– Lake, Kirton give Guyana first points
By John Ramsingh in New York
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The Baisley Pond Park (BPP) hosted the first triple header on Saturday May 27 in this year’s Rockaway New York T20 Cricket Fiesta and despite the cool conditions throughout the day the action in the middle was heated.
In the match of the day, defending champions Pakistan lost a low-scoring thriller to hosts, New York Select XI by three wickets with six balls to spare.
As the trend goes, Pakistan decided to bat upon winning the toss and were aiming for a 200 plus total but their opponents who are playing as a team for the first time this season, had other ideas.
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Off-spinner Terrence Madramootoo and right-arm fast bowler Seon Daniels had impressive opening spells that set back the free scoring Pakistanis. In the end the 2016 champions were bowled out in the final over for 111 with middle order batsman Jahanzeb Alam hitting a patient 36 from 45 balls (1×4; 1×6) to rebuild the innings after his team was struggling at 46-6 in the ninth over. Umer Farooq hit 17 (7 balls; 2×4; 1×6) at the top of the order but no other batsman got going against the quality bowling which was backed up by superb fielding.
Wasim Haslim mopped up the tail to finish with 3-5 from 3 overs while left-arm seamer Deveshwari Prasad (2-20), Madramootoo (2-22) and Daniels (2-26) took care of the top and middle orders as the work load and returns were shared evenly.
Muhammed Khali (2-20) and Wahab Munir (1-25) then sent back the consistent Chris Patadin (14) and Haslim for a duck while Wahid Ward also fell for a duck in his first game as NY XI were reduced to 22-3 in the third over.
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