Kuwait vs Maldives, at Singapore, Jun 10 2014 - Match Result

Kuwait in trouble up to lunch thanks to some excellent Maldives bowling and fielding, for whom tall pacer Hassan Ibrahim was the pick, made only 153. And they're a team of batsmen. However Kuwait's bowlers won the game for them, the two Alis Faizan and Mudassar, left-arm and right-arm pace ripped through the Maldives top order. The Kuwait spinners did a good job for their team too and though Maldives' tail showed resistance once Rishwan had gone for a doughty 39, there was only one way the game was going. Kuwait's win against hitherto unbeaten Maldives throws the tournament wide open and we're likely to go in to the last two days of matches with every game and every run counting, for an ultimate NRR equation. Thanks for being us today for this ACC Elite League match, we're all back again tomorrow from Singapore. Man of the Match for his valuable tail-end runs and his fiery left-arm 3-31, is Kuwait's Faizan Ali.

Kuwait's fans, trust me, still not relaxed, their team is known for the most extraordinary occurences

Maldives consolation, and we may be clutching at straws, is that they are well ahead of the required run-rate. Kuwait's post-lunch session all the way otherwise so far