I love a win! Welcome to the perfect start to a T20 tour.
Home West Indies
Away UAE
Ground The Epicentre
League Nat Twenty20 2
Date 08 Nov 21 08:00
Crowd 21,000
Weather Hot
Pitch Flat
West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl.
West Indies UAE
Batting - Top Order 15,241 15,231
Batting - Middle Order 13,857 12,838
Batting - Tail 5,458 5,545
Bowling - Seam 15,390 (8) 14,680 (16)
Bowling - Spin 14,784 (12) 15,334 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 18,313 18,007
Overall 262,845 256,987
Hud Sam (3 points), Sharad Hossein (2), Nawfal Shadi (1)
UAE won by 30 runs
The match in a tweet: RUNS ON THE BOARD, RUNS ON THE BOARD. Run rate pressure gets to the Windies and UAE win by 30 runs.
Our best:
Hud Sam - 5/40 off his 3.5 overs for the leggie including 3/11 in one over. Closed the game out nicely.
Sharad Hossein - 90 runs unbeaten off 54 balls for the opener. 9 fours and a six for the anchor of a solid innings that ended up being too much for the West Indies to chase down. Also took a catch.
Nawfal Shadi - 3/23 for the Left arm FM. Very economical bowling to swing the game in our favour.
Jaul Ghayth - 73 off 34 balls for the veteran. 5 fours and 4 maximums.
Kaliq Aziz - A duck with the bat but made up for it with the ball. 2/34 off four overs.
Always prefer to chase on a Flat but can't complain with scoring 206 runs after being sent in by the West Indies. 117 run partnership between Ghayth and Hossein. Consistent wickets tapered off the innings but we managed a solid total of 206.
Shadi struck in the 4th over to have West Indies 1/31 after 4 overs. An Aziz wicket in the 6th had them 2/54. RR was 9 and RRR 10.93 after the 6th over. After 10 overs RR was 9 and RRR 11.7. A 75 run partnership between Griffith and Nero threatened to ruin the party but the RRR climbed and climbed. Aziz knocked Griffith over with the last ball of the 14th over to have West Indies 3/129 and reeling - needing 13 an over. Enter Hud Sam taking 3/11 in the 15th over. Tight bowling from Shadi and Khaleel took the RRR up to 18.67 for the last 3 overs. Hud Sam took another in the 18th over, before Shadi took 2 in a row (on a hattrick next game) and then Hud Sam ended it with a wicket with the second last ball. A 30 run win to start our tour week.
Around the Ground:
Scotland beat India by 7 wickets after India elected to bat first on a Flat (Hot). India managed 184 runs for 8 off their 20 which Scotland cruised to 3 down with 2 and a half overs to spare.
Bermuda beat USA by 14 runs after Bermuda elected to bat first on a Dry (Hot). Bermuda's 161 (9 down) proved too many for the USA who managed only 147 in reply (also 9 down).
USA up tomorrow - game starts 0800.