Senior NAT Team - General Discussion

[Speedy17]

The overcast kinda scares me, might be a seamers dream this pitch.

[Exquisiteblue]

I think your right. Khaleel picks up a 2nd in that over and they are 8 down! Wow.

[Penky]

M. Khaleel (lf) 6-3-9-3, R. Quinn 12 (24b), T. Garrett 0 (0b)
End of over 26 (maiden) - USA(84-8) RR 3.23

Khaleel in on the action with a double wicket maiden

[Penky]

Fielding has been insanely good too, taken every chance and only 1 misfield out of 12 standard checks

[Exquisiteblue]

Fielding has been insanely good too, taken every chance and only 1 misfield out of 12 standard checks

Makes a change that one. Lovely to see it mind!

[Penky]

31.2WAbbas to Quinn : [runout] Cracking shot! No wait it's a wicket! Quinn smashes the ball down the ground and sets off for a single. Mid-on appears from nowhere, Garrett sends Quinn back, but it's too late. A direct hit from Armanjani has Quinn shaking his head as he takes the long, lonely walk back to the pavilion.R. Quinn run out (I. Armanjani) 29 (51b 4x4 0x6) SR:56.86

Armanjani taking names even when not bowling now!
USA not going to be pleased with this one

[Exquisiteblue]

Not sure what has got into Armanjani here but it's literally all about him today. He better not have to bat though

[MrMoose]

Going to interrupt live commentary to have a look at play from earlier in the week. (Apologies, busy week).

Tour Match # 2
Home: Ireland
Away: UAE
Ground: Amsterdamse Bos CG
League: Nat One Day 3
Date 17 Aug 21 09:00
Crowd: 22,000
Weather: Windy
Pitch: Uneven

UAE won the toss and elected to bowl.

Result:
UAE won by 5 wickets.

Ratings
Ireland - UAE
Batting - Top Order: 15,696 - 14,745
Batting - Middle Order: 10,109 - 11,030
Batting - Tail: 4,989 - 5,568
Bowling - Seam: 15,124 (50) - 14,514 (40)
Bowling - Spin: 0 (0) - 15,182 (10)
Fielding/Keeping: 13,676 - 17,996
Overall: 234,840 - 247,037

The Match in a Tweet: Our seamers shared the work load, Alim and Khaleel taking 3 each, Mahmood and Armanjani taking 2 each.

Man of the Match: Alam Nu'man (UAE)

Our best:
Alam Nu'man - 67 not out off 104 balls. Dug deep and got the chase sorted.

Mu'adh Khaleel - 3 wickets for 34 runs off his 10 overs.

Ubaid Mahmood - 2 wickets for 36 runs off his 10 overs, including a maiden.

Imtiyaz Alim - 3 wickets for 27 runs off his 8.5 overs, including 2 maidens.

Ismael Armanjani - 2 wickets for 50 runs off his 10 overs, including a maiden.

Around the Grounds:
Bangladesh beat Scotland by 52 runs.

USA beat Pakistan by 71 runs.


Tour Match # 3
Home: UAE
Away: Pakistan
Ground: Marvellous CG
League: Nat One Day 3
Date 18 Aug 21 09:00
Crowd: 23,000
Weather: Cloudy
Pitch: Green

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl.

Result:
Pakistan won by 4 wickets.

Ratings
UAE - Pakistan
Batting - Top Order: 14,471 - 15,462
Batting - Middle Order: 13,800 - 13,263
Batting - Tail: 5,901 - 7,969
Bowling - Seam: 14,551 (40) - 14,022 (40)
Bowling - Spin: 15,461 (10) - 13,278 (10)
Fielding/Keeping: 17,314 - 17,483
Overall: 256,398 - 260,625

The Match in a Tweet: If you bat first, you have to bat big. CRICKET 101.

Man of the Match: Ammar Cheema (PAK)

Our best:
Zaid Abbas - 2/30 off his 10 overs including a maiden.

Kaliq Aziz - 2/47 off his 10 overs and a catch.

Around the Grounds:
Scotland beat USA by 4 wickets.

Bangladesh beat Pakistan by 92 runs.

Trust in the process

[Exquisiteblue]

Lovely stuff. Some good figures from our guys to be wrote about after that anyway.

121 to chase and a good first over.

[Penky]

Going at a decent clip chasing too, hopefully they keep this up. Scotland have got themselves in big trouble chasing a low score on a hard. If that carries on could be looking at a win-and-up tomorrow!

[Exquisiteblue]

Going at a decent clip chasing too, hopefully they keep this up. Scotland have got themselves in big trouble chasing a low score on a hard. If that carries on could be looking at a win-and-up tomorrow!

Cant believe how fast we are going here as well as the awesome bowling. Bar the worse collapse I've ever seen we will have taken this to the final day which makes me happy.

[Exquisiteblue]

Back to back 50s for Nu'man. He's really on it currently.

[Exquisiteblue]

Victory achieved with 20 overs spare! Kinda surprised we made it look so easy especially with there seamers being alot stronger then ours too.

Should set it up for final day. Few decisions to make now and then hopefully put a performance in tomorrow!

[MrMoose]

WOW WOW WOW WHAT A WIN! Emphatic victory.

Tour Match # 4
Home: USA
Away: UAE
Ground: Donald Bonnito Arena
League: Nat One Day 3
Date 19 Aug 21 09:00
Crowd: 15,000
Weather: Overcast
Pitch: Green

USA won the toss and elected to bat. (First time this week in our games that the skip has said let's have a bat boys).

Result:

Ratings:

USA - UAE
Batting - Top Order: 14,476 - 14,353
Batting - Middle Order: 12,409 - 12,990
Batting - Tail: 4,338 - 7,166
Bowling - Seam: 14,811 (40) - 13,612 (40)
Bowling - Spin: 13,875 (10) - 14,430 (10)
Fielding/Keeping: 16,962 - 17,433
Overall: 244,562 - 252,053

The Match in a Tweet: The Armanjani SHOW! 5 wickets and a run out! What a beast!

Man of the Match:

Our best:
Armanjani - 5 wicket haul, coming from 8 overs and conceding only 31 runs. Had a maiden and a runout in there too.

Khaleel - MY FRIEND MY FRIEND! 3 for 9 off 6 overs including 3 MAIDENS. Thanks for coimg.

Alam Nu'man - the skipper stood up and got the chase off to a flier with a wonder 56 runs pairing up in an opening partnership that almost got the chase done.

Sharad Hossein - the other opener and successfully saw out the chase unbeaten. A wonderful 51 runs.

Around the Grounds:
Scotland are 6 down and need a further 86 runs off 17 overs to beat Ireland.
Bangladesh need 56 runs off 20 overs with 6 wickets in hand to beat Pakistan.

Tune in at 0900 tomorrow as we take on Scotland. This game could be a play off for promotion if Ireland successfully roll Scotland in today’s match.

[heppa]

Nice to see one of my lads contribute.