ICC World Cricket League Division Four, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Usa-c759 defeated Nepal by 55 runs
Sushil Nandkarni blazed again with the bat bagging USA its third victory in four games of the ICC World Cricket League Division Four at Ovale di Rastignano, Pianoro on Thursday, August 19. Chasing USA’s 50-overtarget of 203 for 8, the whole team of Nepal was bowled out by clinical bowling performance for just 148.
Sushil Nandkarni, the outclass performer of the league, blazed with the bat on the day when most of his teammates were off-colour. The USA amassed a match-winning 203 for 8, from their allotted fifty overs. Sushil Nandkarni scored an 85-ball 64 that earned him his third man-of-the-match title. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sharad-Vesawkar-c89750 shared two wickets each.
None of the Nepali batsman could face the USA attack confidently except the skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Paras-Khadka-c80740. He scored 44 runs from 73 balls followed by Dyanendra Malla with 34 off 72. Six of the Nepali batsmen fell for single digit scores as the USA set up a 55-run win against them. Muhammad Ghous and Usman Shuja picked up three wickets apiece while Orlando Baker took 2 for 32 in his quota of 10 overs. Kevin Darlington, though failed to claim a single wicket but he was the most economical bowler of the day conceding only 17 runs in his 9-overs spell at an economy rate of less than 2 runs an over.
Earlier, the captain of USA, Steve Massiah, after winning the toss opted to bat first. A change in the batting order of USA was made as the opener Sushil Nandkarni was shifted to No 5 position. Of the opening duo, featuring Orlando Baker and Wicketkeeper batsman, Carl Wright, the former went back to the pavilion on the second ball of the match without scoring a single run. Baker was beaten on Amrit Bhattarai’s good length ball with a bit of away swing and the ball got thin outside edge into the gloves of wicketkeeper, Mahesh Chhetri.
After Baker’s dismissal, the keeper, Carl Wright, and the captain of USA, Steve Massiah, posted 31 runs from the next seven overs. In the eighth over, Binod Das earned his side, a second success, trapping opener, Carl Wright, leg before on a slightly slower but a full length ball that the batsman tried to defend but the ball smacked him low on his front pad. Wright scored 16 runs off 20 deliveries plundering two boundaries and a lofty six.
A half-century partnership between skipper Steve Massiah and Lennox Cush eased the nerves of United States. A succession of sweetly timed boundaries set the side on its way to a respectable target. The partnership was worth 51 when, Basanta Regmi, broke it having Cush caught off his own ball. Cush scored 32 runs from 37 balls with the bulk coming from boundaries and a six. During his 37-ball stay at crease he smashed six muscular boundaries. He was soon followed by the skipper, Steve Massiah, and, Aditya Thayagarajan, as the USA faltered at 98 for 5. Massiah’s 53-ball 29 contained five boundaries.
With the wickets clattering at the other end, it was Sushil Nandkarni who took the initiative of a revival with a responsible innings. Nandkarni’s 65-ball thirty was solely compiled through singles and doubles without hitting a single boundary. Nandkarni opened up in the 45th over, looting http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nepal-c2965 batting line-up failed to reach and was rolled over for only 148 in the last over of their innings.
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