Kuwait Cricket

OMAN OVERCOME THE SPIRITED SINGAPORE CHALLENGE

Kuwait City April 1, 2010

In the second match played at Hubara ground, Ahmadi, the experienced Oman SIDE, playing professional cricket, prevailed over the spirited Singapore challenge and coasted a marvelous victory. Batting first, Singapore scored 174 runs in their allotted 50 overs. Munish Arora their captain was the top scorer with 43 runs and was a pillar of strength and played some classic square cuts in his brief stay ,

. Opener Chetan Suryavamshi scored a patient 23 runs while Promodh Raja struck a valuable 25 runs and Narendra Reddy chipping with 21 runs which gave some stability to the Singapore innings. Awal Khan the fast bowler of Oman, bowled magnificently to capture 4 wickets for just 29 runs.

Awal Khan Man of the match award getting from Mr. Shahriyar Khan

Singapore struck early, as the hard hitting Hemin Desai was back in the pavilion quite early but left handed Vaibhav Watgoankar and Deep Trivedi played sensibly well by rotating the strike and punishing the loose deliveries to the fence. The strongly built Vaibhav excelled in his drivers and rocked back to cut the short pitched deliveries to the fence. Vaibhav struck a polished 60 runs and Deep Trivedi scored 45 runs. It was Adnan Ilyas, the middle order batsman who mastered the Singapore bowlers by hitting a quick fire 52 runs. Saad Januja & Dharmichand Mulewa bowled well for Singapore. Awal Khan was rightly declared man of the match for his bowling performance.