http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Intercontinental Cup One-Day - Match Recap
Kenya 230/9 (50 ov) UAE 233/ 6 (46.4 ov) - UAE won by 4 wickets
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 registered their first win of the International Cricket Council’s Intercontinental Cup as they held their nerves to trounce over Kenya by four wickets. The game that was played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
saw the visitors overcoming the odds to hand the home team a defeat.
Kenyan batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Amjad-Ali-c44076 (60) saw UAE through.
Kenyans lost the toss and were forced to bat first; Patel and Runish Gudhka came out to face the early heat by UAE’s bowlers. The openers failed to deliver for the African side as at the score of 11 in the 3rd over, Gudhka was dismissed by Shoaib
Sarwar. Gudhka edged a delivery, which the wicket-keeper, Abdul Rehman, took quite comfortably.
Patel, on the other hand, was in supreme form, the opener was accompanied by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CO-Obuya-c1276, captain of the Kenyan cricket team. Obuya was finding it difficult to score off the bowlers while his partner at the other end made it look easy.
Obuya was the second man to be dismissed as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Amjad-Javed-c44094 trapped him in front of the stumps. The Kenyan skipper could only add nine runs to his tally and was dismissed in the 10th over.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657, stabilized Kenyan innings. The duo complimented each other very well all throughout their partnership, which fetched 111 runs for the home side and
extended the score to 147.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Elle-Hennadige-Shadeep-Nadeeja-Silva-c55901 put an end to the stand between Mishra and Patel in the 32nd over. The left-arm spinner darted in a faster one which caught the batsman in front of wickets, thus giving the umpires no choice but to adjourn the batsman lbw. Mishra
made a valuable contribution of 51 runs from 67 balls.
UAE bowlers bounced back into the game and took couple of quick wickets but the seventh and eight wicket stands of 22 and 27 runs respectively, powered Kenyans to a competitive 230.
The Arab side did not get off to a start that they would have hoped for. Opening batsman, Bakthiyar Palekar was back in the dressing room in the first over after scoring eight runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajesh-Lalji-Bhudia-c83524 claimed his wicket.
The second wicket stand of 85 runs between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Arshad-Ali-c76710 and Amjad Ali laid down the solid foundation for the visitors. UAE were in a commanding position with 93 on board from 20.5 overs and having nine wickets in hand. However, the Kenyans showed fighting
spirit and took three wickets, including Amjad and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Arshad-c45521, within a span of five overs, while giving away 17 runs.
UAE’s skipper Khurram, led from the front as he took the burden on his shoulders and revived the innings with the assistance of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shaiman-Anwar-Butt-c89533, whose cameo of 34 runs came to an end in the 38th over.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdul-Rehman-c41625 continued from where Anwar left, as he and his skipper put on 44 runs for the sixth-wicket. Rehman got out on the second ball of the 47th over, but by that time UAE were in touching distance of the total.
Amjad Javed finished of the match in style by smacking Lucas Oluoch for a boundary and grabbing a much deserved win for the United Arab Emirates.
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