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Hurricanes exacted revenge for their defeat three nights ago with a nine-run win as Thunder suffered a middle-order collapse

Tristan Lavalette13-Jan-2022Matthew Wade made an unbeaten 83 on return, then Riley Meredith lit a fuse with the ball as Hobart Hurricanes ended Sydney Thunder’s six-match winning streak with a nine-run victory at Marvel Stadium.After missing two matches due to personal reasons, Wade’s 54-ball knock held Hurricanes’ innings together after they elected to bat before speedster Meredith tore through Thunder’s vaunted batting order with three wickets in a see-saw contest.Fourth-placed Hurricanes (24 points) exacted revenge after losing by nine wickets just three days ago and tightened their grip on a playoffs berth, while Thunder (31 points) remained second behind Perth Scorchers.Wade returns in styleHaving hit two of his three BBL tons at Marvel Stadium, Ben McDermott eyed another big score but Thunder had his number again as he fell for 18. For the second straight match, he fell to a slower delivery after being deceived by Daniel Sams in the fifth over.It brought Wade to the crease, who returned after missing two matches due to personal reasons and he came in at No. 3 instead of his customary position at the top. Having struggled for most of the season, Wade’s timing was impeccable with a powerful boundary second ball and then smashed legspinner Tanveer Sangha for two boundaries in the seventh over.Wade received a life on 18 when Sangha dropped a sitter at short third man and made Thunder pay along with Caleb Jewell, who justified the faith to keep him as an opener with a 32-ball 51. Hurricanes appeared set to push for 200 until Jewell’s wicket in the 13th over sparked a collapse of 5 for 22.Having watched the carnage around him, an unperturbed Wade lifted Hurricanes with a late flurry. Hurricanes still haven’t quite got the balance right in their batting order but a rejuvenated Wade at No. 3 appears a winner.Thunder hit back after ragged startThunder appeared to be wilting amid the Wade and Jewell carnage marked by ragged bowling and sloppy fielding. But they weren’t rattled and impressively fought back to spectacularly flip the script. In-form seamer Gurinder Sandhu claimed two wickets in a momentum-shifting 13th over as Thunder tore through Hurricanes’ susceptible middle order.They claimed five wickets in a devastating 25-ball burst punctuated by a scintillating yorker by Mohammad Hasnain to clean up an ashen-faced Jordan Thompson in the 17th over. Apart from leaking 16 runs in the 12th over, Hasnain was again irrepressible with full, and fast, bowling.But the disciplined Thunder would have been disappointed with their bowling and fielding in the first 10 overs which ultimately proved costly.Meredith sizzles with paceApart from taking the wicket of Matthew Gilkes in the first over, Meredith was struggling with his rhythm and his wayward bowling promptly suffered a hammering from Alex Hales. Fellow seamer Tom Rogers, their leading wicket-taker this season, didn’t fare any better as an under-siege Hurricanes lost their nerve with Thunder’s 1 for 56 the most runs scored by any team in the powerplay this season.They clawed back through Thompson claiming the key wickets of Hales and stand-in skipper Jason Sangha, who fell to a superb slower ball. Then Meredith swung the match spectacularly in the 11th over by clean bowling Ollie Davies and Ben Cutting with sheer pace as Hurricanes gained a stranglehold.Meredith, who played five T20Is for Australia last year, had an interrupted start to the BBL season and only took three wickets in his last five matches. With his lethal pace and full-length prowess on song, the 25-year-old issued a timely reminder to national selectors.Thunder rocked by middle-order collapseChasing 178, Thunder looked supremely confident under the closed roof as they dominated the powerplay. Hales was patient early during his unbeaten 80 against Hurricanes the last time but he was in a hurry here.Hales smashed David’s spin for five boundaries in the second over and raced to 27 off just 10 deliveries after he flicked a fast delivery from Meredith for six. His whirlwind 17-ball 38 ended in the fifth over but Thunder still looked on course until they lost 4 for 10 mid-innings.Nathan McAndrew tried his best at the end to conjure a miraculous victory but it wasn’t enough as Thunder lost for the first time since December 26.

