Cricket: Bermuda Go Down By 10 Wickets
Bermuda have finished 6th in the ICC World Division 3 Tournament in Malaysia following their 10 wicket defeat by the United States, with both teams being relegated to Division 4.
Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat, they were bowled all out for 113, Jordan DeSilva was the top scorer with 39, while Christian Burgess added 21 and Kamau Leverock was the only other batsman in double figures with 11. Adil Bhatti was the pick of the United States of America bowlers with figures of 5-0-29-3, while Usman Shuja bowled 5-0-30-3.
In reply Bhatti and Fahad Babar needed only 15.2 over to cross the score, Babar scored 63 not out and Bhatti scored 52 not out as the United States of America scored 118 without loss winning by 10 wickets.
Bermuda’s Inning
- ..01 [06] Terryn Fray b Adil Bhatti
- ..00 [03] Allan Douglas c Srini Santhanam b Usman Shuja
- ..11 [09] Kamau Leverock c Muhammad Ghous b Adil Bhatti
- ..21 [17] Christian Burgess b Adil Bhatti
- ..01 [04] Onias Bascome c Fahad Babar b Usman Shuja
- ..12 [16] Delray Rawlins c Aditya Thyagarajan b Steve Massiah
- ..09 [09] Tre Manders LBW Usman Shuja
- ..39 [41] Jordan DeSilva LBW Danial Ahmed
- ..01 [06] Dion Stovell c Adil Bhatti b Danial Ahmed
- ..06 [05] Malachi Jones c & b Muhammad Ghous
- ..00 [01] Kamal Bashir Not Out
- ..12 Extras [12w]
- 113 Total All Out after 19.3 overs
Fall of Wickets: 1-1 [Douglas], 2-1 [Fray], 3-37 [Burgess], 4-38 [Bascome], 5-41 [Leverock], 6-50 [Manders], 7-85 [Rawlins], 8-105 [DeSilva], 9-113 [Jones], 10-113 [Stovell]
United States Bowlers
- 5.0-0-30-3 Usman Shuja
- 5.0-0-29-3 Adil Bhatti
- 4.0-0-19-1 Steve Massiah
- 3.0-0-21-0 Steven Taylor
- 1.3-0-06-2 Danial Ahmed
- 1.0-0-08-1 Muhammad Ghous
United States Inning
- ..63 [49] Fahad Babar Not Out
- ..52 [43] Adil Bhatti Not Out
- ..03 Extras [1b-2w]
- 118 Total for 0 Wickets after 15.2 overs
Bermuda Bowlers
- 3.0-0-26-0 Onias Bascome
- 7.0-0-64-0 Tre Manders
- 4.0-0-12-0 Delray Rawlins
- 1.0-0-04-0 Christian Burgess
- 0.2-0-11-0 Allan Douglas
Looks like salvaging pride wasn’t even on the team’s mind here. Go out, have a swing, and head to the airport.
Why oh why do huge sums of money continue to be thrown at this bunch so that they can travel the world embarrassing themselves & Bermuda?
My sentiments as well. Bermuda’s competing waaaay out of their league!
What huge sums of money? They haven’t received huge sums of money for some time now.
Yes, the senior men’s team is officially a national embarrassment, but BCB isn’t rolling in dough. None of the sports bodies are.
At least they won the toss. That’s something.
I’ll say it again – We should scrap the senior program as it is now and put that money towards our youth programs to boost them even further. Compared to other nations, our youth program is a complete joke. Scrapping it will not remove any of the aspiring goals for the young colts either. I may seem a bit harsh, but Im thinking of scrapping from the 14 year olds and up. They would benefit best with their respective clubs. My reason for saying that is because their talents have peaked in the old ways of doing things here in Bermuda, which as we all know can not cut it at the high levels of cricket today. In other words, they are being prepared and groomed to fail maliciously on the international stage already. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of being beaten and embarrassed on the world stage every single year!! Even the Americans, who’ve just discovered cricket are warming us in a sport we’ve played for well over 100 years. We need a lot of work done starting from the ground up.
It’s a little disingenuous to suggest the Americans just ‘discovered cricket’ – as many know, US cricket is comprised mainly of immigrants and guest workers from the West Indies and the subcontinent. Their development cycle is currently vastly different from Bermuda’s.
Now compare Bermuda to the likes of Singapore and Malaysia and you’re onto something. Bermuda’s stagnated at the senior level while those countries have been able to promote and grow the sport among their vastly greater population.
We’ve squandered opportunities at every turn since ’07. Player contract issues, discipline issues, overseas training issues, the dismissals of qualified coaches (Logie), football/cricket commitment issues and a lack of professionalism and drive among several top players.
I’m not sure how you could call the youth programmes a joke either – by what measure are you comparing them? Several talented players that have gone through the youth programmes are already in England-based performance centres to get refined even further.
And not to be outdone by football, the only real winner/s are the paid administrators…
LOl >> you had me until you mentioned the Americans.Those Americans are from everywhere besides America. This is the case for many of the countries that compete at that level.
Further, it would be unwise to scrap the senior team – simply dont select any player over 21 – 25.
we need to play more 20/20 matches or may be just 20/20 only build there confidence at bat then tackle the long game we need ball beaters and guys that are not afraid to bat. He’ll give the players $500.00 for every 4 and $1000.00 for every six and then see what happens. Whatever we have done it has not worked change it up and do something different
Id suggest the opposite is happening. Players are used to small grounds and walloping everything for boundaries and become backyard bullies. The team couldn’t bat out 50 overs in international fixtures.
Guys like Jason Anderson, and dare I say it, David Hemp, would have provided the glue to the innings that the team on tour failed to deliver.
In my opinion, having this T20 mindset is one of the reasons we are in this situation. Taking a team who cannot bat 50 overs (or even 40 for that matter), is always a recipe for disaster. In limited overs cricket, you always want to bat your entire innings. How many games in the domestic season did we see teams bowled out way inside of 50 overs? I would say more than half. We put our cricketers in a false sense of security when they scored a half century. Because the standards are so low.We need to get back to basics in terms of our batting. Until our batsmen can prove that they can consistently bat 50 overs in then any tournament we enter will be a disaster. Batsmen need to be able to build an innings as they say. We continually gave our bowlers a total of 120-140 to defend. DO THE MATH…That’s a poor score even in T20 cricket. Now that our opposition are batting out their 50 overs, that is always going to be a walk in the park for them. MAKE OUR BATSMEN BAT!!!
Yeah. Getting rid of ‘open cricket’ was a recipe for disaster. BCB bowed to the whims of the players instead.