Jacques Rudolph scored his third century in nine days as the South African A team romped to a 148-run victory over Kenya in a one-day match against Kenya at the Laudium Oval on Tuesday.The SA A team reached 274 for four in their 50 overs and theb bowled Kenya out for 126 in under 34 overs as Justin Kemp and Charl Langeveldt claimed five wickets apiece.Earlier in the day Rudolph, who made 109 for the Nicky Oppenheimer XI against India at Randjesfontein last Monday and 143 for the Titans against Free State in Bloemfontein on Tuesday, followed these scores with an unbeaten 134 against the Kenyans.Rudolph emerged as one of South Africa’s brightest young talents last summer and the rich vein of form he is presently mining must surely have marked him as a player with a bright international ahead of him.He may, however, have to wait his turn. The South African top three – Herschelle Gibbs, Gary Kirsten and Jacques Kallis – have been equally prolific in recent weeks, but if the 20-year-old Rudolph continues to accumulate runs in this fashion he could well force his way into the South African squad to tour Australia at the end of the year.Apart from Rudolph, Martin van Jaarsveld made 67 while Kemp bludgeoned 40 off 32 balls as the Kenyan attack took a pounding.The Kenyans were unable make any kind of fight of it with only Steve Tikolo offering meaningful resistance as he took 79 balls to make 59. Kemp started the rot with the wickets of Ravindu Shah and Kennedy Otieno and then Langeveldt joined in as the South African pair scythed through the batting.Kemp finished with five for 35 with Langeveldt taking five for 25.

Andrew Flintoff is a surprise addition to the list of contenders to succeed John Crawley as Lancashire’s new captain next season.The Lancashire all-rounder is in Zimbabwe with the England squad, where he is part of England’s one-day squad, but has let it be known that he would be interested in the job after the club decided to replace Crawley at theend of last season.”It’s something I’d love to do at Lancashire, I’d love to captain the side,”Flintoff admitted. “I’ve played for Lancashire since I was nine and it’s something I’d like to do.”Whether I would do it now is something I’d have to think about if and when Iwas asked.”I’m out here in Zimbabwe playing for England at the moment and that’s allthat’s been on my mind, but when I get back on Monday I’ll go and find outwhat’s been going on.”Flintoff has also telephoned the England coach Duncan Fletcher to ask if he can join the Academy squad due to visit Australia.”I rang up Duncan to see if I could go but I think there was a plan for myself and Owais to go anyway,” explained Flintoff.”There will be a lot of time to work on your game with the coaches and I’mexcited about going over there and hopefully I will come back a better player.”It’s a great opportunity to go to Australia and learn how they play the gameand how they approach cricket. They have some great coaches out there and I hopeto learn a lot from them.”If either Flintoff or Shah are included in England’s one-day squad for the series in India and New Zealand after Christmas, they will pull out of the Academy squad and join the senior party.

