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A round-up of the second day’s play of the eighth-round Group C games of the Ranji Trophy 2013-14

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Dec-2013
ScorecardFile photo: Dwaraka Ravi Teja struck 17 fours and two sixes during his unbeaten 153•ESPNcricinfo LtdCenturies from Hanuma Vihari and Dwaraka Ravi Teja powered Hyderabad to 341 for 4 against Jammu & Kashmir at the Gandhi Memorial Science College Ground.Rain had deemed play impossible on day one, but once the game started on Monday, the visitors immediately made inroads, rallying to 109 for 1 thanks to a partnership of 87 for the second wicket between Akshath Reddy and Ravi Teja. Akshath fell for 49, but Ravi Teja and Vihari punished the bowling in a 203-run stand for the third wicket. Vihari was eventually dismissed for 109, having struck 18 fours, but Ravi Teja remained unbeaten on 153 with 17 fours and two sixes.
ScorecardFourteen wickets fell in Agartala on day two, as the match between Tripura and Andhra remained finely balanced.Tripura, who began the day 165 for 9, added 14 to their score in five overs before Paidikalwa Vijaykumar trapped Tushar Saha lbw in the 68th over. Andhra, in their reply, lost three quick wickets to stumble to 42 for 3. Bodapati Sumanth led the recovery with 55, but from 116 for 3, the visitors collapsed and were bundled out for 163. Seamer Rana Dutta finished with 5 for 51 – his best figures in first-class cricket – while Manisankar Murasingh grabbed three wickets.Tripura had secured a crucial 16-run first-innings lead, but Andhra clawed their way back into the game with three early wickets, leaving the hosts 20 for 3 heading into the penultimate day.
ScorecardHalf-centuries from Harshad Khadiwale and Ankit Bawne helped Maharashtra secure a first-innings lead of 91 against Himachal Pradesh in Pune. Having bowled Himachal out for 228 on the first day, Maharashtra began the second brightly with a 91-run opening stand between Khadiwale and Rohit Motwani. Rishi Dhawan dismissed Motwani in the 27th over to extend his tally in this season’s Ranji Trophy to 49 wickets, but Maharashtra carried on with a partnership of 70 between Khadiwale and Sangram Atitkar, who made 49.Himachal fought back with two quick wickets, but Bawne put on stands of 68 and an unbroken 82 with Khadiwale and Chirag Khurana respectively to lift the team to 319 for 4. Khadiwale struck 11 fours during his 92, while Bawne’s 76 not out included eight fours.
ScorecardMedium-pacer Nizar Niyas finished with a first-class personal-best of 6 for 82 to help Kerala secure a vital 31-run lead against Goa in Porvorim.Goa were a comfortable 132 for 1, thanks to a second-wicket stand of 117 between Amogh Sunil Desai and Sagun Kamat, who made 49 and 96 respectively. However, both batsmen were dismissed in quick succession, and Goa failed to make the most of their start. None of their other batsmen made more than 20, as Niyas and Rohan Prem ran through Goa’s batting order to dismiss them for 242.Kerala’s openers Nikhilesh Surendran and VA Jagadeesh batted out one over of their second innings without losing a wicket.

Having set his sights on turning out for Australia at the next World Cup, Brad Haddin believes the shift of the domestic limited-overs competition to a tight tournament format will enhance the national team’s chances of contending when the 50-over game’s

