Afghanistan Cricket Team beat Netherlands by 5 wickets

Afghanistan cricket Team on Saturday defeated Netherland by 5 wickets to qualify for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Netherland players managed to score 256 by losing 9 wickets and set up a target of 257 for the Afghan cricket palyers.

A tremendous contribution by Karim Sadiq after scoring his second One-Day International centruy helped Afghanistan clinch a five-wicket win over the Netherlands in the second One-Day International at Sharjah.

Both Afghanistan and Netherlands kept themselves in the contention during the two day match series which was organized to qualify for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Three Netherlands batsmen Tom Cooper, Michael Swart and Wesley Barresi managed to score half centuries while from Afghanistan side Karim Sadiq managed to struck 100 in 74 balls, and Javid Ahmadi and captain Navroz Mangal stroked 43 runs.

Afghan bowler Izatullah Dawlatzai took four wickets by giving 38 runs where Karim Sadiq managed to hit 12 fours and four sixes.

Netherlands and Afghanistan scored 6 points following Ireland and UAE at the ICC World Cricket League Championship where Kenya secure 4 points and Namibia and Kenya secure 0 points.

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MTC lauds Cricket Namibia

The One Day 50-over matches will be of crucial importance since they will count towards qualification for the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

“The upcoming game is of critical importance to our cricket team and I therefore wish to encourage all Namibians to come out and support the team,” he said.

The coach of Canada, Michael Dighton said they were looking forward to the contest and hoped to give Namibia a good run for their money.

“Namibia showed how good they are at the T20 Qualifiers. They are very well coached and led. It’s a shame that six teams won’t be qualifying for the T20 Wold Cup because then both Namibia and us would have made it,” he said.

“We are looking forward to give you a good game in the I-Cup and the two one-dayers,” he added.

The CEO of Cricket Namibia Graham MacMillan said that the One Day 50-over matches would be crucial since the two top teams at the end of the Intercontinental Cup tournament would qualify automatically for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Two more places will be filled via a qualification tournament.

News source by:- http://www.namibiasport.com.na/