Story 2012 ICC World Twenty20 *** Afghanistan choose to bowl first ***

[The Rock]

Although Netherlands and Ireland have the upper hand among the underdogs, Afghanistan have Hamza. 'Nuff said.

 

[Aislabie]

Hamid Hassan FTW. Netherlands have batting, but Afghanistan have bowling too. Should be interesting.

 

[shantanu_rooney]

ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2012, Sri Lanka
Canada v Netherlands
Qualifying Round, Colombo

Welcome to the first qualifying match of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2012, between Canada and Netherlands. The winner of this match will qualify for the group stages and will play in Group B alongside Australia and West Indies.

Let's go down to have the weather conditions and the pitch report with former Sri Lankan allrounder Russel Arnold.

Pitch & Weather Report​

Weather Conditions: The weather is perfect to play cricket in Colombo today. As it's an afternoon game, the temperature in the early 30s but there is some cool sea breeze blowing which will help the ball swing in the early overs. No chances of rain today, so we will get a complete game of cricket.

Pitch Report: This is going to be hunting grounds for runs by the batsmen. The pitch is hard and will help the batsman a lot with even bounce. There will be some swing for the faster bowlers early on thanks to the breeze blowing, but still its going to be very hard for the bowlers. High scores might be chasable for the team batting second. But it is better to bat first, set a big target and put the team batting second under pressure.


Toss: Canada skipper Jimmy Hansra won the toss and elected to bowl first. That's a surprising decision but we will have to wait and see if it's the right one.

Canada go with same opening pair of Hiral Patel and Nitish Kumar, who have scored huge runs during the recently concluded Caribbean T20 tournament. Which means John Davison will come in at number three. Otherwise the Canadian team is more or less as expected.

For the Dutch, Michael Swart will open the batting along with Eric Szwarczynski, as Stephan Myburgh got injured just before the tournament. Ryan den Toeschate comes back into the side after being rested during Caribbean T20 tournament.

 

[RPHKR]

Excellent presentation,

He's Doeschate not Toeschate!

Netherlands FTW!!

 

[Prats]

Also, He's Mudassar Bukhari..

Excellent presentation but.

 

[The Rock]

Canado go with same opening pair of Hiral Patel and Nitish Kumar

And its Canada.

Brilliant bit of presentation. KIU. Rooting for Netherlands there.

 

[Haarithan]

Mind-blowing presentation, Les Oranges ftw!

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Excellent presentation,

He's Doeschate not Toeschate!

Netherlands FTW!!

Also, He's Mudassar Bukhari..

Excellent presentation but.

And its Canada.

Brilliant bit of presentation. KIU. Rooting for Netherlands there.

Mind-blowing presentation, Les Oranges ftw!

Thanks a lot guys for the comments. And thanks a lot also for telling me the mistakes, was in a hurry so I knew some would have had happened. Anyways now they are corrected. Next update coming soon..

 

[Dipak]

It's Zubin Surkari mate.

 

[shantanu_rooney]

ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2012, Sri Lanka
Canada v Netherlands
Qualifying Round, Colombo

Middle-Order Collapse Restricts Canada To 136​

It was Ryan ten Doeschate who opened the bowling for the Dutch with the keeper standing up at the stumps and within three balls he and his Dutch team mates were celebrating the fall of young Nitish Kumar. Kumar got of the marked with a boundary but was bowled the very next ball.

Ryan ten Doeschate celebrates picking up the first Canadian wicket​

Experience player John Davison walked in the middle, and he along with Hiral Patel added 48 runs to the total, which surprisingly included just two fours, one by each, before Patel was caught by Westdijk at the square leg boundary for 22 of Ahsan Malik's bowling. Usman Limbada and Davison steadied the ship by adding 53 runs in 48 balls between them before Davison was judged leg before of Peter Borren's bowling. Davison departed for more than run a ball 43 and the Canadians were 107 for the loss of 2 wickets with 4 overs remaining.

John Davison top scored for Canada with 43 runs​

Skipper Jimmy Hansra was the next man in and he played a small cameo of 24 runs before he was caught and bowled by Westdijk. His 12-ball innings included two sixes over mid-wicket and long on, and a boundary through covers. His wicket resulted in a huge collapse which saw the Canadians losing five wickets in the last nine balls without scoring a run.

Two balls following the dismissal of the skipper, Zubin Surkari didn?t time the cover drive properly and gave a simple catch to ten Doeschate at covers. He was followed back to the pavilion the very next ball by keeper Hamza Tariq as he was caught in the deep by Borren of Berend Westdijk's bowling. Limbada who had seen Hansra, Surkari and Tariq dismissed from the non-strikers end in a matter of 4 balls was the next to make the long walk back to the pavilion as he was caught plumbed of Bukhari's bowling.

Madussar Bukhari celebrates along with his Dutch team-mates​

Harvir Baidwan lasted two balls before he was also given leg before by the umpire of Madussar Bukhari's bowling. The Canadians ended their innings losing a wicket of Zahid Hussain of the last ball, as he edged one to Ryan den Doeschate in the slips. The Reds managed to score 136 for the loss of 9 wickets in their 20 overs with John Davison top scoring with 43 of 42 balls.

Target for Netherlands: 137 runs from 20 overs

 

[Haarithan]

A pathetic lower order collapse from the Canadians has left them atleast 20 runs short. Should be an easy win for the Dutch now. Go Tendo, own them up!

 

[Prats]

Top order played so well. But then lower order messed up. It's a easy one now for Netherlands.

 

[Dipak]

Canada threw the steady start away. Had their middle order played well, they'd have at least 15 more runs and that could well be the difference. Anyways hope that Dutch qualify

Where's Bagai in the Candian team??

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Where's Bagai in the Candian team??

I completely forgot him.. :P Consider that he was injured and missed it.. :P

 

[The Rock]

Netherlands always had the upper hand in that match. Just as Haari said, the Canadians were almost 20 runs short due to that collapse. Good presentation, KIU.