Ireland U19 v Canada U19 – ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier - Match Recap
Canada Under-19s 37 (25 overs) v Ireland Under-19s 40 (13 overs) -
Ireland Under-19s won by 5 wickets (with 222 balls remaining)
Ireland Under-19 beat Canada by five wickets in the ongoing International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) World Cup Qualifiers in a game played at Limavady Cricket Club, Limavady.
After winning the toss, Canada decided to bat first aiming to put enough runs on the board to give Ireland a run for their money, however, on the first delivery of the innings, Shane Charles Getkate grabbed a wicket for his side when he trapped the Canadian
opener Akash Maheshkumar Shah right in front of stumps, causing the batsman to be given leg-before-wicket without scoring a run.
The early wicket left Canada rattled and before they could recover from the loss, the Canadians lost another wicket in the third over when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/NR-Kumar-c2129 failed to prevent a sensational delivery bowled by Getkate from ramming into his stumps. The batsman
walked back to the pavilion after putting just a run on the board from five deliveries. At the time of his departure the team had managed to score only two runs.
After taking the tally to 10 runs, Canada lost another wicket when number three batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nikhil-Dutta-c79597, after scoring a run off 18 deliveries edged a delivery bowled by Graeme John McCarter straight to wicketkeeper Niall David S Hodgins.
This lacklustre batting performance by Canada helped Ireland enforce a dominant role in the match by exhibiting flamboyant bowling, preventing the opposition from scoring runs.
However, Canada were in for a surprise as McCarter took two more consecutive wickets in the same over which completed his outstanding hat-trick in the match as he dismissed Darren http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammed-Aleem-c77512 Ali without letting the batsmen open
their scoring accounts.
With five wickets down on 10 runs, this was the worst start Canada made in the tournament. The Canadians desperately needed to get out of the situation as they had plenty of overs left in the game to play.
On 17 runs, the side suffered another loss in the 10th over when Kyle Leslie Tyrone Edghill after playing an innings of 10 runs off 25 deliveries fell to McCarter by edging the ball to the wicketkeeper.
The Canadians had no clue how to get out of this tough situation as wickets kept falling at random where the batsmen failed to challenge the bowlers they were up against.
In the end, the whole side fell after playing 25 overs in which they placed 37 runs on the board at a run rate of 1.48.
With a target of 38 runs to chase in 50 overs, Ireland had all the experience and talent in the world to win the game and knowing this the batsmen came out on the crease aiming to humiliate http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748 by winning the game in an astounding manner.
The Irish openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Robert-Cowdrey-c60631 der Merwe scored seven runs each before losing their wickets to the Canadians. After the openers, the middle-order batting line-up’s vulnerability was exposed when Canada took three wickets in quick succession,
putting http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ireland-c751 in a spot of bother.
However, the target was just too small to prevent the Irish from overcoming as Adam Stephen A Coughlan and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shane-Charles-Getkate-c89657 steered their side to a blissful victory with 222 balls left in the game.
GJ McCarter from Ireland was named as the Man of the Match for taking five wickets in his 10 overs by conceding eight runs.
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