'' THE MIDDLE EAST CUP IN KUWAIT "

FIRST MATCH BETWEEN IRAN AND HOST COUNTRY KUWAIT 


Iran's national team of Cricket have played his first match against the Host country Kuwait .They have bat first and they scored 347 runs for the lost of 5 wicket , for Iran Nariman  and Ghani took two wicket for 78 and 42 runs in 10 and five over respectively. For Kuwait Nawaz scored 92 runs .
When Iran have started his batting they scored 122 runs in 44 over and were all out. Nariman, scored 46 Not out and Sher Mohammd and Abdul Gaffar scored 24 and 16 runs. For Kuwait Hassan Arif took 4 wicket for giving 29 runs in 10 over.

Nawaz was declared man of the match for his 92 runs.
 


Regarging the second match we lost to Bahrain,

Bahrain batting first scored 402 runs, Manzoor Hossein Zakari took two wickets for 65 runs in 8 overs Abdul Majed(Butto) took two wickets for 40 runs in 10 overs For Bahrain Asghar scored 154 runs and Abdul Wahed scored 62 Runs.

Iran Ba tting second scored 151 Runs for all out in 45.5 overs
Sher Mohammad 19 Runs
Abdul Jaffar  32 Runs
Nariman      24 Runs
Attnan        13 Runs
Loghman      13 Runs
Gulaftab      10 Runs
Abldul Ghaniu 11 Runs

For bahrain Tahir, Ashraf, Qamar and Faud took two wicket each for
24, 22, 09, 25 Runs respectively,

 

                                                     IRAN  V/S SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia thrashed minnows Iran by a huge margin of 223 runs in the last league round match played at Entertainment city ground on February 23, 2006 in the ACC Middle East Cup 2006.

Winning the toss & batting first, Saudi Arabia lost their flamboyant opener Fahd Sulaiman earlier for 18 runs but Shahabaz the other opener  displayed one of the best batting performances as he mastered the Iranian attack and played some attractive strokes to keep the Saudi score moving.score sixes. Hayath gave solid support to Shahabaz to score 24 runs. Anyway, it was Soharab the Saudi middle order batsman who then joined Shahabaz as the two plundered runs at will. Both combined so well that their partnership of 143 runs paved way for Saudi tot a huge total. Shahabaz scored a elegant 102 runs which contained 11 fours and 2 huge sixes before Abdul Majid had him caught by Shoukat. Saudi would have posted a much bigger total had not Abdul Ghaffar the Iranian bowler cut inroads to the Saudi batting line up by having Soharab caught by Loghman for a handsome 95 runs which had 4 hits to the fence & 3 towering sixes. Sarfraz was the only other batsman to put up some resistant by a cameo 42 runs as Saud Arabia were all out for 347 runs. Abdul Ghaffar excelled with a  fine spell of 5 for 55 runs while Abdul Majid took 2/55, Abdul Ghani 1/30 & Nariman 1/55.

Anyway the new look Iranian team impressed everyone in their maiden tour to Kuwait as they played up to their potentials to match their much fancied opponents. Sher Mohammed and Abdul Ghaffar steadied the innings but were no match for Saudi bowlers. Iranian batsmen showed their willingness to stick to the wicket but withered away in front of the hostile Saudi attack. Abdul Ghani who played well scored 20 runs  and the Iranians were all out for 124 runs. Shehazad was the most successful bowler for Saudi Arabia with 4/36, while Irfan 3/20, Fahd 1/5, Sarfraz 1/10 & Soharab 1/24 accounted for other wickets

                                                                   THE FINIAL  MATCH

Friday 24th February 2006.

Umpires: Saleem Bader , Riaz-ud-Din
Reserve Umpire : Mahmoud Ahmed
Scoreres: Shafiq Salimee, Syed Hassan
Referee: Muhammad Riaz Chaudhry
Toss: Bahrain
Result: Bahrain won the match and Tournament.
 

Man of the Match:Asgher Bajwa (Bahrain)
Man of the Series: Agher Bajwa (Bahrain)

Afghanistan: Team (Raes Ahmedzai, Karim Sadiq , Nasar,Nowroz Mangal , Hastigul, M. Nabi, Dowlat Ahmadzai, Simi Shinwari, Noor Ali, Shapoor Zadran (Super Sub: Mohd. Asgher)

         
  Batsmen How out Bowler Runs Balls 4's 6's
1 Karim Sadiq c. Yaser Sadeq Rizwan Baig 15 23 2  
2 Nasir C. Asgher Ashraf 49 63 6 1
3 Noor Ali C. Rizwan Tahir Dar 31 39 3  
4 Nowroz Bowld Asgher 19 39 2  
5 Raees Ahmedzai C. Rizwan Asghar 36* 67    
6 Simi Shinwari* Run out (Ashraf)   7 7 1  
7 Mohd. Nabi Bowled Qammar 0 1    
8 Hastigul Stump Qammar 2 7    
9 Asghar(Super Sub) C. Zaheer Asghar 18 29    
10 Shapoor Stump Qammer 3 5    
11 Hameed Hasan Not out   1* 2    
  Super Sub : Mohd. Asgher        
  Extras wide 9, Byes 4    
  Total (all out in 48.4 Overs) 194
 
Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-88, 3-100, 4-144, 5-154, 6-155, 7-161, 8-189, 9-192,10- 194    


 
  Bowlers O M R W  
1 Yaser Sadeq 7 0 45 0  
2 Rizwan Baig 7 0 31 1  
3 Qammar Saeed 9.4 0 34 3  
4 Asgher Bajwa * 7 0 19 3  
5 Ashraf 8 2 29 1  
6 Tahir Dar * 10 0 32 1  
7            
8            
9            

Bahrain:
Yaser Sadeq, Ashraf Baig, Rizwan Baig, Abdul Waheed(WK), Asghar Bajwa, Tahir Dar, Qammar Saeed, Akmal Malik, Fahad Sadeq, Mohd. Yaqoob, Zaheer Zafar(Super Sub : Azeem Ul Haq)

 
                                                                                                                                        
  Batsmen How out Bowler Runs           Balls                        4's                6's
1 Rizwan Baig Run out (Kareem)   0 4    
2 Fahad Sadeq Retired Hurt NOT OUT 11* 18 2  
3 Abdul Waheed c. Kareem Shahpoor 3 17    
4 Asgher Bajwa LBW Raees 63 102 5 1
5 Ashraf Baig C. Sami Nabi 48 61 7 1
6 Tahir Dar Bowled Nabi 6 14    
7 Azeem Ul Huq C. Nasir Nabi 5 20    
8 Qamar Saeed Bowled Nasir 6 13 1  
9 Akmal Malik   NOT OUT 30* 24 5  
10 Yaqoob   NOT OUT 0* 1    
11              
  Extras NB 5, W 9, B 2 LB 7 23
  Total (195 for 7 wkts in 45.1Overs) 195
 

Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-19, 3-94, 4-112, 5-134, 6-144, 7-191,

   
  Bowlers O               M                  R                         W
1 Shapoor 5 0 21 1
2 Hastigul 5 2 21 0
3 Hamid Hassan 8 3 33 0
4 Nowroz 3 0 20 0
5 Sami 10 1 40 0
6 Mohd Nabi 10 3 22 3
7 Nasir 2 0 9 1
8 Karim 1.1 0 13 0
9 Raees 1 0 7 1