Daniel Brettig27-Sep-2013Having set his sights on turning out for Australia at the next World Cup, Brad Haddin believes the shift of the domestic limited-overs competition to a tight tournament format will enhance the national team’s chances of contending when the 50-over game’s major trophy is contested in 2015.Haddin will lead New South Wales against Tasmania in the opening match at Bankstown Oval on Sunday, heralding an event played entirely in Sydney across four venues inside the space of a month. In this it reflects the intensity and rhythm of a World Cup or Champions Trophy, a marked change from the spreading of fixtures across the entire summer.”I reckon the way they’ve set it out this year is outstanding,” Haddin said. “It mirrors what you do with the Australian team and it gets guys used to being in a tournament and building towards a final.”Tournament play is about getting better as you go along and I reckon this is a great way for state cricket to start in a tournament like this. I like that it’s all compressed into a tournament so from that point of view it’s good and we obviously should have a home advantage if it’s played in Sydney.”New South Wales have been rejuvenated by a series of off-field changes since the start of 2013, starting with the elevation of the new chairman John Warn and then a fresh chief executive in Andrew Jones. Trevor Bayliss has returned as the coach, while Haddin has happily accepted captaincy duties whenever Australia commitments allow him.”Leaving for the Ashes it wasn’t a great place to be around,” Haddin said. “But coming back with the work Andrew Jones and John Warn have done with NSW Cricket it’s just been a fresh start. So it was refreshing to walk back in after the Ashes campaign and see the headspace everyone was at. The office is now buzzing, we’ve got everything sorted, so it’s up to us to continue the momentum they’ve started upstairs and play some good cricket.”They will be helped in this pursuit by the limited-overs tournament being staged exclusively in Sydney, granting a major advantage to Australia’s most populous cricket state. Haddin admitted his competitors had a right to raise eyebrows at the loss of home ground comforts for the duration of the event.”I would ask some questions definitely [if from another state],” he said. “The one thing about playing for your state is you like to have the home ground advantage and make teams coming to your area as uncomfortable as you possible can. So a bit of luck the Sydney crowds will get out and make every team as uncomfortable as possible.”Among the anointed venues is the picturesque but small North Sydney Oval, a former favourite with limited-overs schedulers but now notable for how its small boundaries can be exploited by the spring-loaded bats of 2013. Last summer Victoria were set a distant 351 to win by the Blues, but David Hussey and Aaron Finch ran them down with 20 balls to spare.”We’re still looking for some balls Aaron Finch hit out there last year,” Haddin quipped. “It’s good for the crowd. North Sydney Oval traditionally was always a great place to start the tournament, we always used to play the first one day game of the year there, so it was a great event.”It’s a great ground to play at, as is out here [the SCG], but it is an interesting ground to play at now especially with the size of the bats. We won’t hide from the fact we’d like to play at the SCG, but I like the way the tournament’s set up, and these are the grounds we’ve chosen.”

No result
ScorecardWeather played spoilsport as the Ramadan T20 Cup match between Pakistan International Airlines and Water and Power Development Authority in Karachi was called off due to rain.WAPDA scored 151 in their 20 overs after being put in to bat. However, PIA’s chase lasted only eight deliveries before rain interrupted play.PIA got an early breakthrough in the first innings, as medium-pacer Anwar Ali got the wicket of opener Shoaib Nasir in the first over. Sohaib Maqsood, batting at No.3, then shared a 77-run second-wicket partnership with Iftikhar Ahmed, to revive the innings. Maqsood hit 10 fours and three sixes during his 60-ball 86 as WAPDA reached a score of 151 for 8 in 20 overs. Ali was the pick of the bowlers for PIA, ending with figures of 4-0-22-2.Both teams were awarded a point each.

أكد أسامة حسني لاعب الأهلي السابق، أن المارد الأحمر قادر على الفوز ضد الوداد المغربي في مباراة إياب نهائي دوري أبطال إفريقيا، مُشيرًا إلى ضرورة عدم وضع مبررات أمام اللاعبين بالحديث عن التحكيم أو جماهير المنافس.

الأهلي فاز على الوداد في مباراة الذهاب على ملعب استاد القاهرة، بهدفين مُقابل هدف، وسيحل الأحمر ضيفًا على الفريق المغربي يوم الأحد المُقبل 11 يونيو، بمركب محمد الخامس.

وقال أسامة حسني في تصريحات عبر برنامج “بوكس تو بوكس”، المُذاع على قناة “ETC”: “الأهلي لديه فرص كبيرة في التتويج باللقب، الفريق يمتلك جهازًا فنياً مميزًا وعناصر جيدة، ولكن ما يقلقني دائمًا هو حالة اللاعبين في يوم المباريات، إلا أن المارد الأحمر سبق وتخطى مراحل صعبة للغاية”.

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وتابع: “لا يجب أن نضع مبررات للاعبين، سواء حكام أو جماهير مغربية أو غيره، علينا فقط أن نلفت الانتباه لبعض الأمور، الحكم ظلم الأهلي بشكل واضح في مباراة الذهاب، سواء في عدم احتساب ركلة جزاء لحسين الشحات واضحة بنسبة مليون%، أو طرد يحيى عطية الله، الحكم الليبي لم يكن يليق بالنهائي الإفريقي”.

