Back once again!
Hindsight is 20/20 but looking through the scorecard, you probably think we needed Salah to turn his 32 into a 50 or a 60. 60 would have gotten us 28 more runs. We lost by 23…. They had a player in Binny who got to a gritty 68 and I think that was the difference.
Tour Match # 1
Home: UAE
Away: Bangladesh
Ground: The A-Team CG
League: Nat One Day 3
Date: 16 Aug 21 09:00
Crowd: 17,750
Weather: Cloudy
Pitch: Green
UAE won the toss and elected to bowl
Result:

Bangladesh won by 23 runs
Ratings
UAE Bangladesh
Batting - Top Order 15,504 15,475
Batting - Middle Order 14,031 12,133
Batting - Tail 7,132 6,046
Bowling - Seam 14,785 (40) 15,325 (40)
Bowling - Spin 15,720 (10) 16,188 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 18,165 18,284
Overall 268,893 260,914
The Match in a Tweet: I don’t want to say it but I feel like seam friendly pitches might just expose some of UAE’s demons. Yes, yes that is an edgey tweet. Well done me.
Man of the Match: Shahrukh Taher (BAN)
Our best:
Zaid Abbas - 3/40 off his 10 overs for the big medium including a maiden. Sadly wasn’t able to dismiss his cousin, the Bangladesh captain.
Cemal Ma’mun - 3 catches with the gloves and a trying 30 with the bat.
Kaliq Aziz - 2/33 off his 9.5 overs and 19 with the bat.
Around the Grounds:
USA beat Ireland by 3 runs in a thriller. Ireland’s last 5 batsmen only managed 5 runs between them.
Scotland beat Pakistan by 7 wickets.
Let’s turn it around against the Irish. Tune in at 0900!
Trust in the process






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