*Shafiq Khan props up HaryanaLargely thanks to Shafiq Khan’s gritty innings of 95, Haryana reacheda total of 275/8 by the close of play on the first day of their RanjiTrophy league match against Services at Faridabad.Winning the toss, Haryana’s captain Parender Sharma opted to bat.Three wickets fell for 59 before opener Chetan Sharma (73) and Shafiqstabilised the innings. Sharma departed with the score on 124, butShafiq put up solid stands with Ajay Ratra and S Vidyut, fallingfinally with the score on 270.At stumps, Haryana were 275/8, with Sumit Narwal and Amit Mishraunbeaten on three and one respectively.For Services, Sudhakar Ghag picked up four wickets for 72 runs,bowling a marathon 35 overs in the day. Hari Prasad took 3-101.*Punjab struggle on Day OneA fighting knock of 94 from captain Reetinder Singh Sodhinotwithstanding, Punjab found itself struggling at the close of playat 269/9 against Jammu and Kashmir in their Ranji Trophy league tieagainst Jammu.The home side, with their wider knowledge of the conditions, opted tobowl first; they struck immediately with the wicket of Manish Sharmawith the score on six. Yuvraj Singh fell soon, but the onlysignificant partnership of the innings then developed between RavneetRicket and Sodhi.Ricky fell for 68, with the score on 165. Wickets then fell at regularintervals, with Ashwani Gupta (3-72) and Jagtar Singh (2-74) cleaningup the middle-order.At stumps, Gagandeep Singh was unbeaten on 28 and Sanjay Dhull on one.Only one wicket remains to fall in Punjab’s first innings, and theywill have to bowl well to avoid losing face to a less-endowed opponent.*Delhi bowl out Himachal on Day OneWith Amit Bhandari and Arun Singh picking up three wickets apiece,Himachal Pradesh were bowled out for 167 on Day One of their RanjiTrophy league match against Delhi at Bilaspur.Winning the toss, Delhi captain Mithun Manhas put his opponents in tobat. His bowlers backed him up beautifully; three wickets fell for 26and five for 39. At 89/7, Himachal were in real danger of being bowledout for less than 100, but Shakti Singh batted (43) well with hisfellow tailenders to take the score to 167.Delhi lost Akash Chopra at 29, but Gautam Gambhir and RS Sharma tooktheir side to the close of play without further mishap. Gambhir wasunbeaten on 32, while Sharma was on 24. For Himachal, Sandeep Sharmawas the lone wicket-taker.

Sri Lanka finally ended Kandy jinx on the final tension-strewn day of thesecond Janashakthi National Test when they defeated West Indies by 131 runsin the descending gloom to win this three-Test series.But, boy, was it a close run thing. West Indies came within 16 minutes ofsaving the game thanks to a stubborn 59 run seventh wicket stand between MarlonSamuels and Mervyn Dillon and despite an umpiring blunder that robbed themof batting super star Brian Lara.West Indies went into the final hour with four wickets intact. MuttiahMuralitharan, once again the hero and the man of the match for the fourthtest running, was sending down over after over, spinning the ball the squareon a worn fifth day pitch, as a ring of squawky jack-in-the-box fieldersclosed in around the bat.The light was deteriorating quickly and Sanath Jayasuriya was unable to usefast bowler Chaminda Vaas for fear that the umpires would reach for theirlight meters and offer the light.The crowd, which had built up steadily throughout the day, grew more excitedwith each passing over, cheering each appeal and hooting theirdisappointment whenever the umpire failed to raise his finger.Samuels and Dillon had batted for 59 minutes and Sri Lankan hopes of forcinga victory were slipping away. But 18 minutes into the last hour, Dillonplayed over the top of a full-length delivery from Muralitharan and wasbowled.Samuels and Dinanath Ramnarine kept Muralitharan at bay for 15 more minutes,during which time Samuels passed fifty for the first time in the series,following scores of 16, 2, and 0.But just after the umpires had checked their light meters, which were surelyhovering on the danger zone, Samuels was trapped lbw for 54 as he stretchedacross his stumps. At 5.41pm Pedro Collins was comprehensively bowled byanother booming off-break and then the final disasterColin Stuart, who was banned for bowling in the first innings after lettingloose two beamers, suffered an equally calamitous dismissal as hesuccessfully defended his second ball from Muralitharan. However, cruelly,the ball spun backwards and slowly trickled towards his stumps with justenough velocity to knock off both