Zak Crawley rises a remarkable 53 spots to reach a career-best No. 28 after scoring 267 in third Test

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Aug-2020Three England players made big strides in the rankings in the rain-hit third and final Test against Pakistan: James Anderson’s seven wickets in the match – which took him to 600 Test wickets, the first seam bowler to get to the mark – put him at No. 8 among bowlers, while Zak Crawley and Jos Buttler rose in the batsmen’s chart after hitting 267 and 152 respectively in England’s only innings.Anderson reaching the 600-wicket milestone was the story of the Test match, but Crawley was named Player of the Match for his mammoth double-century, his first three-figure score in his eighth Test. It was the second-highest maiden Test century by an English batsman and the seventh-highest overall, and gave him a lift of 53 positions in the list for batsmen to No. 28 with 605 rating points, both career highs.Only Ben Stokes (No. 8), Joe Root (No. 9) and Buttler, who got to the 21st position after hitting his career-best score, are ahead of Crawley for England in the rankings.Anderson had dropped out of the top ten, but the former world No. 1 got right back in to slot in at No. 8. In Southampton, not only did Anderson reach the 600-wicket mark in Tests, he also recorded his 29th five-wicket haul in Tests, in Pakistan’s first innings, before striking twice more in the second innings.There wasn’t much joy for Pakistan, apart from Azhar Ali and Mohammad Rizwan moving up the batsmen’s rankings. Ali’s 141 in their first innings took him up 11 spots to No. 23, while Rizwan, who hit 53 in the first innings to build on the 72 in the previous Test, got to the 72nd spot, a jump of three positions.At the end of the series, which England won 1-0 after winning the first Test by three wickets, the home side’s prospects of reaching the final of the World Test Championship had taken a hit. The WTC schedule is not halfway through yet, with 14 out of 27 series remaining, but England, after four series, are in third place behind India and Australia with just two series left – in Sri Lanka and in India – while Pakistan are further behind, at No. 5, with the second Test of their home series against Bangladesh, a tour of New Zealand and another home series against South Africa still to be played.

Harry Conway continued to star with a useful partnership and more wickets at Drummoyne Oval

Daniel Brettig13-Mar-2019Harry Conway continued to enjoy the game of his life but Victoria were inching their way to a defendable fourth-innings lead against New South Wales after two dramatic days of the top of the table Sheffield Shield match at Drummoyne Oval in Sydney.NSW had begun the day by eking out another 38 priceless runs for the final three wickets, as the captain Peter Nevill found more than useful help from Conway to forge a first-innings advantage. The Victorian response was quickly unsettled by Conway, who got an outswinger to lift off a length at Travis Dean and reap a catch in the slips, maintaining the visiting captain’s difficult season.Marcus Harris and Will Pucovski steadied things for a time, but in the minutes before lunch both were deceived and dismissed: Pucovski pinned lbw on the front foot by Steve O’Keefe, then Harris tucked up by a Greg West bouncer and gloving into the cordon from the very last ball of the morning.In the afternoon, Conway bent a near yorker around the groping bat of Cameron White to pin the former Victorian captain lbw for a golden duck, and Nic Maddinson hinted at a major score before glancing West into Nevill’s gloves for 33.Conway’s third strike arrived when Matthew Short was turned around by another away swinger and well held by Nick Larkin in the slips, and Seb Gotch’s unsuccessful attempt to hammer Jason Sangha’s legbreak beyond the boundary left Victoria with only three wickets remaining. Nevertheless, their lead by the close was worth 130, with James Pattinson and Peter Siddle intent on adding more.

The ICC has found no evidence of corruption following an investigation stemming from a newspaper story in The Sun on the eve of the Perth Ashes Test

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Feb-2018The ICC has found no evidence of corruption following an investigation stemming from a newspaper story in on the eve of the Perth Ashes Test, which claimed the series had been targeted for spot-fixing along with various T20 tournaments around the world.In the lead-up to the third Ashes Test at the WACA in December, reported that two of their undercover reporters had been asked for GBP140,000 (USD187,000) to “spot fix” markets in the match, such as the exact amount of runs scored in an over.The ICC’s Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) immediately launched an investigation, saying that they would cross-reference this new information with their existing reports, although they added, very early on, that there was no evidence that the Perth Test had been corrupted in any way.Now, two months later, the ACSU has confirmed that their investigations did not turn up anything to suggest any matches, players or officials have been involved.”We have carried out an extensive global investigation with anti-corruption colleagues from Member countries based on the allegations in and the material they shared with us,” Alex Marshall, the general manager anti-corruption, said”I am satisfied that there is no evidence to suggest any match has been corrupted by the individuals in the investigation nor is there any indication that any international players, administrators or coaches have been in contact with the alleged fixers.”The game’s most high-profile spot-fixing scandal was broken by the now-defunct – sister paper to – in 2010, which led to Pakistan’s Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif being given prison sentences for bowling deliberate no-balls in a Test at Lord’s.