وأضاف: “الأمر المضحك، هو عدم طرد مدافع الوداد، الكرة كانت انفراداً واضحاً وصريحاً، وباتفاق الجميع وقع ظلم واضح ضد الأهلي، هناك رسالة أتمنى أن تصل للاعبين، عليهم الذهاب للمغرب فقط من أجل تحقيق اللقب، وسبق وحققنا نتائج إيجابية في لقاءات الإياب بالنهائي”.

واختتم: “هناك إيجابيات كثيرة، منها عدم حصول مروان عطية وحمدي فتحي على بطاقات صفراء، وجاهزيتهما للمواجهة المقبلة، بالإضافة إلى الحالة الرائعة التي ظهر عليها الحارس مصطفى شوبير”.

Rajasthan Royals have announced the signing of four young players for the upcoming season of the IPL

ESPNcricinfo staff07-Mar-2013

Rajasthan Royals have announced the signing of four players for the upcoming season of the IPL: Sachin Baby, the captain of Kerala’s limited-overs side, wicketkeeper Sanju Samson, Jharkhand seamer Rahul Shukla and Mumbai’s left-arm spinner Harmeet Singh.Baby, who made his first-class debut in 2009, was the fourth-highest run-getter in the recently concluded Vijay Hazare trophy, in which his century in the quarter-finals helped Kerala qualify for the final four. Though his first-class record does not stand out, he has performed well in the 15 List A games he has played in his career so far, averaging 44.72.Eighteen-year-old Samson was signed by Kolkata Knight Riders last season, but didn’t get a game. He was selected in India’s Under-19 side for the Asia Cup held in Malaysia in June-July last year, and played three matches, scoring 14 runs. He was dropped for the World Cup in Australia in August. In the Ranji Trophy, he had scored 377 runs in ten innings, at 41.88, and followed it up with a tally of 222 in the Vijay Hazare trophy.Shukla, who has played for Mumbai Indians before, took six wickets in four matches for Jharkhand in the Vijay Hazare trophy, but hasn’t been a regular for the first-class side.Harmeet, with six wickets at 20.16 in four matches, helped India win the Under-19 World Cup last year. He has so far played only five first-class games – he claimed a seven-for on debut for Mumbai in 2009 – and three List A matches in his career.Royals will open their campaign against Delhi Daredevils on April 6 at the Feroz Shah Kotla.

Match facts

December 2, Khulna
Start time 0900 (0300 GMT)Darren Sammy will have a point to prove for himself and his team•AFP

Big Picture

It was up to Bangladesh to inject life into the five-match ODI series by challenging West Indies, and with their win in the first game, they have done exactly that. The 1-0 lead has already ensured a rise in the ODI rankings and there will be motivation for more.The hosts’ gamble with four debutants clicked for the selectors and the team management. Sohag Gazi became the first Bangladesh player to take the man-of-the-match award on debut, while Anamul Haque first scratched around and then batted more confidently for his 41. They will also be heartened by putting in a positive showing though they were minus Shakib Al Hasan. Tamim Iqbal was brilliant with the bat while Abdur Razzak took three wickets.West Indies have a lot to play for – and correct – in the second ODI. The visitors gave Bangladesh a fine start with the ball, committing to some reckless shots that had them caught on the boundary or on the 30-yard circle. Some tried cutting at deliveries on middle-stump and there was also the odd run-out. The fielding too disintegrated as soon as the likes of Kemar Roach, Ravi Rampaul and Sunil Narine failed to dominate Bangladesh.

Form guide

Bangladesh WLWWL (Most recent first)
West Indies LWWLW

In the spotlight

There was only one wicket for Mashrafe Mortaza in the first game but he used all his experience to counter the swishes of Lendl Simmons and the advances of Chris Gayle. He withstood the early pressure and though there were boundaries, ultimately he was rewarded with the wicket of Simmons, a wicket that was more important than it appears given the mayhem the openers could have created. Bangladesh would be needing exactly the same performance, if not better, on Sunday, from the man who grew up a hundred or so kilometers from the stadium.It would be interesting to see how Darren Sammy reacts after an ordinary performance in the first game. After holing out on the long-on boundary, the West Indies captain bowled an insipid spell. His position in the team could again be called into question if there is another poor performance.