bails.Three wickets had fallen in 12 balls. The Sri Lankans were cock-a-hoop andthe crowd joyous. A pale-faced West Indian manager Ricky Skerrit could beseen with his head in his hands. They felt they had been robbed. Certainlyan injustice had been done.Lara had played expertly after the loss of both openers before lunch. He hadbatted for two and a quarter hours for his 45 before he was wrongly adjudgedto have been caught at short leg off left-arm spinner NiroshanBandaratillake two balls after tea.The ball had come off the full face of the bat into the hands HashanTillakaratne who completed a brilliant reflex catch. The Sri Lankan closefielders started celebrating immediately and umpire Gamin Silva upheld theappeal. Lara stood aghast. His arms lifted in astonishment and he lingeredat the crease, before slowly trudging back to the pavilion.Television replays clearly indicated that the ball had been hit into theground. The third umpire watched powerless in front of his monitor, able tointervene with on-field judgments only in the case of line decisions.Likewise the on-field umpires were handicapped by ICC regulations that onlyallow umpires to call for the third umpire to verify whether the catchitself was taken cleanly, not whether it was a bump ball.During all three previous innings in the series his dismissal had sparkeddramatic collapses. In Galle the last five wickets fell for 25 runs in thefirst innings and 13 in the second. Yesterday the lower order the last fiveproduced just 24 runs. This time they cobbled together 64 and showed greaterresistance, but it still swung the match towards Sri Lanka.The West Indies team were left fuming. They have had the bad breaksin this Test, from the time Stuart was barred from bowling, and they feelthey suffered in the field too, when a number of decisions were turned down.Coach Roger Harper, speaking straight after his sides 131 defeat, said: “Naturally we are very, very disappointed. Not only in losing but also in the manner in which we thought the game was taken away from us.”He added: “The dismissal of Brian Lara was clearly the pivotal moment. The outcome could have been totally different. I have no explanation for it. All I can say is that all the Sri Lankans in the match contributed to it.”On balance, however, the Lara dismissal apart and a gloved catch offJayasuriya that was not given, the umpiring was not poor. There were somemarginal decisions and mistakes, but not an unusually high number and they didnot all fall in Sri Lanka’s favour. Ultimately this game was lost because ofwoeful batting and some wonderfully skillful bowling from Muralitharan, whoonce again finished with ten wickets in the game.Earlier in the morning, Sri Lanka appeared mindful of criticism that theyhad not been more positive yesterday evening. They came out this morning,after a long team chat prior to the start of play, all guns blazing.Sangakkara displayed the team’s newfound urgency early on, as he danced downthe wicket to a bemused Dillon and aimed a back-wrenching swipe.Boundaries were hard to come by over the soft buffalo-grassed outfield, butSangakkara, on 10 overnight, swivel-pulled and slashed a further 35 runs in30 balls before he pulled straight into the hands of Ramnarine atmid-wicket.In the first ten overs Sangakkara and Atapattu added 63 runs, increasing SriLanka’s 225-run overnight lead to 288. A declaration appeared imminent, butJayasuriya erred on the side of caution.Hooper quickly dispensed with Pedro Collins, whose four overs cost 31 runs,and asked leg-spinner Dinanath Ramnarine to bowl into the rough outside theright-handers pads. The slips disappeared and boundaries became heavilypatrolled. The tactic slowed the run rate, as Ramnarine picked four wicketsin the next ten overs as Sri Lanka added only 33 more runs.Jayawardene briefly glistened before he skied a simple catch. Russel Arnold,fighting for his place in the side, scooped a catch to cover in the nextover.All the while, Atapattu had been steadily accumulating runs in hishigh-elbowed and stylish way. For a while it looked like the declaration wasbeing delayed to allow him to complete his ninth Test hundred. But when hewas stumped having hot-footed down the wicket to Ramnarine, Vaas appearedfrom the dressing room.Jayasuriya was concerned about the “Lara factor” and wanted to make sure therun-getting equation was loaded in Sri Lanka’s favour. However, soon afterthe dismissal of Vaas he was finally persuaded to call the innings to aclose and let Muralitharan loose.