Half-centuries from opener Himanshu Rana and No. 3 Shubman Gill provided India Under-19s with a total of 273, which they were able to defend successfully thanks a middle-overs squeeze by their spinners Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Chahar

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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsFile photo: Himanshu Rana’s 71 off 79 balls was the highest score of the Asia Cup final•PTI

Half-centuries from opener Himanshu Rana and No. 3 Shubman Gill provided India Under-19s with a total of 273, which they were able to defend successfully thanks a middle-overs squeeze by their spinners Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Chahar. In the end, hosts Sri Lanka were beaten by 34 runs.At one point though, that result had seemed unlikely. With the momentum of picking up six wickets in the last 11 overs fuelling them, Sri Lanka went after the target with great vigour. Captain Kamindu Mendis and R Kelly struck fifties each to take the score to 158 for 2 in the 31st over. That brought the equation down to 116 off 118 balls with eight wickets in hand.India needed to re-establish control and their 16-year old captain Abhishek helped with that, dismissing Kelly for 63. He finished with figures of 4 for 37 in 10 overs of left-arm spin and claimed the Man-of-the-Match award. Sri Lanka had to deal with Chahar’s miserly legspin from the other end. With him bowling his full quota, giving away only 22 runs, and picking up three wickets as well, the chase unravelled. Sri Lanka lost three wickets in five overs between the 38th and 43rd, then another three wickets with the score on 225 and were finally bowled out for 239.It signalled the importance of first-innings runs in Colombo, and India were able to put up enough thanks to Rana’s 71 off 79 balls and Gill’s 70 off 92 balls. While their partnership of 88 for the second wicket was on, it seemed like India would get to a total of 300 or more, but seamer Nipun Ransika, who took two wickets in the 47th over, and left-arm spinner Praveen Jayawickrama, who dismissed both the half-centurions, ensured that did not happen. Sri Lanka would later realise that the damage had already been done.

Samit Patel had planned to go to Dubai for a holiday. Now he’s going with England, hoping to add to his five Test caps

