World Cricket League: Europeans hammered their opponents on 2nd Day of the Tournament
Three matches were played on the second day of World Cricket League Division 1 being held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the 4th match of the league, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748 at Amstelveen by 69 runs, match was cut short by rain during the second innings and Duckworth-Lewis rule was applied to get the result of the match.
In 4th Match of the Tournament, Irish Captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hamid-Hassan-c1524 and Khaliq Dad were the pick of the bowlers with three and two wickets respectively.
Match was hit by rain and it was decided that ‘reserve day’ will be used for the match to complete. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 opened their innings on the next day. Afghans started the innings confidently but when it was time to cement the partnership 3 wickets fell in 2 overs, Afghans were 34 for 3 in 11th over. Shabbir and Asghar scored 49 runs on their stand of 4th wicket. After the fall of Asghar in 31st over, Afghans couldn’t come back in the game and they were all out on 198 in 48th over. Cusack took 5 wickets in the match and Poynter was declared as man of the match for his 78 runs.
In the second match of the day Scotland was able to defeat North American side Canada in the Duckworth Lewis rule applied match. Scotland won the toss and elected to bat first at VRA ground, Amstelveen. Scottish made a slower start with 50 runs on board in the 17th over of the match. They then put the accelerator on after the 30th over and took the total to 236 runs for the loss of 4 wickets. McCallum remained not out with 89 runs on 79 balls with help of 7 fours and 4 sixes. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Berrington-c47840 scored 67 runs for his side. Umer Bhatti bowled a magnificent spell of 10 overs and took 2 wickets for just 29 runs.
Canadian Innings was hit by showers twice; first stop wasn’t enough to cut the game short. At the end of the 21st over of the match, rain started pouring down the ground. Canada was 76/6 before the rain. Scotland was 86 runs ahead of Canadian side according to Duckworth-http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 won by 69 runs (D/L method). Goudie took 3 wickets in the match. McCallum was awarded Man of the Match for his 89 runs.
In last match of the day, Kenyan Captain won the toss against the hosts http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Cooper-c51561 scored 92 and 67 runs respectively. After the fall of first 3 batsmen, no one could stay on wicket and Dutch side ended up with 229 runs. Right arm Off-break bowler Kamande took 4 wickets for Kenyan side.
Kenyan side couldn’t negotiate Dutch bowling attack and the whole side went down for 112 runs in 30th over of the game. No Kenyan player scored more than 29 runs with only 5 players scoring in double figures. Kervezee was declared as Man of the Match of his magnificent 92 runs innings.
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