Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Pakistan beat Dutch XI with 7 runs!
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:10:06 EDT
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>

Joost Helberg <jhelberg@nl.oracle.com> asked me to post this since his
news-server is on the fritz and the sysadmin pundits haven't figured
out how to fix it yet:

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Sun Aug 30 :

Pakistan loses ALL wickets with 192 runs!

Dutch lost: 185 for 5 in 35 overs.

The match was limited to 35 overs because of rain.

The Pakistan team won the toss and started batting (1 o'clock), they
started pretyy quick: fours and sixes all over the place. That is why
all but the last pakistani were caught!

Groeneveld took Sohail, Akram and Fazal for 52 runs! Most of the
Pakistani batted good, all having two figures in the batting list.
Ul Haq made 49 runs (he could have ran 3 runs during the flight of
his last ball, it was caight though by Oosterom). Wasim Akram batted
not that good until he switched to his Magic Bat: two sixes etc..

After another shower (30 minutes, both teams fielded in wet grass) the
dutch batted.
Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis started bowling of course (7 overs bowling
allowed). Peter Cantrell end Rob Vos opened, both being good openers.
Peter Cantrell scored a good 35 (not too slow), but Vos, I'm sorry to
say, made the dutch loose the game: at a score of 47 he hesitated so much,
being afraid of not getting to 50 runs, he didn't score more than 3 runs
in 5 overs! Our 5.5 runs per over were gone!

After Gomes stroke his traditional 10 runs (or 12), Nolan `King' Clarke
came in (much too late, if you ask me). He had to get 10 runs per
over together with (still) Rob Vos.

Clarke batted two overs against Salim Malik and (not sure) Sohail(?) and
faced the last 6 overs Wasim Akram: 60 runs to make!

Wen know that Clarke is able to do that, but against Akram? Well he did what
he could, Wasim Akram working hard to keep the score low. Clarke made 50 runs,
not being able to score the last 7 runs, Akram was too good, and he surely is!
Clarke was not out (normally he plays everything or nothing, so not out is
rare), but happy with his 50.

It was nice to see that during change of over, children crowded the pakistan
fielders at the boundary to get signatures, 2/3 of the public was Pakistan.

Lucky we got: 7 minutes on the dutch TV that evening.

I'm sorry not being able to present a scoring card, I made pictures during
the game (Anyone interested????), so could'nt score. The papers only write
about dutch batting scores and that is it! I will post the scores
later.


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