Cricket: Kuwait cruise to 102-run win – Gulf Digital News

Cricket: Kuwait cruise to 102-run win – Gulf Digital News

Medium-pacer Shahrukh Quddus took a hat-trick on debut and left-arm spinner Yasin Patel snapped up three wickets in four balls to help Kuwait consign Bahrain to a massive 102-run defeat in the fifth and final T20I last night at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground in Oman.

Kuwait’s fourth successive win after having lost the first game in a Super Over meant that they were able to add valuable points to their ICC world rankings status because of the 4-1 series result in their favour.

Bahrain, chasing 187 to win, were never in the hunt after they slumped to 12 for three in just the second over of their innings with Quddus accounting for opener Umar Toor, Shahbaz Badar and captain Haider Butt with his first three balls in T20I cricket.

That became 19 for five at the end of the fifth over when Patel clean-bowled David Mathias and Sikander Billah off the last two balls of his first over of the innings. He returned an over later to dismiss Mohammad Younis to leave Bahrain reeling further at 26 for six and, when all-rounder Sathaiya Veerapathiran was run out for nought in the next over, Bahrain were 27 for seven and staring at a