http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 v Afghanistan – Afghanistan fall on 152 runs – Match Update
Afghanistan could bolster only 152 runs in response to 221 runs posted by United Arab Emirates
(UAE) in the eighth match of the ongoing International Cricket Council (ICC) Intercontinental Cup 2011-2013 at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
After getting clobbered by UAE, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 desperately needed a solid start to their innings to win the one-day fixture.
However, on 25 runs they lost their first wicket in the fifth over when 20-year-old opener Gulbodin Naib after playing a knock of 13 runs off 15 deliveries was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Arshad-Ali-c76710.
Then on the penultimate delivery of the 11th over, opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ahmed-Raza-c42350. The batsman departed after playing a knock of 31 runs off 28 deliveries.
At the time of this wicket, Afghanistan had managed to post 61 runs on the board for the loss of two wickets.
Disaster struck when in the next over Afghanistan lost their skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Elle-Hennadige-Shadeep-Nadeeja-Silva-c55901.
With three wickets down for 63 runs, things were not looking good for the match favourites as they needed to bat with more consistency to overcome the target set by the rivals.
The way Afghanistan were batting this 50-over contest was turning into a 20-over event as on the penultimate delivery of the 20th over Afghanistan lost their fourth wicket when middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Nabi-c77111 was caught behind by Amjad Ali
off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vikrant-Shetty-c95283 after putting only nine runs on the board.
When the Afghan score was 89 runs they suffered the loss of their fifth wicket when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Shahzad-c77324 was caught by Sharif Asadullah off the bowling of Shetty. The batsman managed to play a knock of 13 runs off 45 deliveries before finding his way back to
the pavilion.
With wickets falling at random, it was a hefty knock of 33 runs by 24-year-old right-hand batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asghar-Stanikzai-c1094, which kept Afghanistan’s hopes alive of making a comeback in the match.
However, he could not help the side overcome the tally at hand as Afghanistan failed to subdue their opponents in the match and lost the game by 69 runs.
From UAE, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khurram-Khan-c71386 took three wickets while Shetty, Ahmed Raza and Silva grabbed two wickets each.
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