HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – A tidy all-round efficiency from their captain, Delray Rawlins, enabled hosts Bermuda to march to their fourth win in a row after they beat Panama by 5 wickets within the ICC Males’s Twenty20 World Cup Americas Area Finals on Wednesday.
Rawlins was probably the most profitable Bermudian bowler, taking a flattering three for ten from his allotted 4 overs together with his left-arm spin, and the Panamanians have been restricted to 86 for 9 from their allocation of 20 overs within the second match of a doubleheader on the Nationwide Stadium.
Batting at 4, he then ushered his aspect over the end line with a prime rating of 33 not out. He shared an unbroken 26 for the sixth wicket with Zeko Burgess, not out on 19, to formalize the win after pacer Yusuf Ebrahim grabbed three wickets in 5 balls and had Bermuda wobbling on 63 for 5.
Rawlins pulled pacer Rahul Ahir behind sq. for the final of his three fours that adorned his innings together with two sixes to keep up the proper report of the Bermudians within the four-team match that can qualify one crew for the 2024 world showpiece being staged from June 4 to 30 within the Caribbean and america.
Within the day’s opening match, Canada adopted up robust batting led by Pargat Singh with damaging bowling and thumped the Cayman Islands by 166 runs in a one-sided contest.
Left-arm pacer Kaleem Sana was the decide of the Canadian bowlers with 4 for 18 from his 4 overs, and the Caymanians – chasing 197 to win – have been bowled out for a modest 30 in 11.3 overs – tying with Thailand and Mali (twice) for the seventh lowest T20I complete of all-time.
Nikhil Dutta hastened the end with three for none from 1.3 overs, fellow off-spinner Harsh Thaker supported with two for 5 from his 4 overs, and no Caymanian batter made greater than 5 from their Barbados-born captain Ramon Sealy.
Earlier, Singh cracked seven fours and two sixes within the prime rating of 82 from 60 balls and anchored Canada to 196 for 5 after they selected to bat.
He added 75 with opener Navneet Dhaliwal to provide the innings early momentum earlier than he was dismissed within the seventeenth over.
Barbados Delight left-hander Nicholas Kirton supported with 32, and Dhaliwal made 29; Conroy Wright bagged two for 38 from his 4 overs for Caymans.
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