2010-01-09
u19's Finishes Auckland stay at 1-1

Canada lost its second and final game in Auckland falling to the Auckland XI side in a rain affected match. 

Canada moves on to Christchurch to begin the u19 Cricket World Cup

2010-01-07
u19's Off to Winning Start

Canada's trip to the u19 Cricket World Cup got off to a great start with a convincing 78 run victory over an Auckland u19 XI side.

Canada won the toss and batted first amassing an impressive 255-6 led by Ruvindu Gunasekara's opening knock of 89. The rest of the top order managed to get starts anad add onto the total including an impressive 44 from Nitish Kumar which was built during the batting powerplay taken in the final overs.

In reply Auckland was unable to muster much of a reply with both Hardik Kotak and Manny Aulakh picking up early wickets.

Brief Scores

Canada u19 XI (255-6) def Auckland u19 XI (177-7) by 78 runs

Ruvindu Gunasekara b 89
Hiral Patel b 26
Rustam Bhatti c 21
Usman Limbada c 33
Nitish Kumar lbw 44
Asif Manjara 12*

Hardik Kotak 5-25-1
Maninder Aulakh 6-20-1
Zain Mahmood 6-13-1
Hiral Patel 7-25-0
Nitish Kumar 8-31-1
Riyazkhan Pathan 10-15-1
Ruvindu Gunasekara 2-9-0

Canada vs. West Indies u19

   Canada fell short of drawing level in 

   the two match series against West

   Indies u19 at Warner Park in St. Kitts

   today. Batting first, Canada's openers

   Hiral Patel (25) and Ruvindu 

   Gunasekara (16) started positively 

   reaching 25-0 in the first 5 overs. From

   then on Canada's batsmen struggled  

   to get into a rhythm losing wickets at

   regular intervals. Darius D'Souza top

   scored with 26 runs but there was little

   support from the top order as Canada's

   innings ended at 125 all out from 42

   overs.

   In reply West Indies raced out of the

   gate picking up 51 runs from the first  

   10  overs with 9 wickets in tact before 

   the rains came halting play. After the 

   delay  it was more of the same from

   the West  Indies as they reached the

   target in 26 overs for the loss of only 4

   wickets

   Full Scorecard

   We hope you enjoyed following along

   on Twitter and encourage you to join 

   us again for our next u19 match from

   St. Kitts against St. Kitts u23.

   If you missed today's game click here

   to follow Cricket Canada on Twitter to

   recieve updates, scores and breaking

   news