ICC World Cricket League Championship - Swapnil Patil inspires United Arab Emirates to victory over Scotland – Match Update
An unbeaten knock of 55 runs from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cricket League Championship match 19th played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
The Scots were bundled out for 167 runs inside 48.5 overs in their innings. The hosts, on the other hand, chased down the total in 47.5 overs while losing six wickets in the process.
The toss went UAE’s way and their skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Amjad-Javed-c44094, made early inroads by taking the wickets of Kyle
Coetzer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DF-Watts-c1365 inside the first ten overs of the mandatory powerplay.
The visitors were forced on the back foot after the early loss. The Scots kept on losing wickets at regular intervals, and at one stage were 93 for six. Scottish batsmen never got off their strides until the 35th over, when Craig Wallace (40)
and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RM-Haq-c2336 (30) started a fight back.
The two batters launched a counterattack and it paid off for them, as the seventh wicket partnership fetched 56 runs. However, the UAE bowlers bounced back strongly after Wallace got out and restricted http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 to 167
UAE started nervously losing both openers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saqib-Ali-c88733 was caught off Safyaan Sharif’s bowling in the seventh over.
UAE skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shaiman-Anwar-Butt-c89533 cost the batsman his wicket. The hosts were in all sorts of trouble with four of their top batters back in the hutch with just 35 runs on the board.
Patil, the wicket-keeper batsman, made his way to the centre at the demise of his skipper. The wicket-keeper along with Anwar stabilised the innings, as the duo amassed 82 runs for the fifth wicket.
Patil stood resolute even after the departure of Anwar (58). The right-handed batsman eventually led his side to victory by smashing a boundary on the penultimate delivery of 48th over bowled by Safyaan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sharif-c89762.
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