| UAE Struggled and fell Mangalam

Geelong (Melbourne): Holland started with a win in Twenty20 Cricket World Cup. They beat UAE by three wickets in their first Group A match.

Batting first, UAE He scored 111 runs for the loss of eight wickets. Batting back, Holland scored the winning run with one ball to spare. Junaid Siddique’s brilliant bowling brought the Dutch to the brink of defeat. Junaid took three wickets conceding 24 runs. Basil Hamid, Ayan Afzal Khan, Karthik Meiyappan and Zahoor Khan took one wicket each.

Opener Max O’Dowd (23 off 18 balls including a six and three fours), skipper Scott Edwards (16 not out off 19 balls) and Tim Pringle (15 off 16 balls) led the team to victory. At one point the U.A.E. He made it seem like he would win.

Tim Pringle’s catch was decisive in the match. Pringle should have been out on the very first ball he faced when Pringle caught UAE. The hero and Malayali C.P. Rizwan left. Pringle came alive and scored 15 runs in the last overs which changed the course of the game. When he got out in the 19th over, the player had brought the team close to victory.

Opener Mohammad Wasim (41 off 47 balls including two sixes and a four) is the UAE’s top scorer. Top scorer. Vrithya Aravind (18) and Kasif Daud (15) also batted well. The middle order was a setback for them. Skipper Rizwan (one), Zawar Farid (two), Basil Hameed (four) and Ayan (five) disappointed. For the Dutch, Bas de Leed conceded 19 runs and took three wickets. Fred Klaasen took two wickets and Tim Pringle and Reelof van der Merwe took one wicket each. Bas d’Leed is the star of the match.