David Hopps at Trent Bridge24-Sep-2015Samit Patel had planned to go to Dubai anyway. Not to be conveniently placed in case an England spinner tripped over a fielding cone. Just because he fancied a holiday in the sun after a long season. Now he goes to Dubai with England, wondering if the Test series against Pakistan will present an opportunity to add to his five Test caps. The sunbed and ice creams will have to give way to fielding drills and ice baths.He looks trim, that needs to be stated from the outset. Either that or the Nottinghamshire kit is expertly tailored for the fuller figure. “He obviously hasn’t been fitness-tested by England because he is off their radar but he is fitness-tested by Notts on a regular basis and his tests are good,” said Mick Newell, his director of cricket.Pick him, then talk him down. Both Patel and Newell, one of those who selected him, are playing down the chance of him actually getting a game. As a replacement for Zafar Ansari, he is very much the third spinner in line, behind Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid, and unlike Ansari he is not a selection with the future in mind. It is not impossible to draw up an XI where all three play – in fact, Patel’s most recent Test appearance, at Kolkata in December 2012, came alongside two other spinners in Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar. But it does seem unlikely.”We weren’t sitting there with hundreds of names in front of us,” Newell conceded. “There are a number of experienced offspinners and there are a number of promising legspinners, although they are a long way from being regarded as Test match bowlers.”Had the selectors spoken much of Patel in recent years? “A little bit in a very broad discussion of spin bowlers – Samit’s name comes up at most selection meetings.” Newell chuckled as he said it. One imagines it has often come up ruefully, an interlude between the serious stuff. But the bond between the player and his director of cricket is a strong one.”I am delighted for Samit because he has never given up hope,” Newell said. “It has been a while since he last played but he has always talked about his desire to play for England and he has this unexpected opportunity so let’s hope he makes the most of it. I have felt for two or three years that he still had a chance of selection in sub-continent conditions.”If England were going to Australia or South Africa, I don’t think Samit would be an obvious pick but this is a tour where unusually three spinners have been selected, the left-arm spinner who got selected was injured and Samit was the most obvious spinner in that role.”All that is just detail for Patel. He is just happy to be back. Last season, in the form of his life, he was determinedly ignored. This season, although short of runs in the Championship, fortune has favoured him. There were times when he seemed to be the only person in the country who believed he would go on another England tour, and he has been proved right.Frustration has been replaced by a bountiful smile, although that frustration was tempered by a recognition of the qualities of the player who got the vote last season. Moeen Ali was championed by Peter Moores, then England coach, now assisting at Nottinghamshire. “I thought I had a chance last season, but they went with Moeen. That pick is not a disappointment for me. He proved he deserved to have it.”This is a good news story, although some will see it largely as an example of England’s calamitous spin-bowling shortage. There is much affection for Patel at Trent Bridge, especially among the crowd. He is a character cricketer, a player who draws a smile, celebrating his skill as one of the best players of spin in the country (as there are hardly any spinners, he does not get much chance to prove it), sympathising with his occasional disasters, and relishing his expressive responses as life turns from good to bad and back to good again.He is a man of many guises. There is the cunning Samit, as one of his left-arm slows beats the outside edge, and persuades him that he has his quarry in sight; there’s the celebratory Samit, bounding around when something goes well, briefly feeling himself the best player in the world; the startled, wide-eyed Samit as events begin to conspire against him; and the disconsolate Samit when a run chase goes awry, he hangs his head and the world briefly becomes insufferable.And there will always be a distinctive mix of self-belief and comedy. Only Patel could follow an ECB tweet announcing his call-up for the Pakistan tour with a wicket at the same moment. “The very moment the press release went out he caused Sean Ervine to loft to mid-off where Stuart Broad, an England colleague again, held the catch … that’s Samit for you,” Newell smiled.Only Patel could follow-up a tour de force of stamina by Surrey’s Kumar Sangakkara in the Royal London Cup semi-final at the Kia Oval by needing treatment for cramp… when he was barely in double figures. Such rich irony. He will be forever worth watching, the sort of player you want to carry on until he is 40.Patel is 30 now and, while he chatted, he referred several times about how he is a mature person these days – habitually adding the word “hopefully” as if he feared something might go awry if he claimed too much. It will soon be Nottinghamshire’s end-of-season drinks party. “I will try to curb it as much as I can,” was his scampish response.He has never met Trevor Bayliss, England’s coach, and is looking forward to working with him, and is thrilled by the prospect of learning from Mahela Jayawardene, who will join the tour as a batting coach. When it comes to the art of playing spin, he will be one of Jayawardene’s brightest students.”I will bat anywhere just to play – that’s non-negotiable,” he said. “Opportunities have not come as I would have liked but that’s just the way sometimes. I will be behind Moeen and Rash to play but I will be happy just to go on the trip. To work with a new coach and with Mahela Jayawardene – I can’t wait. To learn off him will be outstanding.”Patel has been unfortunate in that batting is his strong suit, but spin bowling has often won him selection, creating an imbalance in how he is used. Recognising that England will not change, this season he has tried to change himself, placing more emphasis on his bowling in red-ball cricket.”I set my goal as 40 wickets for the year and I started really well but I have not had as much bowling as I would have liked,” he said. “I’ve been happy with how I’ve been bowling but it hasn’t been a spinner’s summer to be honest.”It’s about thinking like a spin bowler really, rather than a top-order batsman who bowls a bit of spin. How to create more wicket-taking deliveries. I presume I am just a replacement but I am just happy to get out there and impress some coaches.”The sun shone down on Trent Bridge. Samit Patel belonged. He felt special again.

