Fast bowler Hamid Hassan helped Afghanistan take control of the match against Canada – Cricket News Update
Afghanistan’s fast bowler, Hamid Hassan, helped his team take over the 4-day match against Canada by taking out 7 Canadian batsmen. The defending champion Afghanistan met Canada in the 4-day match of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Intercontinental Cup at Maple Leaf North-West
Ground, King City.
Afghanistan could not play very well as all the Canadian bowlers bowled the entire team out on a score of 293 runs in the 1st Innings. The defending champions were relying on their bowling attack to bring them back in to the game.
Fortunately the bowlers did not let the team down, while fast bowler, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 back in to the match which
may have slipped from their hands.
Canadian captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705 Hansra, won the toss and elected to field first. It proved to be a wise decision as the Canadian bowling attack ripped the Afghani batting line-up. The defending champions lost early wickets as both the openers were sent back to the
pavilion in just 8 overs.
The openers had contributed 9 runs each and got caught out in the 7th and the 8th overs respectively. It seemed that Canada has high chances of taking over the Afghani team but the 3rd wicket partnership added 82 runs to
the team’s score in 17.1 overs.
Afghani batsmen played sensibly after losing two early wickets. A total of 4 long and scoring partnerships were seen in the 1st Innings of Afghanistan, which strengthened the team’s position.
Despite these partnerships, Canadian bowlers managed to dismiss all the batsmen in just 81.1 overs, after putting up a total of 293 runs.
When http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748 started the batting innings, they looked confident, but their hopes of putting up a challenging total on the score-board were smashed by the deadly bowling of Hassan.
The 24-year-old bowler from Afghanistan took four top batsmen in just 11 overs, leaving the host team at a total of 21/4. Opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Gunasekera-c2231 was the first victim of Hassan’s bowling. He was dismissed at 10 runs in the 3rd over.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/H-Patel-c1519 followed the fellow opener and got caught out at Hassan’s delivery after contributing just 3.
The next four batsmen left in the same manner, contributing single digit scores, except the captain Hansra, who scored 19 runs off 47 deliveries.
Wicket-keeper Hamza Tariq was the last wicket taken by Hamid Hassan, who scored 4 runs and got caught out at the hands of wicket-keeper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Shahzad-c77324.
Off-spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Nabi-c77111 and fast bowler Hamid Hassan dismissed all the Canadian batsmen in 48 overs at a score of just 130. This brilliant piece of bowling from Hassan helped the Afghanistan team restrain the hosts to a petty total, giving the guests a
lead of 163 runs.
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