Cricket: Afghanistan Defeat Bermuda In UAE
[Updated with photos] The Bermuda National Cricket team continued competing in the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifiers taking place in the United Arab Emirates, losing to Afghanistan today [Mar.20].
Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat, and scored 177/5 in their allotted 20 overs, Mohammad Shahzad was their top scorer with 64 not out.
Bermuda’s Dion Stovell once again led the bowling attack with figures of 4-0-38-2, while Sammy Robinson, Rodney Trott and Joshua Gilbert all grabbed a wicket each.
In reply Bermuda could only manage 162/7 coming up those 15 runs short, Janeiro Tucker was the top scorer with 37, Fiqre Crockwell added 34 and Kamau Leverock was on 21 not out when the innings closed. Aftab Alam was the pick of the Afghanistan bowlers he returned figures of 4-0-23-3.
The final score was Afghanistan 177/5 Bermuda 162/7, and a full scorecard is available here. Pictured above in an ICC photo is Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi flipping the coin as Bermuda’s captain David Hemp and match referee Dev Govindjee watch.
This is Bermuda’s seventh game of these ICC Qualifiers, having already played against Canada, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Denmark, Nepal, Papua New Guinea. The team has lost six games, and chalked up one win after defeating Papua New Guinea yesterday.
Update: Photos courtesy of the ICC, click to enlarge:
why the heel has terryn fray been playin all this time and they had fiqre out there? why take a man like terryn fray that bats really slow if you want him to number 8. I think he is an outstanding talent but this form of the game does not suit him. hollis is a better t20 player than fray although fray is a better over cricketer.
on another note it will be very interesting to see the bermuda national team play against a bermuda select once they return to the island.. my money will be on the select team. bermuda’s best cricketers cant travel with the team cause most of them will fail the drug test. an example of this is when barbados cam to bermuda and hammered the national team then lost to a bermuda select team. lets see that match happen.
Please save Bermuda from further embarrassment and bring the team home. Invoke a self-ban from all international tornaments. Only friendlies in Bermuda if opponents want to fly in for RnR and practice games with our boys……surely the funds used over the last few years have come to naught….spoilt boys, showing up late for training, or not showing up at all, picking fights with the coaches and general bad attitudes of non-committment and lack-lusture performance should be expelled from future development programs.