ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier, Canada Under-19 v Papua New Guinea Under-19 – Match Recap
Papua New Guinea (PNG) U-19 and Canada U-19 team took each other head on in the 28th fixture of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Under-19 World Cup Qualifier, 2011. The fixture was played on August 6, 2011 at Woodvale Road, Eglinton (neutral venue).
PNG’s Captain Christopher Kent won the toss and elected to field first. Rayyan Pathan and Akash Shah from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748 came out to open the batting innings for their team.
Canadians started off well as the opening partnership yielded 49 runs in 8.1 overs at a run rate of 6.00. Pathan was the 1st batsman to be dismissed by PNG in the 9th over. The opener managed to contribute 35 runs off 30 deliveries
and was replaced by Nitish Kumar.
Kumar and Shah partnered well and together they added 109 runs to the team’s total in 22.4 overs. Shah got lbw out at a delivery by Sese Bau in the 31st over after contributing 39 runs off 85 deliveries.
The most prominent performance from the Canadian side was the superb innings by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nitish-Kumar-c79751. He scored massive 150 runs off just 126 balls at a strike rate of 119.04 runs per over. His ton and a half comprised of 14 deliveries and 3 big hits out of the
park.
Apart from the 1st three batsmen, rest of the batting line-up failed to play any significant role. None of the remaining players could cross the single digit figures and kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
Canada scored 261 runs in 50 overs at the loss of 9 wickets. Norman Vanua, Sese Bau and Charles Amini of PNG dismissed 2 batsmen each.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Charles-Amini-c49702 came out to begin the batting innings for PNG.
They did not have a good start as the first wicket of Vanua fell in the 3rd over at a total of 4 runs. The ball edged towards the keeper and he got caught out after scoring just a single.
The top order failed to make any significant contribution and the chasing team looked in trouble. PNG had lost 3 wickets at a petty score of 13 runs in first 7 overs. Captain Christopher http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kent-c802 came out to bat at number 4 and played an amazing innings.
Kent’s massive knock of 166 runs off 131 deliveries at a strike rate of 126.71, strengthened team’s position and brought PNG back into the game. Middle order and lower order batsmen supported the skipper well and helped PNG complete its chase of 264 runs
in 49.4 overs at the loss of 6 wickets.
Papua New Guinea won the match by 4 wickets with 2 balls remaining.
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