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DELIVERING WORLD-CLASS EVENTS // ICC U19 CRICKET WORLD CUP 2020 QUALIFIERS ASIA DIVISION 1
CLEAN SWEEP TAKES UAE TO SOUTH AFRICA
United Arab Emirates will compete in their second ICC U19 Cricket World Cup but their first as qualifiers
MAIN: Kuwait’s Hamza Ahmed Qureshi celebrates with Meet Bhavsar. BELOW: Aryan Lakra of UAE.
A comprehensive 10-wicket win over Oman in their final match enabled the United Arab Emirates to qualify for the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2020 in South Africa.
It is the first time a UAE team has won a place at the Under-19 World Cup through the qualification process, although they did compete in the 2014 competition as hosts.
The UAE won all five of their fixtures at the Asia Division 1 series, which was held between April 12 and April 18, 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Nepal, looking to qualify for the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup for the eighth time after reaching the quarter-finals in 2016, won four of their five matches and might consider themselves somewhat unlucky not to be going forward in UAE’s place, having lost out to their rivals by the narrowest margin on a rain-affected second day.
Having been asked to bat first when UAE won the toss at the Kinrara Academy Oval, Nepal set their opponents a challenging 248 to win after Hari Chauhan (67 not out) and Bhim Sharki (53) had put on 92 for the sixth wicket.
After a poor start to the reply, in which openers Syed Haider and Aryan Lakra were both dismissed inside the first five overs, Ansh Tandon (54) and Vriitya Aravind (47 not out) added 101 for the third wicket but at 122 for three after 30 overs the UAE still had plenty to do.
However, rain began to fall at that moment and no further play was possible. The result was decided on DLS with the calculation giving the UAE victory by one run.
The UAE had opened the tournament with a five-wicket win over the hosts, needing until the 48th over to reach a target of 206, but were not stretched by any other opponent. They dismissed Kuwait for 56, skipper Lakra taking five for 22 with his left-arm spin, and took only eight overs to win by seven wickets, before seeing off Singapore by nine wickets and Oman by 10 wickets, chasing down a target of 106 with almost 38 overs to spare.
Lakra, who was named player of the tournament, finished as leading wicket-taker with 13 victims. He also made two half-centuries, as did Haider, who scored 189 runs at 37.80.
Nepal won all of their other matches by comfortable margins. Their bowling proved too much for Singapore, who were dismissed for 65 to lose by 217 runs; Oman, all out for 79 in a 150-run defeat; and Malaysia, who were bowled out for 92 before Nepal eased home by eight wickets.
In their final match, they dismissed Kuwait for 157 in 49.4 overs, and although the test was a
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