It’s a case of full moon stops play in Sri Lanka where a recent government decree has banned the playing of sports on Poya Day holidays (full moon days).The decree has forced the return of the once coveted "rest day" during Test matches which were abandoned with the international cricket calendar becoming ever more congested.The Sri Lanka cricket board has been forced to reschedule Zimbabwe’s Test programme after the current LG Abans triangular series to avoid play on the 30 December, the Poya Day.New schedule:21-23 December – Three-day practice match Zimbabwe vs. Sri Lanka `A’ at P. Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo27 December – 1 January – First Test Match Sri Lanka vs. Zimbabwe at Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo (Rest day on 30 December)4th-8th January – Second Test Match Sri Lanka vs. Zimbabwe at Asgiriya International Cricket Stadium in Kandy12th-16th January – Third Test Match Sri Lanka vs. Zimbabwe at Galle International Cricket Stadium17th January – Zimbabwe Departure

Nathan Astle’s prospective unavailability for the New Zealand team to return to Australia for next month’s tri-series with Australia and South Africa has thrown increased emphasis on domestic cricket games starting today.One round of State Championship games starts today and two rounds of the State Shield will be played before the touring side is announced on January 3.It was only last week that the naming of the side was delayed until then, but it proved a fortuitous move. Compounding the situation is the suspension of Dion Nash from all games until January 3. Before Astle’s news that would probably have been enough for the selectors to discount him, but now?January 3 is also the day Astle has a plaster cast removed from the hand on which he suffered a cracked bone when he was batting in the first Test against Bangladesh.Easily New Zealand’s best one-day batsman, Astle, if unavailable and the prospect is high, would leave a huge gap in the side with no obvious replacement.He has been such a commanding opening batsman that the selectors have spent the last two years trying to find him an opening partner. The question remains unresolved.Anyone able to provide consistent scoring in the three remaining games is likely to come into the picture.The obvious considerations have to be:Chris Nevin – the incumbent one-day opener after being selected in the non-touring team to Pakistan, but still to provide the selectors with the runs that would warrant his retention.Lou Vincent – showed in his debut Test in Perth that he has the class to succeed but has played his earlier ODIs in the middle-order.Mathew Sinclair – scored two centuries for New Zealand in Sri Lanka earlier in the year and looked to have resolved some batting issues, but has fallen into a scoring trough.A little more out of left field could be:Mark Richardson – has a love of a good battle, the less inhibiting field settings for ODIs and an attacking bent revealed in run chases during the recent Test series in Australia.Matt Horne – not a prolific performer in ODIs but offers experience and solidity at the top of the order and well capable of playing an anchor role.Right out of left field could be:Brendon McCullum – attack is McCullum’s second nature and he has already scored his maiden first-class century this summer and played some fine innings. If the World Cup is in the selectors’ minds, rather than the short term then McCullum, with runs under his belt in these three games, could be a suitable choice.Andrew Hore – the nearest thing in New Zealand cricket to a batsman in the Mark Greatbatch mould to take an attack apart. He is experienced enough to handle the pressure and could be an exciting sight on Australian pitches.Dion Nash – so technically correct, and in good batting touch with the hard competitive core so beloved of the selectors, as a short term fix he might enjoy the challenge of getting New Zealand off to a good start.There may be others who could also come into the frame: Aaron Barnes of Auckland, Richard Jones of Wellington or David Kelly of Central Districts.The chance is clearly there, who will respond?

After the blitz of Virender Sehwag on the second day of the Challenger Trophy, everything that followed was doomed to being termed ordinary. The clash between India A and India B certainly did not boast the same star studded cast and somewhat unsurprisingly did not serve up the same exciting fare. India B justified their name as such and failed to qualify for the final of this tournament, losing to India A by 59 runs in the final league encounter.On winning the toss and sticking India A in to bat at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, India B skipper Anil Kumble must have felt a tinge of disappointment as the opposition got off to a sedate yet very stable start. Sangram Singh, bowled off a no-ball and dropped once, went on to make 40 before the first wicket fell with 63 runs on the board. Connor Williams, the other opener looked happy just staying at the wicket and grafted, as is his wont. The left hander looked in no hurry at all and took more than his fair share of time to get his eye in.VVS Laxman, of whom a big score has been expected for a while, played a sizzling cameo, striking the ball cleanly and yet failed to make the most of a good batting wicket. After hitting four boundaries in the course of his 28 Laxman played down the wrong line to his opposite number Kumble and was clean bowled.With Rohan Gavaskar, who failed in the first game he played in this series, Williams continued to push the