Having achieved a settled side and one that is developing nicely, Bangladesh’s selectors don’t need any hiccups in Zimbabwe

Mohammad Isam04-Apr-2013Bangladesh’s selection committee will complete a full circle when they announce the Test team on Friday that will take on Zimbabwe in two Tests later this month.The three-member panel that began its reign exactly two years ago, had their first assignment to pick a team for the previous Zimbabwe tour, but this time the challenges are more perceptible rather than being routine.Much of the injury trouble has disappeared as Shakib Al Hasan is being readied for the tour and the recovery of Enamul Haque jnr, Shahriar Nafees and Naeem Islam now complete. Tamim Iqbal, who fractured his thumb during the first ODI against Sri Lanka, could also feature as early as the first Test against Zimbabwe. The only worry is Mashrafe Mortaza whose Test claims were shelved after he could not recuperate from a heel injury, but he is likely to make the ODI squad.All this is as much good news for the selection committee as it is a challenge. They have several options to pick from and whichever way they go, be it continuing with the incumbent squad of players or bringing back experienced players, they will have to back their decision to the hilt.There will be no other way for Akram, Minhazul Abedin and Habibul Bashar, all former Bangladesh captains. A tour to Zimbabwe has been traditionally a challenge that had the allure of a positive outcome. It was the same two years ago, but Bangladesh lost and that possibly made the selectors time in office a lot harder as they started their job with defeat.The Bangladesh team that lost the one-off Test was a team that was supposed to be in transition after the 2011 World Cup campaign. Instead, the losses in the Test and ODI series in Zimbabwe forced a drastic re-think in leadership while the team combination went through several changes, some of which were necessary, while many have been reactionary.As they complete selection for their second series against Zimbabwe during their reign, the selectors are facing a similar challenge as they did in April 2011, but this time with a history of small discretions along the way, which is adding to their expectation. In other words, a series win beckons and with a sense of anticipation that is a few times more than the last series against the same team.Their inability to find a proper set of pace bowlers has been a big disappointment. They have gone through six so far, none of whom got more than eleven wickets in Tests in the last two years. Injuries have also hurt their chances of forging a settled combination but their handling of these pace bowlers’ preparation has been quite poor. The constant excuse that these pace bowlers have used is the lack of bowling in longer games, which is a decision taken mainly by the selectors, who are caught between giving them enough bowling in domestic matches but mindful of using them in Test cricket.What has resulted is half-fit and poorly prepared pace bowlers relying on a defensive line and length and often without the accuracy of first-class bowlers. They have also made an error in judgment by not looking past Shahadat Hossain and using Robiul Islam as just a Test match bowler. Abul Hasan is another who is falling into the trap of less bowling and more mollycoddling, and it has resulted in his on-field performance and his continuous helplessness after a good first spell.What is on the selectors’ side is the settled look of the overall batting order. Their continuous chop and change to find Tamim Iqbal’s opening partner is a factor held against them. But the middle-order hasn’t seen too many upheavals and this has been one of their achievements.The selectors too have been a settled line-up for the last two years, another notch on their belt. But as far as a lower-ranked team like Bangladesh is concerned, they haven’t actually brought on many rare talents and backed them. Sohag Gazi was only an option against left-handed batsmen from West Indies, but the offspinner has exceeded that expectation from the selectors. Nasir Hossain, Anamul Haque and Mominul Haque are batsmen who “selected themselves” as one chief selector liked to say frequently.They have given eight debuts each in Tests, ODIs and Twenty20s so far and of them, players like Suhrawadi Shuvo, Nazimuddin and Shuvogoto Hom have already faded away from national contention.All of these negatives and positives will be weighed against Akram and his colleagues if a result other than a series win happens in Zimbabwe. With the World Cup two years away, it would not be wise to put them under more pressure because that would translate into pressure on the players, which should hardly be the case given how rapidly the team has developed in the last two years.

A round-up of the latest round of matches from the MiWAY T20 Challenge 2011-12 in South Africa

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Mar-2012After three consecutive losses, Warriors finally opened their account in the tournament with a comfortable 36-run win in Benoni against Impi, who slid to their sixth-successive defeat. The Warriors were bolstered by the return of Colin Ingram from the South African Twenty20 squad in New Zealand, and the batsman made an unbeaten 42 to finish the innings after Ashwell Prince scored 63 as opener. Prince departed in the 15th over, hitting five fours and two sixes in his knock. Ingram and Craig Thyssen, whose unbeaten 49 came off 24 balls, took the score to 182 for 2. In reply, Impi could only manage 146, but it was enough to deny Warriors a bonus point. Their top order failed to convert starts against an experienced bowling attack comprising Makhaya Ntini and Nicky Boje.The match between Knights and Titans at Bloemfontein was abandoned without a ball bowled.

