c91370, who spearheaded the batting onslaught, then became the first casualty of the day from his team when he was caught and bowled by MMR Obili after staggering an innings of 66 runs.
However, the side knew that they needed to play their 20-overs with zeal and confidence in order to reach the target.
The target was reached in 19.1 overs with DL Trenev not out on 59 and L Zanev on 11 runs.
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