http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Under-19 World Cup Qualifier, Afghanistan Under-19 v Kenya Under-19 – Match Recap
The 27th Fixture of the ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifiers was played between Afghanistan U-19 and Kenya U-19 on August 6, 2011 at Limavady Cricket Club, Limavady (neutral venue).
Kenyan captain Kennedy Ochieng won the toss and elected to bat first. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 Vishram were the two openers to commence the batting innings for Kenya.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kenya-c752 started off well as the two openers put up a scoring 1st wicket partnership. This pair contributed 66 runs in 8.2 overs at a run rate of 7.92.
Najibullah Zardan from Afghanistan provided first breakthrough to his team and bowled out Allan in the 9th over. Allan scored 28 runs off 29 balls, including 1 boundary and 2 sixes.
Rahul Vishram was the highest scorer from Kenya as he contributed 59 runs off 40 deliveries. His knock was studded with 5 boundaries and 2 sixes. This dangerous player was dismissed in the 15th over when he got caught out at the hands of Yamin
Ahmadzai at a delivery by Shir Shirazi. The last three batsmen to be dismissed were http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 and Harrison Angila. They left consecutively in 19th, 20th and 21st overs.
Kenyan team managed to put up a total of 154 runs in complete 24 overs at the loss of 5 wickets. Only 8 extra runs were given away by the bowling side. Shirazi was the most productive bowler for Afghanistan as he dismissed 2 players by giving away 33 runs.
Afghanistan U-19 team were given a target of 155runs to be chased in 24 overs at a required run rate of 6.41 runs per over.
The right-handed opening Duo, Javed Ahmadi and Abdur Mangal started the chase for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745. They started off fine in terms of scoring early runs but also lost an early wicket in the 3rd over.
The 16-year-old Abdur Mangal got caught out at the hands of Karim at a delivery by Ndandason in the 3rd over. He was dismissed at a duck after facing 4 deliveries.
This was the only fall of wicket Afghanistan Under-19 team saw. Hashmatullah Shaidi, the left-handed batsman replaced Mangal and together with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Javed-Ahmadi-c66518, led Afghanistan towards victory.
Both of these young batsmen played tremendously well and remained unbeaten till the end of their batting innings. Ahmadi bashed an amazing knock of 86 runs off just 51 deliveries at a massive strike rate of 168.62. His innings was studded with 6 boundaries
and 5 big hits out of the park.
Shaidi on the other hand, supported Ahmadi and the team well and contributed 63 runs off 58 deliveries. His innings included 7 boundaries which raised his strike rate to an impressive figure of 108.62.
The Afghani team completed the target in 18.4 overs at the loss of just 1 wicket and won the match by 9 wickets.
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