score on. In the 33rd over of the innings, Williams finally made a mistake, falling to the part time off-spin of Hrishikesh Kanitkar. Williams’ 73 (91 balls, 7 fours, 1 six) provided the India A team with a strong base to build on.And build they did in the form of Gavaskar and Yuvraj Singh. The two left-handers played briskly, hitting the ball over the infield with great regularity. Yuvraj Singh in particular was effective, getting good power behind his strokes. Both of them however fell before reaching their respective half centuries. Gavaskar made 45 while Yuvraj Singh fell 2 short of 50.Personal landmarks might have been missed, but the pair had played their parts admirably in the middle order. India A were able to post a healthy 289/7 in their allotted 50 overs.What made the India B chase specially fraught with danger was the fact that they had to make the required runs in 40 overs or less to take an extra bonus point and qualify for the final. In their anxiety to score at a fast pace the India B team lost opener Sridharan Sriram (2) in just the first over of the day when Ajit Agarkar had the left-hander caught behind. Dinesh Mongia, centurion in the last game, followed soon after, being needlessly run out. At 12/2 India B hard the worst possible start to their essay.Mohammad Kaif, who has impressed in this tournament played a spirited knock in the middle order but he must have known in the back of his mind that the game was over before he walked out to bat. Flicking and pulling with great comfort Kaif worked his way to 69 before he played one shot too many and became Sarandeep Singh’s first victim.Kaif certainly wasn’t Sarandeep’s last scalp. Perhaps spurred on by Harbhajan Singh’s lacklustre performance in the Challenger Trophy, Sarandeep tossed the ball up, gave it a good tweak and invited batsmen to go after him. In the circumstances they had no choice but to go for it and perish in the process.Kanitkar, a permanent fixture in all representative and selection matches, fell for 47 (63 balls, 3 fours). Vijay Bharadwaj, attempting to serve the selectors a reminder of his abilities showed good spirit, tonking 43 off just 28 balls but could not outwit Sarandeep Singh. Arjun Yadav (2) and Devendra Bundela (3) both rated as good prospects for the one-day game failed, completing Sarandeep Singh’s five-wicket bag. The young offie is now almost a certainty for the one-dayers against England, with a timely 5/57. What’s more, if his last over had not been thrashed for 13 by the lusty hitting of Ashish Nehra, his figures would have been far more respectable!Nehra provided some good comic relief, swatting the ball around for 23 at the end.By this stage, with the score on 191/7, India B were out of it. Ajit Agarkar (3/55) cleaned things up with some good straight fast bowling, putting an End to the India B innings on 230.India A, with this performance book themselves a spot in the final against India Seniors, to be played on Sunday.

What a week it has been for us here in Christchurch. after losing our first match to the Australians, we needed to beat both the New Zealanders and the English to qualify for a place in the semi-final of the tournament.Our midweek game against the Kiwis went very well and we managed to get a win against a team that perhaps seemed a little overconfident that they would progress to the next stage after beating England in their first match.Our final superleague match against England then suddenly became the most important match of the tournament for us as we had to beat them to advance to the semifinals. This was a nail biting affair that swung like a pendulum as both teams battled to get control of the game. England needed to win the match with a bonus point and hope that the Australians beat the New Zealanders if they were to advance to the semi-finals.They therefore had little choice but to chase our score ferociously from the start of their innings. this gave us a chance to force their batsmen to play high risk shots and allowed us to remove their top order batsmen at crucial stages of the game. Our victory came in the 41st over when Ryan Bailey (“Bails”) bowled their last batsmen.We had now qualified to play India in the first semifinal. This was to be the first match of the tournament to be televised live on the sky sports channel here in New Zealand. It was interesting to see our boys reaction to all the hype around this match and suddenly we realised again that we were playing in the world cup and had an opportunity to write the names of the squad in the history books.On the morning of the game, tensions were running high in our dressing room and it was no surprise to see a few of our team making more than one visit to the toilet before we had even started our warm-up. This soon settled and we set about our task to take on the Indian bowlers. The hype that had been created by the presence of the television cameras, did not fail to provide us with some anxious moments as we now had the use of modern technology to assist the umpires with stumping and run-out decisions.Despite all the excitement our boys excelled in this match and beat India by 112 runs. Davie Jacobs got the man of t he match and we were in the finals of the Under19 World Cup.Christchurch is a beautiful city on the south island of New Zealand. It is situated on the eastern coastline, and stretches inland. It is surrounded by open countryside that is extremely flat despite the existence of a very scenic cluster of hills just east of the city. This region is also well known for the quality of the grapes that are grown