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[MOD-MrMoose]

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Great to finish the tour off with a win!

Tour Match # 5
VS Scotland
Result:
UAE won by 6 wickets

The Match in a tweet: Alim takes 2 from 2 to end Scotland's innings. He will be on a hattrick when he bowls next.

Man of the Match: Sharad Hossein (UAE)
A wonderful 78 for the UAE Opener.

Our best:
Sharad Hossein - 78 from the opener after a catch in the field. Provided a wonderful platform for the successful change.

Kamal Qassem - One wicket and only conceded 6 runs in 5 overs. Wonderfully bowled from the offie. Also snagged a run out.

Kaliq Aziz - Two wickets and only conceded 30 runs from his 10 over. Wasn't needed with the bat.

Mu'adh Khaleel - The wheels khaleel taking 3 wickets and only conceded 36 runs in 10 overs.

Hana Hassan - A gutsy 36 and sees out the run chase.

Around the Grounds:
South Africa beat Pakistan by 33 runs.
Australia beat USA by 55 runs.

South Africa and Australia both with 4 wins promote.

We finish the week fifth with 2 wins.

Tour wrap to follow.

Trust in the process

[MOD-MrMoose]

Managed two wins this week but frustratingly finish 5th.

Thanks for tuning in for another week of my nonsense.

Tour Wrap

Results:
10 run loss to Australia.
7 wicket win over USA.
116 run loss to South Africa.
51 run loss to Pakistan.
6 wicket win over Scotland.

Ladder:
1st. South Africa 4 wins +0.8 NRR
2nd. Australia 4 wins +0.3 NRR
3rd. Pakistan 3 wins
4th. Scotland 2 wins +0.3 NRR
5th. UAE 2 wins -0.6 NRR
6th USA 0 wins

Now a look into how our lads performed individually this week:

Our Best Performers:
1. Sharad Hossein - 177 fantasy points from 3 matches and 1 Man of the Match
2. Kaliq Aziz - 172 fantasy points from 3 matches
3. Hud Sam - 149 fantasy poitns from 3 matches
4. Amir Alam - 148 fantasy points from 3 matches
5. Rais Armanjani - 146 fantasy points from 2 matches

The Shockers:
1. Nawfal Shad - 23 fantasy points from 2 matches
2. Ismael Saad - 25 fantasy points from 3 matches
3. Zavier Salman - 41 fantasy points from 3 matches

Most Runs Scored:
1. Sharad Hossein - 123 runs from 3 innings
2. Khayri Salah - 104 runs from 4 innings
3. Rahul Jabbar - 99 runs from 4 innings

Only one batsmen (Pakistan's Jahangir Badshah) made a century this tour.

Our highest score: Sharad Hossein's 78 against Scotland.
The most average: Hana Hassan had our best average for the tour with 44.5 (2 not outs helping that)
The MAXIMUM: Tour best for 6s hit was South Africa's Hashim Amla who hit 4 sixes in 4 innings. Rahul Jabbar was equal second with 3 maximums from 4 innings.

Most Wickets Taken:
1. Mu'adh Khaleel - 7 wickets for 126 runs from 3 matches and 180 balls
2. Amir Alam - 6 wickets for 146 runs from 3 matches and 180 balls
3. Hud Sam - 5 wickets for 119 runs from 3 matches and 180 balls

Best Figures:
Hud Sam's 4/45 against South Africa was our best bowling figures for the tour.
Only Scotland's Rollie Thunder managed a five fa with his 5/35 against USA.

Best Bowling Average:
Naturally taking the most wickets meant Khaleel had the best average, averaging a wicket every 18 runs conceded.

Mr Economical:
Kamal Qassem - economy rate of 3.16. His tour figures were 2/79 off 150 balls across 3 matches.

Best Fielder:
Both Jaul Ghayth and Sharad Hossein had 3 catches for the tour.

Kamal Qassem and Hud Sam both got 1 runout each for the tour.

Our Keepers:
Salman took the gloves in 3 matches and took 5 catches.
Talib took the gloves twice and had 2 catches and 2 stumpings.
Tour best was 5 catches from both Salman and Pakistan's Imad Younsi.
Talib's 2 stumpings was equal tour best with South Africa's Clement Rundell and USA's Pedro Campbell.

Tour Pitch Report:
1st Preference - Dry
Matches Played: 10
Toss Decision: Captains Chose to Bat First 5 out of 10 matches.
Win the Toss, Win the Game?: True in 5 of the 10 matches.
Bat First, Win the Game?: True in 8 of the 10 matches.
Ratings Schmatings: Higher rated team won in 7 of the 10 matches

2nd Preference - Slow
Matches Played: 4
Toss Decision: Captains Chose to Bat First 3 out of 4 matches.
Win the Toss, Win the Game?: True in 1 of the 4 matches.
Bat First, Win the Game?: Not true at all in the 4 matches.
Ratings Schmatings: Higher rated team won in 1 of the 4 matches.

3rd Preference - Crumbling
Matches Played: 1
Toss Decision: Bat First was the decision.
Win the Toss, Win the Game?: True on this occasion.
Bat First, Win the Game?: Tue on this occasion. Australia won after they posted 211 and rolled USA for 156.
Ratings Schmatings: Higher rated team won on this occasion.

Humid weather every day of the tour except Thursday when it was a glorious Sunny Day.

