Uganda v Ghana - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Africa Region Division One Twenty20: Uganda beat Ghana by 4 wickets - Match recap
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Winning the toss, Ghana elected to bat first. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-K-Vifah-c65836 and Francis Bakiweyem opened the innings in a pathetic way. Both the batsmen fell for just 6. Vifah hit a boundary while his partner could not open his account. These two wickets proved to be a mega
success for Uganda as they halted the way of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Griffith-c919 score after wrecking the opening duo.
The one-down, Samson Awiah, followed his predecessors and lost his wicket for just 1 run. It seemed that the Ghana would not cross even fifty but the middle-order steered their side to make a comeback in the game.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Obed-Harvey-c80131 played a marvellous innings and build up a strong partnership of 72 runs for the 4th wicket. Mensah made 35 off 38 balls while Harvey scored 36 from 37 deliveries - both were bowled in 16th and 19th over respectively.
None of the successive batsmen could reach double figures except http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Moses-Kofi-Anafie-c77757, Julius Mensah and Obed Harvey.
In the lower batting order, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mark-Bawa-c74546 contributed 3, 1 and 0 respectively.
Thus, Ghana piled up 101 runs for the loss of 8 wickets at the end of the 20 overs. Their run rate was recorded as 5.05 per over.
Among six bowlers who bowled for Uganda, only two succeeded in taking wickets. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Charles-Waiswa-c50401 and Brian Masaba grabbed 2 and 3 wickets respectively.
Uganda started chasing down the target of 102 with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Arthur-Solomon-Kyobe-c45985 as openers. The opening pair collapsed badly. Mukasa fell on a duck while Kyobe scored just 8 runs.
The next three batsmen flexed their muscles to lash match-winning runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Davis-Karashani-Arinaitwe-c53318 scored 24, 26 and 25 respectively.
The lower-order trio, including Ivan Thawithemwira, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ronald-Ssemanda-c86788, could not even reach double figures.
The match became thrilling in the death overs as the needed runs and remaining balls were going juxtapose. However, Arinaitwe kept firing till the end and wrested victory for his side on the second last ball of the innings.
In the bowling line-up of Ghana, Vincent Ateak and Bawa took wickets each while Bagabena and Harvey bowled one player each.
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