here and the locals claim that the white wine produced in these parts is as good as any in the world!Along with all the teams participating in the tournament we have been based at the Lincoln University campus which is also the home of the New Zealand cricket academy. This campus is about 20 to 25 minutes drive from Christchurch itself, so we have been a little isolated out here.However, the prospect of having some free time during this last week while we prepare for the final on Saturday, 9 February is a luxury we did not have earlier in the tournament as we were always practicing when we were not playing. I expect that the entire team is looking forward to this and no doubt some of the more interesting sites of this region will be explored by all.By the time I write my next postcard we will know if we are world champions or not, but for now we are savouring the victory that has taken us to the final.Until next time, Shane Jabaar (fizzer)

Promoted way up the order, Shoaib Malik treated the best crowd of the season here at the Sharjah Crickt Stadium to a dazzling unbeaten century, and Mohammad Sami claimed a hat-trick to land Pakistan an emphatic 51-run victory, their ninth on the trot, with more than 15 overs to spare.For the second successive match, the West Indies showed a hint of a fight, only to cave in timidly in the end. While Pakistan somehow kept finding the man for the moment whenever they were in a tight spot, the Windies had no such luck.Young Shoaib is a case in point; his remarkable innings, which has certainly advanced his credentials as an all-rounder, earned him the man-of-the-match award.A whirlwind knock from Chris Gayle threatened to break Pakistan’s sequence, but Shoaib Akhtar avenged the hiding he was given by Gayle (62, 45 deliveries, 6 fours, 3 sixes) by having him caught at point by Shahid Afridi in his comeback spell to bring Pakistan right back into the game.So often these days when a West Indies wicket falls, it is followed by a bunch. Gayle’s departure triggered a collapse as the remaining two Pakistani speedsters – Waqar Younis and Sami – claimed a wicket apiece in their second spell. But not before Wavell Hinds, who was lucky not to be given caught behind off Razzaq earlier, was castled by an Akhtar toecrusher.From 101 for one, the West Indies quickly slided to 133 for five, as Waqar got his counterpart Carl Hooper plumb in front, and Sami bowled the debutant Runako Morton through the gate.Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ryan Hinds batted sensibly in a stand of 45 for the sixth wicket, but then Razzaq accounted for both of them in the same over to kill hopes of a victory. The West Indies tail is not known for any displays of resilience, and Sami’s marvellous hat-trick hastened the end as Ridley Jacobs was lbw while Corey Collymore and Cameron Cuffy were clean bowled.When Gayle and Hinds were going great guns, raising 100 for one wicket, that of Darren Ganga, adjudged caught behind first ball of the innings, the West Indies seemed to be coasting. But once Pakistan got amongst the wickets, they kept chipping away until they had secured the victory.Earlier, as Pakistan won the toss and batted, there was experimentation galore. Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq were rested, and Inzamam-ul-Haq was sent up to open the innings in the hope that he would regain some semblance of form. But a palpably out-of-sorts Inzamam flashed at a widish Cameron Cuffy delivery, edging it to Gayle in first slip.Already dropped by Merv Dillon off his own bowling in the very first over, the bowler made amends when Afridi offered him a second chance. Seven for two, and out walked Shoaib Malik, who with Younis Khan tried to make a rescue effort. Cuffy, whose four overs out of the first five were maidens, and Dillon tightened things up, and Pakistan was slowed to a crawl.As the two tried to open up, Younis was plumb in front after hitting Cuffy for a four to long-on; Youhana was trapped in identical fashion by Corey Collmore, not making the most of a reprieve when Jacobs failed to hold on to an easy chance. 51 for four in the 17th over, and Pakistan seemed to be drifting towards disaster when Naved Latif joined Malik in the middle.With hard-hitting Latif (45, 70 deliveries, 5 fours and a 6 off Hooper over mid-wicket) taking charge, Malik decided to play second fiddle and by the time Latif departed, his lofted drive straight over Hooper’s head finding Cuffy a few yards inside the fence, Malik was well set.Having executed three lovely drives to the fence in the cover region, Malik notched his 50 off 90 balls, as Razzaq started where he had left the previous evening, twice clouting Collymore beyond mid-wicket boundary, once into the stands. Pakistan seemed to be on song as with overs fast running out Malik too went after the bowling with real gusto. He clubbed Ryan Hinds for two fours, at cover and square leg, to raise 50 of the partnership before Razzaq was dismissed, flashing at a wide Hinds delivery only to be splendidly caught by Gayle at point.There was no stopping Malik now; he smashed Hinds over extra cover to raise the team’s 200 and ease into the 90s, then flicked Dillon for four to long leg as wickets kept falling at the other end. Having reached his sparkling century, Malik took two boundaries off Dillon in the 49th over as Shoaib Akhtar and Sami fell with one over unused.On a good batting wicket, 232 was not the kind of imposing total Waqar would have felt comfortable with, but he must have been relieved with it after the collapse at the top of the order.

