Barramundis bounce back against Hong Kong
Cricket
After going down to Namibia in the opening encounter of the World Cricket League tournament currently underway in Windhoek, Namibia, the PNG Barramundis held their nerve against Hong Kong to register their first victory.
In a scoring battle waged by opening batsmen, Tony Ura outdueled Hong Kong captain Anshy Rath as PNG notched their first win of the event in tense fashion to beat Hong Kong by three wickets at United CC.
Rath gave Hong Kong an outstanding platform after his side was sent in, scoring 85 off 98 balls including a pair of half-century stands with Kinchit Shah and Ahsan Abbasi.
But from 155 for 2 in the 34th over, Rath’s wicket at the hands of Nosaina Pokana sparked a dramatic slide for Hong Kong.
Ex-captain Babar Hayat fell for 11 to the legspin of Charles Amini and Hong Kong added just 48 off the last 10 overs to settle for a below par 222.
Ura bolted out of the gates in the chase for PNG, swatting Tanvir Afzal’s medium pace for a pair of sixes in the first over and needed just 40 balls to reach a half-century.
Ura added 71 for the first wicket with Sese Bau across the first 15 overs to put PNG on course for victory before falling at the end of the 31st over to Ehsan Khan, who triggered a middle-order slide to bring Hong Kong back in it with four wickets.But at 163 for 6, Hong Kong couldn’t finish off the tail.
Chad Soper and Jason Kila held their nerve to add 58 for the seventh wicket before Soper fell with two needed to win. No. 8 batsman Kila saw PNG across the line, ending unbeaten on 36 off 42 balls.
Result: Papua New Guinea’s 223 for 7 (Ura 87, Ehsan 4-36) beat Hong Kong 222 for 9 (Rath 36, Frylinck 3-16, Williams 3-25, Smit 3-34) by three wickets.
In PNG’s opening encounter, Jan Frylinck played a vital role in a low-scoring thriller to help the tournament hosts off to a winning start against Papua New Guinea.
Frylinck snared the prized pair of Tony Ura and captain Assad Vala inside the Powerplay and from there, PNG’s innings never gained any momentum.
Chad Soper stretched the innings out with 36 from No.6 before he was last person out in the 43rd for Frylinck’s third victim.
The early part of Namibia’s chase wasn’t much better than what PNG had produced.
After legspinner Charles Amini ripped through the middle-order, Christi Viljoe was runout for 8 to leave
Namibia 67 for 6 chasing a target of 119.
But Frylinck followed up his wickets with an instrumental 23 not out off of 20 balls to get Namibia over the line with a whopping 19.3 overs to spare. It means they hold a sizeable early advantage with the tournament tiebreaker of net run rate.
Result: Namibia 120 for 7 (Frylinck 23*, Amini 3-46) beat PNG 118 (Soper 36, Frylinck 3-16, Williams 3-25, Smit 3-34) by three wickets
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