Team news

It is unlikely that Bangladesh will change a winning combination, especially after three of the four debutants were heavily involved in the contest. Mominul Haque will bat in the middle-order and it is likely that he will bat without much pressure of expectations. He would have to deliver immediately though, especially after the way Anamul Haque fought a lot of mental barriers during his short innings in the first ODI.Bangladesh (possible): 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Anamul Haque, 3 Naeem Islam, 4 Nasir Hossain, 5 Mahmudullah, 6 Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), 7 Mominul Haque, 8 Mashrafe Mortaza, 9 Sohag Gazi, 10 Abdur Razzak, 11 Rubel HossainWest Indies are also likely to go with the same team but slotting in Dwayne Smith might be an option. Kieran Powell could also be included, more due to the form he has shown during the Test series against Bangladesh.West Indies (possible): 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Lendl Simmons, 3 Darren Bravo, 4 Marlon Samuels, 5 Kieron Pollard, 6 Darren Sammy, 7 Devon Thomas, 8 Andre Russell, 9 Ravi Rampaul, 10 Sunil Narine, 11 Kemar Roach

Pitch and conditions

Mushfiqur Rahim would want more of the same from curator Zahid Reza after the Bangladesh seamers held the West Indies openers with some early movement in the first game, before the spinners held sway on the slow turner. The batsmen too thrived later on, but patience will be the key.

Stats and trivia

• Bangladesh have won the first match of a bilateral series 11 times, two times of which have been against West Indies including in this series
• Chris Gayle hasn’t scored a half-century against Bangladesh since October 2006

Quotes

“We have to take the field for the second game with the same mentality [as in the first] and try our best to play as well as possible.”

“There’s no panic. We admitted that probably we got a little complacent and Bangladesh seized on the opportunity. It was one day in a five-match series. Tomorrow we have to make things right.”

Left-arm fast bowler Kazi Kamrul Islam has sprained his ankle during a training session with Bangladesh A in Mirpur

Mohammad Isam21-Jul-2012Left-arm fast bowler Kazi Kamrul Islam has sprained his ankle during a training session with Bangladesh A in Mirpur, ahead of their invitational tournament in India. Debashish Roy, the Bangladesh Cricket Board doctor, said it would take three weeks for Kamrul to recover, meaning he will miss the Indian tournament, which begins on July 27.Kamrul has 120 wickets in 38 first-class matches for Chittagong, and was picked for the Bangladesh A side after finishing with 26 wickets in seven matches in the 2011-12 season’s National Cricket League.He is set to be replaced by pace bowler Robiul Islam, who was among the four standbys for the squad. Sylhet’s Robiul has played three Tests, and taken 144 first-class wickets in 47 matches.

Ian Bell’s comeback hundred set up England for a comprehensive victory in the first one-day international against West Indies

The Report by Andrew McGlashan16-Jun-2012England 288 for 6 (Bell 126) beat West Indies 172 (Smith 56, Bresnan 4-34) by 114 runs (D/L method)
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsIan Bell’s first boundary was a straight six off Andre Russell•Getty ImagesIan Bell won the battle of the replacement openers in the first one-day international as he marked his return to England’s 50-over side with his second ODI hundred – nearly five years after his previous one – to earn the home side an early series advantage with a 114-run victory. Initially West Indies threatened in the chase with Dwayne Smith filling the void left by Chris Gayle’s late injury but England’s quicks burst through either side of a rain delay.In some neat symmetry this was the same ground (albeit with a different name) where Bell made his only other ODI hundred – against India in 2007 – and this time he reached three figures from a lively 95 balls to suggest that the hole left by Kevin Pietersen’s retirement will not be as vast as some had envisaged. A day after suffering a suspected fractured jaw, and needing 10 stitches after being hit in the nets, there was barely a false shot in the innings until he top-edged a slower ball from Dwayne Bravo when level with his career best having played gracefully to show, yet again, that one-day cricket is not all about brute force.The opening partnership did not flourish with Alastair Cook was caught behind third ball against Ravi Rampaul but Bell ensured that the team’s recent run of ODI hundreds continued; this was the fifth match in a row that one of the openers had reached three figures after the back-to-back efforts of Cook and Pietersen against Pakistan in the UAE.England’s final total of 288 for 6 was less than they may have hoped for after 30 overs when they were 163 for 3, but was still the second highest score batting first at this venue – and England’s highest – after Craig Kieswetter produced some late boundaries along with Stuart Broad in a useful 43-run stand off 34 balls.After the early loss of Lendl Simmons, Smith’s innings included three boundaries in four deliveries against Steven Finn, the second of which was a pick-up over deep square-leg, and went past fifty off 38 balls. Longevity, though, has never been Smith’s strength and and aiming another shot through the legs side got an edge off Bresnan. In one sense he had done his job, but it was also a missed opportunity to build a long innings. Bresnan struck again in his next over when he won an lbw against Denesh Ramdin – batting at No. 3 after Darren Bravo picked up a groin injury in the field – after the wicketkeeper had lurched to 22.West Indies continued to play their shots with both Marlon Samuels and Dwayne Bravo collecting early boundaries but as rain started to fall Finn struck in the first over of his second spell by squaring up Bravo with a full delivery. In that one moment West Indies went from being ahead of the D/L par score to being behind it. The margin became even greater when Eoin Morgan plucked out Kieran Pollard’s fierce cut at backward point. When Samuels clipped James Anderson to midwicket shortly after an hour’s delay for rain, West Indies’ last hope had gone. In total they lost 9 for 77 in 18 overs.Smart stats

