Akeal Hosein mixed his swinging arm balls well•Jun 08, 2024•ICC/Getty Images
Hosein wrecks Uganda’s top order
It was a spell of dreams. From the outset, it was clear that when Hosein chose to put revs into the ball, he would get good turn the first ball – a left-arm spinner’s stock ball – ragging past Roger Mukasa’s outside edge.
But it was Hosein’s mastery of drift/swing and his impeccable control that gave him the most venom in this game.
The next ball to Mukasa was a seam-up ball that curved in and struck the sweeping batter in front of middle and off.
Next over, the ball that struck Alpesh Ramjani in front of middle had also moved in the air, late.
Riazat Ali Shah, perhaps Uganda’s best batter, was beaten even more emphatically by the swinging seam-up ball, watching it crash into middle stump.
Then in his last over – the seventh of the innings – Hosein dismissed Dinesh Nakrani and Kenneth Waiswa, the first bowled and the second another lbw, again using movement in the air before pitching.
He left Uganda flailing at 23 for 7, all their batting resources spent, and with little hope of even surpassing the 58 they had made against Afghanistan last week – their previous lowest score. (ESPNcricinfo)
Akeal Hosein mixed his swinging arm balls well•Jun 08, 2024•ICC/Getty Images
