{"id":13076,"date":"2019-10-27T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13076"},"modified":"2019-10-27T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T13:46:03","slug":"icc-mens-t20-world-cup-qualifier-canada-must-beat-uae-to-reach-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13076","title":{"rendered":"ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup Qualifier: Canada must beat UAE to Reach Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group B (Game in Progress): Jersey 141\/7 (20 overs) v Oman Group B (Next and Closing Group Match): Canada v UAE<br \/>\nCanada (Won 3, Lost 2, NRR 0.433) must beat hosts UAE (Won 3, Lost 2, NRR 0.656) in the last Group B match of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup Qualifier today (27 October 2019) to qualify for the playoffs. Four wins would put Canada equal with Ireland (W 4, L 2, NRR 1.591.<br \/>\nOne game is in progress and will end before Canada and the UAE take the field for a night game in Abu Dhabi: Oman (currently: Won 4, Lost 1, NRR 1.388) won the toss and decided Jersey would bat first. A win would move Oman to 5 wins and seal both first place in Group B and a place in next year\u2019s T20 World Cup in Australia. Ireland would drop into second place and be a repeat of the recent Oman Pentangular (5 countries) where Oman won all four matches including the head-to-head with Ireland who won their other three games.<br \/>\nJersey (currently Won 2, Lost 3, NRR -0.039) ended on a useful 141\/7 after 20 overs against Oman when this report was first filed. Jersey ended above \u201csteady progress\u201d and is in with a chance of winning by doing the basics well.<br \/>\nShort of some miracle, Jersey will not be able to emulate Australia\u2019s feat today in Adelaide of winning a T20I by big enough margin on runs to significantly improve NRR, but with steady cricket Jersey may be able to bag a surprise win against Oman. Beyond this T20 Qualifier, Australia scored 233\/2 from 20 overs, lead by David \u201cGT20&#8243; Warner\u2019s 100*, then held Sri Lanka to just 99\/9 from 29 overs, sealing victory by 134 runs. So if Jersey beat Oman, Jersey\u2019s NRR is unlikely to challenge for a top four position in the Group.<br \/>\nHong Kong fired quick runs to beat Nigeria (Won 0, Lost 6, NRR -4.673) early on Sunday (27 October 2017). Hong Kong moved ahead of Canada in the Group B standings due to a better Net Run Rate (NRR). It was Hong Kong\u2019s third consecutive win after a losing start.<br \/>\nNigeria\u2019s opening batsmen began well, taking the score to 30 for no wicket but two wickets fell at that score. Nigeria battled away to reach 81 for 8 wickets from the available 20 overs. Hong Kong opener Niazkat Khan clipped a quick 21 runs from 9 balls and Kinchit Shah clipped 25 from 10 balls. Two others chipped in with runs in double figures as Hong Kong crossed the winning line with 82\/5 after 7.1 overs.<br \/>\nThis rush to victory win carried Hong Kong to 3 wins and 3 losses from 6 matches and , significantly from a Canadian perspective, raised the HK NRR to . So Hong Kong\u2019s NRR is now better than Canada\u2019s going into the last group game of the round-robin phase of the T20 World Cup Qualifier.<br \/>\nSo Canada Cricket Online send our best wishes to the Canadian team in Abu Dhabi for the win over the UAE that would carry Canada to 4 wins and a place in this ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup Qualifier playoffs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/match\/18215#teams\">Canada-UAE scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group B (Game in Progress): Jersey 141\/7 (20 overs) v Oman Group B (Next and Closing Group Match): Canada v UAE Canada (Won 3, Lost 2, NRR 0.433) must beat hosts UAE (Won 3, Lost 2, NRR 0.656) in the last Group B match of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup Qualifier today (27 October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13077,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076\/revisions\/13077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}