England’s 114-run win is their largest ever against West Indies in ODIs. Their previous highest is the 89-run win in Adelaide in 1987.

The win is also England’s second-largest in Southampton after the 121-run win over Pakistan in 2010. Since 2005, West Indies have lost by a margin of 100-plus runs ten times.

England’s total of 288 is their fifth-highest against West Indies and their second-highest against West Indies at home. The total is the joint-highest for England in ODIs in Southampton.

Ian Bell equalled his highest score in ODIs (126) with his century. He has now scored 3360 runs at an average of 35.00.

Bell’s 126 is the fourth-highest score by an England player against West Indies and second-highest against West Indies in home ODIs. Marcus Trescothick is on top for his 130 in 2004.

The 108-run stand between Bell and Jonathan Trott is the second century stand for the second wicket for England against West Indies. The highest is 144 between Graeme Hick and Michael Atherton in 1995.

Tim Bresnan’s 4 for 34 is the fourth-best bowling performance for England against West Indies. The best is Andrew Flintoff’s 5 for 19 in 2009. It is also Bresnan’s third haul of four or more wickets.

The foundation of England’s total was laid by a second-wicket stand of 108 between Bell and Jonathan Trott, Warwickshire team-mates who used their understanding well to run hard between the wickets against some lacklustre West Indian fielding. The boundaries had been pushed right to edge of the playing area in anticipation of West Indies’ power-packed batting order.After the early loss of Cook, Bell gave England momentum when he took 18 off Andre Russell’s third over which began with a sublime straight six and continued with three further boundaries around the ground. Pietersen, who tweeted support to his former team-mates during the day, could not have done it any better.Bell had a nervous moment on 23 when Rampaul was convinced he had found the outside edge but umpire Richard Kettleborough said not out. Hot Spot did not show anything on replay although Snicko suggested at a thin edge. Two balls later Bell responded with a rasping square cut as Rampaul dropped short and wide.Bell’s timing and placement was effortless, but the going was tougher for Trott who had collected an early boundary through midwicket but had to wait until the 16th over for his second when Bravo drifted into the pads. As in the final Test, Sunil Narine did not overly trouble the top order – at one stage being reverse swept by Trott – but did break the partnership when Trott was caught behind cutting.It was spin (or rather slow bowling) that continued to keep West Indies in touch when Ravi Bopara edged a cut against Samuels to end his first international innings of the season following injury. Samuels also claimed the important wicket of Morgan who chopped into his stumps after a promising start to his innings and a stand of 51 in eight overs with Bell. After a debilitating winter in all formats and an IPL spent warming the bench Morgan looked in decent form and with a far less pronounced squat at the crease than on his previous appearance. After the success of Bell, significant runs for Bopara and Morgan are the next boxes England will be looking to tick.

