Kenya v United Arab Emirates – ICC Intercontinental Cup, 2011-2013 - 1st Days Recap
United Arab Emirates 213 v Kenya 91/3 (22.5 ov)- Kenya trail by 122 runs with 7 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
On the first day of the International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 (UAE) made 213 runs at the end of their innings in the first day’s play at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi.
After winning the toss, the UAE chose to bat first, aiming to make maximum use of the batting conditions in Nairobi against the home side.
The 24-year-old opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdul-Rehman-c41625 alongside his 35-year-old opening partner Arshad Ali took a steady start as both batsmen played impressive shots making full use of the feet by going after bad deliveries at regular intervals.
Kenya drew first blood when striker http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bannur-Nagaraja-Ramesh-c47268 Premji Mepani.
Rehman hit four impressive boundaries before he was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DS-Wesonga-c1404. The batsman had scored 23 runs off 64 deliveries.
However, the loss of the openers did not affect the UAE as they showed the might of their middle-order batting line-up when batsman Saqib Ali and skipper Khurram Khan took a defiant stand against the hosts, as they batted with exceptional talent and zeal,
preventing the hosts from grabbing another wicket.
With the two batsmen on the crease, the hosts clearly looked in a spot of bother as they had no answer to the daunting batting that was up against them. The batsmen toyed with the bowlers by nudging quick runs and then chose to go over the top at will.
The Kenyan bowlers were clearly running out of gas and the frustration was creeping up as the hosts needed to break the partnership to prevent the guests from posting a mammoth tally on the board.
Finally the 27-year-old left-arm bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/T-Mishra-c2629.
The Kenyan squad went ballistic after taking this wicket as they knew that they had got the wicket of the danger man.
In quick succession they grabbed the wickets of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khurram-Khan-c71386 piled runs on the other end.
However, UAE failed to prevent the vulnerability in their tail from getting exposed as none of the batsmen showed an impressive touch with the bat. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 was the lone warrior for UAE as he played a staggering innings of 85 runs off 143 deliveries which included
11 superb boundaries. The batsman was removed by Varaiya when he was caught by the Kenyan skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CO-Obuya-c1276.
Coming on to bat in the later part of the day, the hosts had lost three wickets after scoring 91 runs, trailing by 122 runs with seven wickets in hand.
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