All goes to plan in Bangladesh
Thursday, February 19 2004
At the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong, a disciplined bowling display from Uganda wasn't enough to challenge England, who made 259, with Lincolnshire's Luke Wright hitting 70 and Samit Patel 55.
In reply, England's seam partnership of Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan and Kent's David Stiff both took the incredible figures of 4-7, with leggie Mark Lawson taking the other two wickets as Uganda capitulated to 46 all out.
Pakistan continued their good start with an efficient win over Ireland, who struggled to 142, with Andrew Riddles top scoring with 35*. Mansoor Amjad was the pick of the bowlers with 4-28. In reply, the Irish never looked like constraining Pakistan as Adnan Zaheer made 64* and they needed just over half the overs to make it home.
Sri Lanka were more convincing against Canada than they had been against Zimbabwe, as Chamith Kulasekara took 5-27 to reduce the Canadians to 81, only four players making double figures. Harsha Vithana then hit a belligerent 52*, including 11 fours, as Sri Lanka coasted home.
Hosts Bangladesh despatched Scotland with little difficulty, as only Kyle Coetzer made double figures, hitting a brave 42 in Scotland's 95. Despite Nazimuddin falling without scoring, Naeem Islam and Nafis Iqbal finished the job inside 13 overs. Bangladesh now need to beat India to make the Super League.
So.. all went to plan on Day 3 - what would Day 4 yield?
Posted by Neil
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