As always, I am human, so apologies for any errors in the above data.

That's another season of Nat. Senior Tours - just hold on, we're going home.

But alas, there is still national cricket next week.
Our shining lights and the future of our nation tour next week. Games start 0530 FTP time.
Tune in from Monday to support the lads and the management team (Hepps, Penky, the Bug and the Bird).

For those who have read this far, my sincere apologies.

Much love. Happy FTPing.

May all your youth pulls be handsome and your academies upgraded.

[Penky]

Great write up Moose as always
We've got the same top 2 pitches in our tour, but Flat instead of Crumbling, so some of those stats are interesting for us!

[heppa]

EB dropped my third UAE senior NT, so I bought another - Imtiyaz Alim

[MOD-MrMoose]

Let's do the time warp again.

It's NATIONAL TOUR TIME!

We won the rights to host this T20 Div. 3 Tour and have asked England to host for us and they kindly obliged.

Nat Twenty20 3
Hosted in England by UAE
Pitch Preference in Order: Hard, Flat, Dry.

All matches are at 10:00 FTP Time.

Round 1: 26 Jul 2021 10:00
Vs Kenya @ Relegation reporbates CG
Dry Pitch and Currently Forecasted to be Sunny
National T20 Match History: 5 UAE wins, 6 UAE losses and 1 draw
Last Time we Met (in a Nat. T20): Kenya won by 45 runs (31/12/2020)

Round 2: 27 Jul 2021 10:00
Vs Zimbabwe @ Ffoh CG
Hard Pitch and Currently Forecasted to be Cloudy
National T20 Match History: 5 UAE wins vs 5 UAE Losses
Last Time we Met (in a Nat. T20): Zimbabwe won by 81 runs (12/4/2021)

Round 3: 28 Jul 2021 10:00
Vs Ireland @ Bedfordshire Jats CG
Dry Pitch and Currently Forecasted to be Cloudy
National T20 Match History: 10 UAE wins vs 9 UAE losses
Last Time we Met (in a Nat. T20): Ireland won by 6 wickets (06/10/2020 - World Cup Match)

Round 4: 29 Jul 2021 10:00
Vs Scotland @ bluekipper8878 CG
Dry Pitch and Currently Forecasted to be Sunny
National T20 Match History: 8 UAE wins, 10 UAE losses, 1 draw
Last Time we Met (in a Nat. T20): Scotland won by 3 runs (14/4/2021)

Round 5: 30 Jul 2021 10:00
Vs South Africa @ Camberwell Carrots CG
Hard Pitch and Forecasted to be Humid
National T20 Match History: 10 UAE wins vs 7 UAE losses
Last Time we Met (in a Nat. T20): South Africa won by 6 wickets (15/4/2021)

Touring Squad

Player - Home Club - National T20 Caps

Kamal Qassem - Wonder bo wonder Krieket - 20
Khayri Salah - Achmid’s Soul - 10
Rahul Jabbar - One Man Rock Band - 8
Amir Alam - Bielsa's Babes - 9
Jaul Ghayth - The Bengals - 4
Sharad Hossein - Illawarra Dragons CC - 3
Imtiyaz Alim - Illawarra Dragons CC - 3
Kaliq Aziz - Blaze of Glory - 3
Mu'adh Khaleel - jacko’s XI - 3
Hana Hassan - Marvellous XI - 2
Nawfal Shadi - Ashburn CC - 2
Kamal Salah - Groundfielders - Yet to Debut
Ubaid Mahmood - Space Wolves - Yet to Debut
Alam Nu'man - High Voltage - Yet to Debut
Cemal Ma'mun - Mighty Tigers 2nd XI - Yet to Debut
Ismael Armanjani - Caterham Crusaders - Yet to Debut
Shaquille Rahman - Chingford Warriors - Yet to Debut
Rais Armanjani - BgUINNES RAMs - Yet to Debut

A bit of a changing of the guard with a few senior lads being left out of the squad. 9 debutants this tour and 11 of the 18 are under 30 years old. Lets hope we can get some wins together and have a good tour.

Tune in every day at 1000 for all the action.

Trust in the process

[Penky]

Best of luck guys Hope Shadi has a good one!

[heppa]

Good luck lads. I'll be following

[Penky]

Looked on for a big score there, pity we couldn't capitalise but its. decent

[MOD-MrMoose]

Let’s go! A win on day 1 of a tour!

Tour Match # 1
VS Kenya
Result: :thumbsup
UAE won by 21 runs.

The Match in a tweet: Qassem takes 3 from 5 balls to end the match!

Man of the Match: Amir Alam (UAE)
3 Wickets!

Our best:
Amir Alam - 3/16 off his four overs. Spinners absolutely dominated and defended the set target.

Nawfal Shadi - 3/36 off 4 overs. The runout and wicket in the 15th over probably turned the game in our favour.

Kamal Qassem - 3/10 off 3.2 overs. Turned it on at the death to win the game! Also had a catch.

Khayri Salah - top scored with 41 runs!

Around the Grounds:
South Africa beat Ireland by 8 runs.
Scotland beat Zimbabwe by 9 runs.

3 relatively close games for round 1. The lottery continues tomorrow when we take on Zimbabwe. See you at 10.00 tomorrow.

Trust in the process 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪

[Penky]

Great win guys glad to see Shadi do some damage on an unfavourable pitch!