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REPORT DAY 6 |
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MALAYASIA UPSETS HOT FAVORITES UAE IN ACC ELITE TROPHY 2010
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Kuwait city April 6th, 2010 -------------------------------------------Photos by: Salman Kazmi |
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Malaysian squad with the officials after reaching to the semi final of ACC Trophy Elite 2010 |
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Malaysia eventually gave their supporters extra cause for celebration, with a two wicket win over fancied UAE to reach the semi finals of the ACC Elite trophy 2010 at Unity ground Ahmadi. It was a flamboyant victory, but a nervy, self-conscious one, and they only secured their place in the semi final in the last over.
With the wicket looking true, UAE captain decided to bat and Malaysia struck soon by dismissing both the openers Indika Sampath & Arshad Ali quickly and took control of the match after a disciplined fast bowling performance by veteran war-horse Suresh Navaratinam & Hassan Ghulam who ran through eh UAE innings. UAE at one stage were tottering at 70 for 7 but Salman Farooq & Shadeep slowly pushed the score to reach 116 when Shadeep was out. Salman & Shoib Sarwar played sensibly well to take the UAE total to 152 runs in the 42 over. Suresh Navaratinam took 4 wicket for 29 runs and Hassan Ghulam accounted for 3 wickets for 35 runs. |
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However, UAE have repeatedly shown themselves to be tenacious souls and Khuram Khan gambled in the opening overs by entrusting the new ball to Shoib Sarwar a young man with a bright future and high, easy action. Shoib responded to the challenge with a wicket of Rakesh Madhavan in the very first over and Qassim Zubair from the north end removed the dangerous Damith Warusavithana caught by Saqib Ali at short cover. |
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Shahriyar Khan awarding the Man of the match award to Suhan Kumar of Malaysia |
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Rattling from 15 for 2, young Faiz and captain Suhan Kumar steadied the Malaysian inning to 79 runs, both catching up with the run rate which stood at run a ball. Khurram bowled Ahmed Faiz for 43 well made runs against the run of play which opened up the match once again. His partnership with Suhan Kumar for the third wicket was worth 67 off 78 balls. UAE sensing victory now brought Arshad Ali who removed new man Anwar Aruddin for zero. Suhan Kumar, firm as a rock stood between UAE & victory and played a match winning knock of 65 runs while Hassan Ghulam remained not out with 20 runs.Zubair Qasim was the most successful bowler for UAE, capturing 3 for 36 runs.Suhan kumar was adjudged as Man of the match for his enterprising knock of 65 runs. |
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NEPAL SAILS INTO SEMI FINALS
HONG KONG KNOCKS OMAN TO REACH SEMI FINALS |
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Nepal the Top in Group-A will meet Malaysia in the semi final - Click by Salman Kazmi
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A hostile spell of fast bowling by Nepal speedsters triggered the collapse of Kuwait as they were bundled out for 119 runs in the ACC Elite trophy 2010 played at Hubara ground Ahmadi. Winning the toss, Nepal decided to let Kuwait use the pitch and the Nepal fast bowlers capitalized the damp pitch letting the bowl swing either way. |
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Sanjam & Binod Das bowled exceptionally well and the pitch favored the Nepalese attack. Saud Iqbal top scored with a gritty 26 runs while Saifullah batted well to score 21 runs. Saad Khalid was the other Kuwait batsman who made a plucky 24 runs to stay unbeaten |
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Sanjam was the pick of the bowlers by taking 4-26 while Binod Das accounted for 3-24. Mehaboob Alam, the left arm swing bowler picked 2 wickets for Nepal. |
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Sanjam Regmi (Nepal) getting the man of the match award - Click by Salman Kazmi |
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Nepal sealed the victory quite easily by winning the match by 9 wickets .
At KEC ground Doha, last ACC trophy champions Hong Kong edged the spirited Oman squad by a narrow margin of one wicket to reach the semi finals. In a rain affected match Oman batting first scored 168 runs. Loosing Hemin Desai earlier, Oman recovered through some magnificent batting display of Deep Trivedi and Vaibhav Wategoankar. |
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Nazakat Khan with his stylish knock --------------------------- Click by Travis Pittman |
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. Deep Trivedi a more stylish batsman than Vaibhav drove and cut with beautiful timing while Vaibhav was more aggressive.Trivedi top scored with 54 runs and Vaibhav made 37 runs.Moner Ahmed wrecked the Oman batting by taking 4 for 19 runs. Nadeem Ahmed claimed 2 wickets for 32 runs. Chasing 169 to win, Hussein Butt & Nasir Hameed played positive cricket and laid a good foundation. Nasir hit a polished 34 while Butt made 32 runs. It was young Nizakat Khan who plundered the Oman attack to strike a handsome 57 runs to guide Hong Kong to a remarkable victory. |
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Nizakat Khan was declared man of the match for his wonderful knock of 57 runs |
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Click by Travis Pittman |
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Syed Tariq claimed 3 wickets & Khalid Rasheed bowled well to claim 2 wickets for Oman.Nizakat Khan was declared man of the match for his wonderful knock of 57 runs |
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