BIK vs EUR

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MATCH SUMMARY

British and Irish Knights won by 23 runs

Harrison Ward 102(32) | Toby Greatwood 3/25(2)
Nicolaj Damgaard 65(24) | Nooruddin Mujaddady 2/34(2)

British and Irish Knights have leveled the scores in the Weston Shield as they register their first victory over Team Europe and make the equation 1-all with everything to play for in the upcoming matches in this 9-match series.

In the end, it proved to be a rather comfortable victory for BIK who put in an all-round performance who were the better team both with the ball as well as with the bat and have come up trumps.

Chasing 171, team Europe got off to a horrible start as they lost two wickets in the first over and they just could not recover from there one. It kept getting worse for them and the 3-wicket over from Greatwood to end the powerplay put them completely out of the contest as they were left tottering at 30/6.

Damgaard showed that it was not so tough to bat as he smacked his way to a powerful 65 but that was never going to be enough for Team Europe who had been blown away early. A spectacular blitz in the end from Khalid Ahmadi who scored 37* off 9 balls ensured that Europe got a point out of this encounter which could prove to be very crucial and also reduced the margin of defeat.

The bowlers of BIK were spectacular with the ball and all of them barring Mike Frost, who bowled the last over had something to show for in the wickets column. Toby Greatwood was the pick of them with 3 wickets but a whole lot of credit needs to be given to Jack Jarvis who started it all of with 2 wickets in the first over.

Talking about giving credit, there was one man who deserved all the credit for the show he put on in the first innings with the bat. Harrison Ward scored a spectacular century, the first one of the Weston Shield and was largely responsible for taking BIK to 170 as he blazed away to 32-ball 102 which included 12 maximums.

9.6 Mike Frost to Khalid Ahmadi, SIX! Full on middle and leg, thumped over deep mid-wicket to end the match on a high. Still, British and Irish Knights beat Team Europe by 23 runs.

9.5 Mike Frost to Khalid Ahmadi, short and angling in, misses the pull this time. The keeper takes bails off but the batter never left the crease.

Ahmadi goes BANG BANG and the solitary point for Team Europe is confirmed now. They have been outplayed though and just formalities remain in this contest with the last over coming up

Khalil Ahmadi, RHB, is the new batter.

Another spectacular catch from Jonty Jenner and it brings to a close a very good knock from Damgaard, team Europe still need 11 runs to get a point out of this match and they are 8 down

8.1 Tim Tector to Nicolaj Damgaard, CAUGHT! STUNNER! Full on middle and leg, hits it high and straight, long on runs to his right, dives and maintains is shape to hold on to it. 

Nicolaj Damgaard c Jonty Jenner b Tim Tector 65 (24b, 3x4, 8x6).

The 50 of the partnership has come up as well and this has been a good rearguard action from these two but having said that they are miles away from the target and this match is definitely going in only one direction.