The Americas squad were outclassed by hosts Trinidad and Tobago today in Port of Spain, going down to a 9 wicket defeat. <\/p>\n
The Americas won the toss and chose to bat. Nitish Kumar took over the captaincy from Gunasekera who wasrested. Another poor batting effort saw them bowled out for a meagre 81 from 26 overs. The only bright spot was Canadian Srimantha Wijeratne who again top-scored, this time with 30. The Americas squad were outclassed by hosts Trinidad and Tobago today in Port of Spain, going down to a 9 wicket defeat. The Americas won the toss and chose to bat. Nitish Kumar took over the captaincy from Gunasekera who wasrested. Another poor batting effort saw them bowled out for a meagre 81 from 26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631"}],"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=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8644,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions\/8644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Americas struggled from the outset, and after making just 4 runs from the first four overs lost their first wicket in the fifth. This brought in in Nitish Kumar who contributed just 2 before giving square leg an easy catch. Wijeyeratne had made 30 out of 49 runs when he was somewhat unluckily given leg-before. Only he and Allen (22) reached double figures on a slow pitch with low bounce.
\nThe match reached a rapid conclusion as T+T raced to a 9 wicket win in the 13th over.
\nCricInfo scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"