The Grizzly Bear European Cricket International (ECI) Spanish T20I Tri-Series had its second day, today, of this season. Spain and Germany were able to add two points each today. Spain defeated Italy by 4 wickets in today’s first match while Germany defeated Spain by 36 runs in today’s second match.
In today’s first match, Italy won the toss and elected to bat first against Spain. Batting first, Italy made a total of 161 runs on board, losing four wickets and playing full overs. Grant Stewart provided a strong start to the team who made 48 runs off 26 balls in the game. Waleed Rana 25(20), Marcus Campopiano 19(18), Anik Ahmed 26(27) and Gian-Piero Meade 27(26) supported the inning of Italy to put a respectable target against Spain. Dinuk Samarawickrama was the other batter from Italy to play in the first inning of the game. He made a single run off 5 balls.
Spain utilized six of its bowlers against Italy. Lorne Burns took two wickets for the team while Mohammad Kamran and Yasir Ali took a wicket each for the team. Spain conceded 15 runs as extras to Italy.
Batting second in the game, Spain made 165/6 in 19 overs to win the game. Yasir Ali was the top scorer for Spain in the game. He made 43 runs off 40 balls. Daniel Doyle-Calle 21(14), Mohammad Yasin 27(19), Prince Dhiman 1(3), Hamza Saleem Dar 19(17), Lorne Burns (2), Christian Munoz-Mills 33(16) and Muhammad Ihsan 5(6) were the other batters for Spain in the second inning of the game.
Italy utilized seven different bowlers against Spain in the game. Anik Ahmed and Damith Kosala took two wickets each for the team. Gian-Piero Meade and Marcus Campopiano took a wicket each for the team. Italy conceded 12 runs as extra runs to Spain in the game.
Yasir Ali was the Man of the match in today’s first match.
In the second match of today, in the series, Spain won the toss and elected to field first.
Batting first, Germany made 131/7 in 20 overs. Talha Khan was the high scorer for Germany making 27 runs off 26 balls. Dylan Blignaut 24(18), Justin Broad22(27), Michael Richardson 19(21), Joshua van Heerden 14(18), Sahir Naqash 7(7), Muslim Ashraf 7*(4) were the other scorers for the team. Dieter Klein got a golden duck in the game.
Charlie Rumistrzewicz, Mohammad Kamran and Yasir Ali took 3, 2 and 1 wickets respectively for Spain. Spain conceded 11 runs as extras to Germany, in the game.
Coming to chase the target of 132 runs in the second inning, Spain lost their openers Daniel Doyle-Calle and Mohammad Yasin for 4(15) and 13(10) respectively. Yasir Ali, in at 3, got duck. Prince Dhiman 10(18), Lorne Burns 8(12), Hamza Saleem Dar 2(5), Christian Munoz-Mills 18(22), Muhammad Ihsan 2(4), Mohammad Kamran 17(15), Charlie Rumistrzewicz 8*(7) and Raja Adeel 1(4) were the other players batting from Spain in the game. Spain was packed at 95 runs in 19 overs against Germany.
Germany utilized 5 players against Spain in the game and each of them took two wickets for the team. The bowlers Germany utilized were namely Dieter Klein, Rasul Ahmadi, Muslim Ashraf, Sri Vishnu Barathi and Joshua van Heerden. Germany conceded 12 extras to Spain in the game.
Joshua van Heerden was the Man of the match in today’s second match.
The only unbeaten team in the series so far, Germany, is leading the points table with 6 points. Germany collected 4 points yesterday against Italy (more details).
