Owais Shah steers Essex to win against Glamorgan - Friends Life T20 2011
Owais Shah, the dashing English batsman, scored a tremendous half-century to steer Essex to win a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Close-c51347 match against Glamorgan, Today, June 22. The match of the Friends Life T20 2011 tournament was held at Cardiff.
Owais lashed 60 runs off 45 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes to wrest a last minute victory for his side.
Winning the toss, Glamorgan elected to bat first. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alviro-Nathan-Petersen-c43849 opened the innings. However, their start was pathetic as the top three batmen fell for just 41.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wright-c98127 made 23 while Wallace compiled 22.
When Glamorgan had lost their top five batsmen for just 87 runs, Chris Cooke came and changed the fate of his side by scoring 34 off just 18 deliveries with the help of three towering sixes.
Thus, Glamorgan posted a target of 142 runs for Essex to chase down.
Essex took a sluggish start as the opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Owais-Alam-Shah-c80369 advanced the innings in a convincing way. The pair put together a partnership of 70 runs, consolidating the innings and taking their side
to the verge of victory.
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The match kept exchanging hands till the end.
The competition turned to be rip-roaring when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RN-ten-Doeschate-c2338 were at the crease.
Realising the sense of responsibility, the two batsmen marvellously clinched the last ball victory.
For his match-winning heroics, Owais was named as Man of the Match.
Shah had also lashed a match-winning 78 against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817 earlier, on June 9.
The 32-year-old right-handed batsman has 6 Tests, 71 ODIs and 17 T20Is to his credit with batting averages of 26.90, 30.56 and 24.78 in all three formats respectively.
Owais made his international debut against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 on 10 June, 2001. Despite being a good batsman, he has not gained due fame at the international level.
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