Pakistan stormed into the final of Asia U-15 cricket cup with a 27 runs victory over Nepal on Friday in the semifinal played in Dubai, according to a message received here.Nepal bowlers did well to skittle Pakistan out for a modest 117 in 36.3 overs but found the target too steep and were bowled out for 90in 37.1 overs.For Pakistan Adnan Raza Ali (25) and Man-of-the-Match Sardar Nawaz (25) batted well. Raj Shreshtha emerged as the most successful bowler for Nepal taking four wickets for 15 runs from his quota of eight overs.When Nepal batted they too found run making a difficult proposition. Only two of their batsmen Shreshtha and Irfan Siddiqui could reach doubles. Suleman Ali was pick of Pakistani attack claiming three wickets for 13 runs from 6.2 overs.ScoreboardPakistanFayyaz Ahmed c Sharad b Khadke 0Suleman Ali lbw b D.Shrestha 4Fazal Mohd c Ravi b D.Shrestha 11Adnan Raza c Sunil b R.Shrestha 25Salman Akbar b R. Shreshtha 13Raza Dar c Mahesh b R.Shreshtha 11Sardar Nawaz run out 25Owais Ahmed c Bantu b Irfan 1Mansoor Ahmed c Ravi b R.Shreshtha 0Nasir Ahmed c Mahesh b Bantu 12M.Jamshaid not out 4Extras (nb 2, wb 7,byes 2) 11TOTAL (all out in 36.3 overs) 117Fall of wkt: 1-7, 2-11, 3-25, 4-59, 5-64, 6-96, 7-101, 8-101,9-105, 10-117Bowling: Paras Khadke 8-1-20-1; Deepak Shrestha 6-1-22-2;Bantu Bataju 7.3-1-26-1; Susan Man Shrestha 1-0-10-0;Raj Shreshtha 8-0-15-4; Irfan Siddiqui 6-2-22-1NepalS.K.Jain lbw b Nasir 0Pawan Das run out 4S.Vesawkar c Owais b Nasir 3P.Khadka c Owais b Sardar Nawaz 8Mahesh Chhotri b Jamshaid 1R. Thapa lbw Sardar Nawaz 1Raj Shreshtha st Owais b Raza Dar 15Irfan Siddiqui st Owais b Suleman 22Bantu Bataju c Fayyaz b Suleman 3S.Shrestha b Suleman 8D.Shrestha not out 2Extras (nb 3, Wb9, lb 11) 23Total (all out in 37.1 overs) 90Fall of wkt: 1-1, 2-11, 3-13, 4-23, 5-25, 6-28, 7-67, 8-71, 9-76, 10-90Bowling: Nasir Ahmed 5-1-13-2; Sardar Nawaz 8-2-15-2;Mohammad Jamshaid 6-1-11-1; Mansoor Amjad 5-3-8-0;Raza Ali Dar 7-0-19-1; Suleman Ali 6.1-0- 13-3.