Publish: 09:52, 09 Jun, 2024

Uganda equals lowest T20 total

Five-star Akeal Hosein powers West Indies blow Uganda away

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Five-star Akeal Hosein powers West Indies blow Uganda away
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Akeal Hosein scythed through Uganda in a sublime opening spell, using his swinging seam-up delivery to devastating effect, plundering five wickets for 11 runs.

That spell sent West Indies hurtling to a 134-run victory on a slow Providence deck. The seamers backed Hosein's spell up, delivering some excellent wicket-balls of their own. Together they sent Uganda crashing to 39 all out - their lowest ever T20I total, reports ESPN. 

Earlier, in difficult batting conditions, Johnson Charles struck 44 off 42, and Andre Russell cracked 30 not out off 17, as West Indies willed their way to 173 for 5.

Uganda were doughty with the ball, and despite at least two missed chances, generally good in the field. Though several West Indies batters made starts, Uganda's slow bowlers in particular, found ways to peg them back.

Hosein wrecks Uganda's top order

It was a spell of dreams. From the outset it was clear that when Hosein chose to put revs into the ball, he would get good turn the first ball - a left-arm spinner's stock ball - ragging past Roger Mukasa's outside edge.

But it was Hoseins mastery of drift/swing and his impeccable control that gave him the most venom in this game. The next ball to Mukasa was a seam-up ball that curved in and struck the sweeping batter in front of middle and off. Next over, the ball that struck Alpesh Ramjani in front of middle had also moved in the air, late.

Riazat Ali Shah, perhaps Uganda's best batter, was beaten even more emphatically by the swinging seam-up ball, watching it crash into middle stump.

Then in his last over - the seventh of the innings - Hosein dismissed Dinesh Nakrani and Kenneth Waiswa, the first bowled the second another lbw, again using movement in the air before pitching. He left Uganda flailing at 23 for 7, all their batting resources spent, and with little hope of even surpassing the 58 they'd made against Afghanistan last week - their previous lowest score.

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