Following the Under 19s loss earlier in the day, the senior team followed suit, going down by 17 runs in a rain shortened match.
By the time the morning’s rain had stopped the ODI had turned into a 20-20. Canada bowled out Afghanistan for 150, but despite good innings from Patel and Cheema their batting effort fell short.

Canada made a good start with a wicket off the third ball, a catch for Rustam Bhatti, his first ODI dismissal. Karim Sadiq hit a flurry of boundaries and Baidwan compensated for dropping Shazad by having him caught an over later. He took a second wicket when he bowled Mangal but Afghanistan were scoring at a good pace, registering 82/4 at the half-way mark. The dangerous Mohammad Nabi was still in however and launched some big hits – four clearing the ropes. One big hitter accounted for the other when Nabi was caught on the fence off Cheema’s bowling for 47 off 33 balls. Khurram Chohan took two more wickets in his next over, the second a sharp catch by Bhatti standing up to the stumps. Cheema and Baidwan joined Chohan on three wickets apiece as Afghanistan were bowled out for 150 from 18.3 overs.
Patel got Canada off to a rousing start, taking four boundaries off the 4th over. Gunasekera was bowled with the score on 38, then both Hansra and Patel hit long-hops to fielders. Patel made 45 out of 67/3. Cheema hit two sixes and three fours in his 36, but his wicket was the first of 5 in 14 balls as Canads slumped to 128/9. 22 runs off the last over proved too much and so, yet again, Canada lost to the Afghans.
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