Intercontinental Cup Thread (matches not involving Zim XI)

[maehara]

Ireland v Netherlands and Scotland v Afghanistan both begin today. The second of those is of most interest to us - a Scottish win would make out chances of qualifying for the final a little easier, but ironically would make it hard to top the table. Good chance Afghanistan will knock us down to third, though.

The other match is Netherlands' final fixture, and they're out of the running for the final. Ireland are still in with an outside chance of reaching it, though, if they can take full points from their remaining three matches - and since they've won the last three tournaments, they won't be wanting to give up their title without a fight...

[jamthala]

Match delayed - rain - Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat

Netherlands 86/4

[jamthala]

Afghanistan 115/1

Mohammad Shahzad 25* Karim Sadiq 48* GD Drummond 6.4-1-17-0 RM Haq 3-2-1-0

[jamthala]

Afghanistan 349/5 (96.0 ov)

Scotland

afghan playing very well

[jamthala]

Netherlands 188

Ireland 88/2 (22.1 ov)

[maehara]

Ireland v Netherlands: Observatory Lane, Rathmines, Dublin, 11-13 August 2010 (Match 16)
Netherlands 188 (64 overs; Diepeveen 41, Dockrel 4/36) & 136 (40 overs; Borren 37, Eastwood 4/62)
Ireland 408 (105.1 overs; White 144, Mohammad Kashif 5/53)
Ireland win by an innings and 84 runs

[jamthala]

Afghanistan 435 & 249/5d Scotland 139 & 95/2

looks like afghan will win this match

[maehara]

Don't understand why Afghanistan didn't make Scotland follow-on. They then went on and left their declaration very late, and the Scots have an outside chance of batting through the day tomorrow for a draw - which really wouldn't be a far result. Strange tactics.

[maehara]

Scotland v Afghanistan: Cambusdoon New Ground, Ayr, 11-14 August 2010 (Match 17)
Afghanistan 435 (126.5 overs; Samiullah Shenwari 102, Drummond 2/60) & 249/5 dec (61.5 overs; Mohamman Shahzad 105*, Haq 2/66)
Scotland 140 (61.5 overs; Nel 36, Hamid Hassan 6/40) & 316 (110.5 overs; Chalmers 67, Hamid Hassan 5/114)
Afghanistan win by 229 runs

Points Table (after 17 matches)

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                  Pl  W  L  T  D  A  Pts    Quot
1  Afghanistan     5  4  0  0  1  0   77   1.273
2  Scotland        5  3  1  0  1  0   69   0.957
3  Zimbabwe XI     4  3  0  0  1  0   63   1.470
4  Kenya           5  2  2  0  1  0   43   0.993
5  Ireland         4  1  1  0  2  0   32   1.181
6  Netherlands     6  0  5  0  1  0   15   0.737
7  Canada          5  0  4  0  1  0    9   0.730

[jamthala]

Don't understand why Afghanistan didn't make Scotland follow-on. They then went on and left their declaration very late, and the Scots have an outside chance of batting through the day tomorrow for a draw - which really wouldn't be a far result. Strange tactics.

i think afghan utilise all day play very well,which they need.
hamid a champion bowler.