Michael Clarke believes Australia must improve their bowling at the death after another match slipped from their grasp in the dying stages

Brydon Coverdale at Bellerive Oval24-Feb-2012

Australia captain Michael Clarke believes Australia must improve their bowling at the death after another match slipped from their grasp in the dying stages. Sri Lanka needed 17 from the final two overs in Hobart but they made victory a certainty by taking 14 off the second-last over, bowled by Daniel Christian, who took a wicket but then conceded a four and a six from the next two balls.Things had also come unstuck for Australia in Adelaide, when India needed 13 off the last over and Clint McKay conceded the runs within four legal deliveries. And two days before that, at the WACA, they were lucky to escape with a win when Mitchell Starc conceded 12 from the first four balls of the 50th over, but fortunately for Australia, Angelo Mathews holed out next ball with six runs still needed.”Our death bowling needs to improve, that’s for sure,” Clarke said after the three-wicket loss in Hobart. “We’ve tried plenty of guys and we’ve got the right crew. We just have to execute better than we have throughout the whole series.”You’ve got to keep trying don’t you? You’ve got to try to give the guys out there confidence as well, and back them. I think Dan Christian getting Mathews out was a massive wicket for us. We’ve just got to keep working hard, keep practising in the nets, and then when we get our opportunity in the middle.”The Australians might regain Shane Watson for Sunday’s match against India in Sydney after he was eased back into the squad by being named 12th man for the Bellerive Oval match. But Clarke said that despite Watson’s ability to find a good yorker length, it would unrealistic to expect him to take on the role of bowling in the late stages of a match after a three-month injury lay-off.”It’s going to be hard for Watto to improve the death bowling – he hasn’t played much of late,” Clarke said. “I think it’s a big call on him to bring him straight on and expect him to hit his yorkers straight away or improve our death bowling. The guys in the team have to be able to do it, that’s for sure. We all need to get better at it. Hopefully Watto does play. He’s a big player for us.”Australia’s 6 for 280 looked like a winning total at the change of innings but Sri Lanka’s batsmen played well to keep the chase on track throughout the innings, and it was the biggest successful chase in an ODI at the venue. Clarke said their total was good, but on such a friendly batting surface they were always in danger, should Sri Lanka’s batsmen find their touch.”It was probably a par score,” he said. “The wicket was very good and if anything, with a bit of dew the ball might have skidded on a bit and made it easier to bat second. But you’d like to think you win the majority of your games making 280. We just didn’t execute our skills with the ball at the death. That probably let us down. We probably could have made a few more runs, we probably could have saved a few more in the field, and we’ve got to execute better than that to beat a very good one-day team.”Australia now sit second on the points table and can miss the finals if India have a good finish to the tournament. However, one more victory for Australia will be enough to guarantee them a place in the deciders.Edited by Kanishkaa Balachandran

Kongonis gave the local support something to celebrate with victory over Uganda’s Nile Knights in the final of the inaugural East Africa Cup

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Jan-2012Kongonis 280 for 7 (Patel 92, Allen 65) beat Nile Knights 196 for 9 (Arinaitwe 68*, Rehman 4-32) by 84 runs
ScorecardKongonis players celebrate their victory over Nile Knights in the East Africa Cup final•ESPNcricinfo LtdKongonis gave the local support something to celebrate with victory over Uganda’s Nile Knights in the final of the inaugural East Africa Cup. Originally scheduled for November, heavy rain had twice caused the game’s postponement.The Ugandans sides had dominated the two East Africa competitions, and the Twenty20 final the previous day had been between the two of them. Nile Knights, who defeated Rwenzori Warriors in that game, came back to the Gymkhana ground looking for a weekend double, but Kongonis, who had won the league stage of the event and boasted several internationals in the starting XI, held firm.The Knights won the toss and chose to field, a tactic which worked well a day earlier, but their spinners, who had been stingy then proved far more expensive in the longer format. Duncan Allan, whose form in the past few months has been superb, led the Kongonis charge with an 84-ball 65, adding 100 for the third wicket with Rakep Patel who went on the make 92 off 79 balls. Even though wickets regularly fell once the pair had been separated, the run-rate did not and the Kongonis total of 280 for 7 always looked enough.Kononis opened with an offspinner, Abdul Rehman, and the tactic worked as he took 4 for 32 to leave the Knights almost beaten on 78 for 5. A captain’s innings of 68 not out from Davis Arinaitwe kept the match going the full distance but it came far too late to change the outcome.