Umar Akmal helps Pakistan post 317-7 against Kenya

Pakistan’s Umar Akmal plays a shot during a Group A compare in a World Cup Cricket contest opposite Kenya during The Suriyawewa Mahinda Rajapakse International Cricket Stadium in a southern district of Hambantota. Akmal was a singular of 4 batsmen to measure half-centuries as Pakistan overcame a indolent begin to post 317-7 opposite Kenya in their opening World Cup Group A match.
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka (AFP) – Umar Akmal was a singular of 4 batsmen to measure half-centuries as Pakistan overcame a indolent begin to post 317-7 opposite Kenya in their opening World Cup Group A compare here upon Wednesday.

The 21-year-old right-hander, personification his initial World Cup match, tip scored with a 52-ball 71 as well as gave a innings a last develop with a fast glow 118-run mount for a fifth wicket with Misbah-ul-Haq who strike a 69-ball 65.

Umar’s elder brother, Kamran, notched 55 as well as comparison batsman Younis Khan done only 50 as Pakistan racked up 70 runs in a batting power-play upon a flat, grassless representation during a Mahinda Rajapakse stadium.

Haq, Pakistan’s most appropriate batsman in a new Test as well as one-day array in New Zealand, additionally combined 45 runs for a fourth wicket with Khan prior to giving procedure to a innings with Umar to assistance Pakistan put up an considerable total.

Haq, whose initial scoring shot was a six, strike a singular some-more 6 as well as a singular boundary, whilst Umar notched 8 bounds as well as a 6 prior to holing out off Thomos Odoyo who accomplished with 3-41, surrender twenty in wides in a sum of 46 extras.

Earlier, both Mohammad Hafeez as well as Ahmed Shahzad managed only 10 runs in a initial 5 overs with a new-ball span of Odoyo as well as Elijah Otieno bowling 3 maidens in between them.

Hafeez was a initial to go, unwell to keep a expostulate down as a diving Seren Waters picked up a pleasing locate during reduced mid-wicket.

Two overs later, Shahzad, who scored his initial run after thirteen deliveries, was held by skipper Jimmy Kamande off Odoyo to leave Pakistan struggling during 12-2.

Khan as well as Kamran regenerated a innings by a plain 98-run mount for a third wicket, pulling for singles off a little parsimonious bowling.

Kenya, who were shot out for 69 runs in their initial compare opposite New Zealand in a 10-wicket detriment upon Sunday, marred a early great work with haphazard bowling via a Pakistan innings.