BHUTAN SEND BRUNEI PACKING

Bhutan easily closed the game against Brunei winning by 9 wickets in a match completely dominated by the sheer bowling genius of Lakshmi Prasad Kami.

After their eight wicket collapse against Oman, Bhutan were determined to win today against Brunei. They started well.

Akhshar Mody fell to the very first delivery of the game, leg before to a ball which, pitching on middle and climbing, may actually have been going over the stumps.

The Bhutanese pace-men have been bowling consistently well throughout this tournament, showing blistering pace coupled with good line and length. They took another wicket in the fourth over when Mahbub Shavez (4) was caught napping in front of the wicket when the ball hit his pads. The Brunei batsman were finding it hard just to connect bat onto ball.

With the batsmen playing away from the body and turning sideways awkwardly to avoid the ball hitting them, they were demonstrably in fear of the pace-bowlers, unfortunately. This was projected by the runs scored in the early overs. None of them had come from any positive stroke. Most were either byes or extras with the batsmen only managing a few odd singles.

An overly often incident

Kami – The destroyer

It was through this cautious kind of play that Brunei lost their third. Rahat Mahbub (2) left a massive gap between bat and pad as the ball crashed through his unprotected wickets. Brunei, were once again, doing all they could to bat the entire 40 overs and the run rate at the end of the fifteenth over was a low 1.93. In such a situation there's only so long a batsman can hang on playing safe and when Rajeev Jayakumar (4) went on the offensive for a drive, he had his stumps uprooted.

Kami delivered both speed and accuracy

With the pace-men finishing their eight overs on the trot, spinners Jigme Singye (1-2) and Lakshmi Kami (5-0) were brought in to bowl. Singye dismissed Abhishek Gurung (0) in his very first over. Singye's high flight of the ball was enough to tempt the new batsman as he was stranded out of his crease to be stumped. Even flinging his bat to get back safe wasn't enough to save him from getting out. Kami, got in the action with five wickets in his first two overs to knock off the Brunei batsmen as they finished off at 33 after 21.2 overs.

The game turned out to be a no-contest as Bhutan won the game in four overs. They now face their biggest test when they play Qatar, who is without doubt, the strongest side of this group, tomorrow at the Prem Tinsulanonda ground.

Man of the Match: Lakshmi Prasad Kami

Five wickets and no runs conceded was reason enough for Lakshmi Prasad Kami to collect his first Man of the Match award of this tournament.

Bhutan v Brunei, Chiang Mai Gymkhana Ground
Brunei won the toss and chose to bat
BHUTAN WON BY 9 WICKETS
Brunei: 33 off 21.2 overs (L. Kami 5-0)
Bhutan: 34 – 1 after 4 overs

Man of the Match: Lakshmi Prasad Kami (Bhutan)

ACC Under-15 Challenge Cup 2006
Match Report

Match: Brunei Vs. Bhutan
Played At: Chiengmai Gymkhana Club
Date: 17 December 2006
Captains: Rajeev Jayakumar (Brunei), Jigme Singye (Bhutan)
Toss won by: Brunei
Elected to: Field

Umpires: Mr. Mukund Mehta, Mr. A.K. Rana
Scorers: Puteh Horsalasiah

Result: Bhutan won by 9 wickets

Man of the Match: Lakshmi Prasad Gajmer

INNINGS OF: Brunei (SIDE BATTING FIRST)

No.	Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
1	Akshar Mody	lbw	THINLEY JAMTSHO	0	1	-	-
2	Rahat Mahbub	bowled	THINLEY JAMTSHO	2	22	-	-
3	Muhamad Shavez Cheema	lbw	DILIP SUBBA	4	14	-	-
4	Harry Pygos	ct SANJEEVAN RAJ GURUNG	LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER	6	51	-	-
5	Rajeev Jayakumar	bowled	DILIP SUBBA	4	12	-	-
6	Abhishek Kirti Gurung	st.wk. KENCHO NORBU	JIGME SINGYE	0	5	-	-
7	John Kottayil Thomas	not out		0	12	-	-
8	Ramesh Namasivayam	bowled	LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER	0	5	-	-
9	Ronish Darnal BK	lbw	LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER	0	4	-	-
10	Akmal Aji	bowled	LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER	0	1	-	-
11	Krutik Mody	bowled	LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER	0	1	-	-
Extras: NB - 0 / Wides- 11 / Byes - 4 / L.Byes - 2 / Penalties -				17
Provisional Score for Innings ....				33
Penaliteis Awarded in Other Innings ....				-
Final Score for 10 Wkts				33	128	-	-

Fall of Wickets	1/0	2/10	3/16	4/31	5/33	6/33	7/33	8/33	9/33	10/33
Batsman No.	1	3	2	5	6	4	8	9	10	11
Overs	0.1	3.5	8.6	15.2	16.6	17.3	19.2	19.6	21.1	21.2

BOWLING ANALYSIS

No.	Bowler	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	N.B.
1	THINLEY JAMTSHO	8	2	9	2	2	-
2	DILIP SUBBA	8	0	16	2	7	-
3	JIGME SINGYE	3	2	2	1	1	-
4	LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER	2.2	2	0	5	0	-
5
6
7
8

INNINGS STARTED AT: 10.00 AM, CLOSED AT: 11.46 PM

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INNINGS OF: Bhutan (SIDE BATTING SECOND)

No.	Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
1	THINLEY JAMTSHO	not out		21	13	3	-
2	SANJEEVAN RAJ GURUNG	bowled	John Kottayil Thomas	4	5	1	-
3	JIGME SINGYE	not out		5	7	-	-
4	KENCHO NORBU	dnb		-	-	-	-
5	LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER	dnb		-	-	-	-
6	KINLEY WANGCHUK	dnb		-	-	-	-
7	Dechen wangchuk	dnb		-	-	-	-
8	Nar Bahadur Burathoki Mongar	dnb		-	-	-	-
9	DILIP SUBBA	dnb		-	-	-	-
10	PEMA THINLEY	dnb		-	-	-	-
11	ANAND CHHETRI	dnb		-	-	-	-
Extras: NB - 1 / Wides- 3 / Byes - 0 / L.Byes - 0 / Penalties -				4
Provisional Score for Innings ....				34
Penaliteis Awarded in Other Innings ....				-
Final Score for 1 Wkts				34	25	4	0

Fall of Wickets	1/15	2/	3/	4/	5/	6/	7/	8/	9/	10/
Batsman No.	2
Overs	1.5

Bowling Analysis

No.	Bowler	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	N.B.
1	Rajeev Jayakumar	2	0	14	0	1	1
2	John Kottayil Thomas	2	0	15	1	2	0
3
4
5
6
7
8

INNINGS STARTED AT: 12.00 PM, CLOSED AT: 12/21 PM