Andrew Hilditch will remain Australia’s chairman of selectors until at least August, when Cricket Australia will have the findings of a review headed by the former BHP chairman Don Argus

Brydon Coverdale10-Mar-2011Andrew Hilditch will remain Australia’s chairman of selectors until at least August, when Cricket Australia will have the findings of a review headed by the former BHP chairman Don Argus. The former captains Allan Border, Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh will be on the panel that will review Australia’s performance in the wake of the Ashes thrashing.The group, which will have the former ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed as its deputy chairman, has been asked to “understand the causes of the Australian cricket team’s recent performance decline in Test matches and recommend changes to deliver sustained success”. And while that scope could mean making recommendations on the make-up of the selection panel, Hilditch won’t be going anywhere just yet.His tenure as chairman was due to expire at the end of the World Cup, but for the sake of continuity he will stay on until the review is complete. That means Hilditch and his panel of Greg Chappell, David Boon and Jamie Cox will be responsible for choosing Australia’s Test squad to tour Sri Lanka in August, and probably the side that will head to South Africa in September.”Because we have to get on with business, the board will keep the current selectors, they will be doing their normal work [until August],” the Cricket Australia chairman Jack Clarke said. “We’ve got to do contracts, we’ve got a Bangladesh [one-day] series, we’ve got Australia A going to Zimbabwe, we have a Test series in Sri Lanka. All of those will certainly need to be picked before the review comes back. But it is up to the review to come up with things, it is up to the board to make any decision about that.”The panel is expected to report its findings around August, although Clarke said because Cricket Australia did not want to rush things, it could be later in the year. And while it was the Ashes result – Australia lost three matches by an innings and went down in the series 3-1 – that sparked the review, Clarke said all was not doom and gloom for Australian cricket.”We’re still No.1 in one-day cricket and we did have a bad Ashes loss and we lost the Ashes in 2009 as well, not something we’re used to doing and we want to make sure it doesn’t happen again as best as we can,” Clarke said. “It’s just not going to be a witch-hunt, we’re looking forward for sustained future success, we’re not looking with rear-view mirrors.”

Mark Ramprakash continued his fine pre-season form, but was out-scored by Arun Harinath in Surrey’s easy win against UAE

Mark Pennell in Abu Dhabi24-Mar-2010
Mark Ramprakash appears to have taken a shine to the pitch at the Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, so much so that he has yet to create an average for himself. Ramprakash took his personal run tally at the stadium to 314 in three innings on Wednesday evening during Surrey’s routine win over the shell-shocked amateur players of the UAE national side, who were saved further punishment when Ramprakash retired hurt with a stiff calf.By then, Surrey were well on the way toward victory at 151 for one after another Ramprakash virtuoso display of 83 from 70 balls, 52 of which came in boundaries. Those runs went in the scorebook alongside his 127 not out against the UAE here this time last year and the unbeaten 104 when he faced the Emerging Cape Cobras on Monday night.Yet for once, Ramprakash was out-scored, and memorably so as left-handed Surrey academy product Arun Harinath posted a run-a-ball hundred in only his second innings on tour. The sixth four of Harinath’s stay took him to his century and the team to victory with 5.4 overs and seven wickets in hand.Earlier in the evening the hosts, who are coached by former Sussex and Derbyshire all-rounder Colin Wells, made a dismal start to the game. Batting first under the lights having won the toss, they were 14 for 2 inside four overs. In Jade Dernbach’s second over opener Amjad Ali lost his off stump then Arshad Ali played late to go leg-before to the same bowler.Stuart Meaker made it 40 for 3 by having Indika Sampath caught at the wicket, but to their credit UAE put up a spirited rally with a fourth-wicket stand of 81 between stylish top-scorer Saqib Ali and rather more dogged Abdul Rehman.Saqib, a warehouseman for a medical supply firm, stroked eight fours in his 78-ball stay for 61 and it needed a stunning catch in one-glove by Ireland keeper Gary Wilson, diving wide to his right, to send the right-hander packing.Shadeep Silva and Fayyaz Ahmed kept the board just about ticking, each with run-a-ball scores of 28, but nothing they did seemed to enliven Rehman’s scoring rate as he finally closed in on a 78-ball 50 in the final over of UAE’s innings.