New Delhi. A record-breaking match was played in the ICC Cricket World Cup League-2 on Thursday. In this match played in Al Emirates, 6 batsmen of United Arab Emirates (UAE) could not open their account. With this, UAE equaled the record of most batsmen being out on 0 in an innings. Oman forced UAE to achieve this record. Oman won this match by 4 wickets.
Pakistan has faced embarrassment thrice
This is the sixth time in ODI cricket, when 6 batsmen of a team could not open the account. Pakistan has had to face this embarrassment at most 3 times. South Africa and Zimbabwe have faced this situation once each. Now UAE has also joined this list.
Shakeel Ahmed took 5 wickets
Oman and UAE competed in the ICC Cricket World Cup League-2 on Thursday. Oman won the toss and chose to bowl first and its bowlers took full advantage of it. Shakeel Ahmed led the bowling attack of Oman and took 5 wickets. Jay Odera took two wickets in his name. Mujahir Raza and Samay Srivastava took one wicket each.
UAE team all out for 78 runs
In front of this bowling of Oman, UAE was all out after scoring 78 runs in 25.3 overs. Ali Nasir was the team's top scorer by scoring 21 runs. Junaid Siddiq, Mohammad Wasim scored 13-13 runs. Basil Hameed played an inning of 12 runs and V Aravind played an inning of 11 runs. The remaining 6 batters returned to 0.
The batsmen who were out on zero included Aryans Sharma, Vishnu Sukumaran, captain Rahul Chopra, Ayaan Afzal Khan, Dhruv Parashar and Rahul Bhatia. The interesting thing is that all the 5 batsmen who opened their account reached double digits.
Tags: Number Game, Pakistan cricket
FIRST PUBLISHED: November 7, 2024, 19:07 IST
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