Eddie Norfolk<\/p>\n
The ICC Americas Women\u2019s T20 Championship concludes today (Saturday, April 28) with\u00a0unbeaten Canada (4\/0) and the USA (4\/0) going head-to-head to decide the tournament in George Town, Grand Cayman. Canada beat Argentina by 11 runs on Friday in a game reduced to five overs per side at the Smith Road ground. Canada made 35 for four wickets (including six extras, or sundries as some call them) then held Argentina to 24 for six wickets. The USA (152 for 3wkts, 20 ov) beat Bermuda (66 for 7 wkts ,20 ov) by 86 runs.
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\nDurriya Shabbir made 13 not out and Mahwish Khan 11 in Canada\u2019s total of 35 for four wickets
\n(which includes 4 wides, a no-ball and a legbye – not just the 29 runs off the bat). Kamna
\nMirchandani took the player-of-the game award in taking two wickets for 6 runs in her one over.
\nNow, according to the scorecard, Canada won by 11 runs, which would mean Argentina made 24
\nfor six wickets, which is what is shown as the total on the scorecard.
\nBut, at present, on the electronic scorecard, the 22 runs off the bat plus just one bye add up to 23,
\nnot 24. This may be a transcription error, but one might say the bowling line of the Canadian
\nwomen must have been pretty good. The wicket was wet, as well as the outfield, hence the short
\nnumber of overs. It takes a lot of people behind the scenes to put all the pieces together, some of
\nwhom do not get much sleep during these tournaments. So perhaps there is a missing extra to be
\nadded to the Argentina score to make it 24 for six and an 11 run win. Or perhaps it was a win by
\na dozen runs on Friday.
\nFriday produced the first win for the Cayman Islands women who beat Brazil (57 for 8 wkts, 13
\novers) by seven wickets. Cayman Islands scored 58 runs for the loss of three wickets in 9.4
\novers.
\nThis was also the first win by a Cayman Islands national team in an ICC event in the Cayman
\nIslands. A wet outfield in the Jimmy Powell Oval was the cause of the reduction in overs in the
\nCayman\u2019s game. The USA-Bermuda game then followed.
\nCanada began this tournament with a 126 run win against Brazil, followed up with a 77 runs win
\nagainst Bermuda and then beat the hosts, Cayman Islands by 106 runs. Canada and the USA
\nmeet in the last scheduled game of the tournament at the Jimmy Powell Oval. Argentina meet
\nBrazil (Smith Road) and Cayman Islands face Bermuda (Jimmy Powell) earlier in the day.
\nThanks to CITN Cayman 27, Cricket Argentina, Bermuda Island Stats and, ICC Americas and
\nSports for news of Friday\u2019s matches, and to ICC Americas and Cricket Archive for details of the
\nearlier games. Let\u2019s hope for a good game between Canada and the USA to end the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eddie Norfolk The ICC Americas Women\u2019s T20 Championship concludes today (Saturday, April 28) with\u00a0unbeaten Canada (4\/0) and the USA (4\/0) going head-to-head to decide the tournament in George Town, Grand Cayman. Canada beat Argentina by 11 runs on Friday in a game reduced to five overs per side at the Smith Road ground. Canada made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957"}],"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=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}