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Portugal - 95/5, beat Spain - 90 all out, by 5 runs.
Prince Dhiman 35 (21) | Adam Alger 20 (10) || Rana Sarwar - 2/13 | Md Siraj Nipo - 2/16
Rana Sarwar 35 (16) | Prince Dhiman - 2/21
What a humdinger of a contest this was! The match went right down to the wire and a few inches decided the winner of the contest off the last ball! Francoise Stoman to Adam Alger, the batter went for the pull and a pressure catch by Anthony Chambers just in front of the deep mid-wicket rope, with fingers pointing up, sealed the deal! Wow! What a contest this was and what a huge win for Portugal!
The best thing about this innings was the never-say-die attitude of Spain with the bat, always looking to attack and the relentless sustenance of pressure with the ball from Portugal! Eventually, some important catches from the Portuguese and some slightly iffy decisions from the batting side of things for Spain, ended up reflecting in the result. But the start provided by Junaid Khan with the ball and then the bowling of Rana Sarwar in the middle, did the trick for Conrad Greenshields' side.
Credit has to be given to Adam Alger for batting so well in the last over to almost hand his team a victory, but Francoise Stoman's comeback balls after getting hit for back-to-back sixes, was remarkable.
So we come to the end of perhaps the best match of the ECC so far in this edition at the Cartama Oval. This is the pair of Soorya and Bidipto, saying good bye, keep following Sportskeeda! There is more T10 action to come from this tournament tonight itself!
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90/10score
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6
6
0
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runs
Adam Alger*
20(10)
Atif Muhammad
1(2)
Francoise Stoman
1/22
9.6 Francoise Stoman to Adam Alger, SWUNG...AND TAKEN! HEARTBREAK FOR ALGER AND SPAIN! It's the absolute gift that Alger was after as Stoman dishes out a juicy full toss at the stumps. He heaves as hard as he can aiming for the mid-wicket fence but doesn't get as much elevation as he would have liked and picks out the boundary rider who holds his nerve and pouches it with reverse-cupped palms. Alger is down on his haunches as he can't believe what's happened while it's ecstasy amongst the Portuguese. Oh what a contest we've witnessed! Portugal prevail by 5 runs!
Adam Alger c Anthony Chambers b Francoise Stoman 20 (10b, 0x4, 3x6)
Six runs to get off one ball!
9.5 Francoise Stoman to Adam Alger, BRILLIANT DELIVERY! Follows the batter with a dipping yorker on leg stump as Alger moves aside and swings with gay abandon as he should. Just sneaks through though to beat the stumps en route to the keeper.
Six runs to get off two balls.
9.4 Francoise Stoman to Adam Alger, slanting into leg stump on a length, Alger hangs deep and whips it to deep square leg. They don't run though and rightly so. It's Alger or Portugal here!
Six runs to get off three balls!
9.3 Francoise Stoman to Adam Alger, SIX MORE! ALGER IS DOING IT! Stoman overcompensates and dishes one into the arc around off stump. Alger hangs deep and gets underneath this one to smear it up and over extra cover with all might. Just one hit away now!
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