Canada warm-up with convincing win

Canada 285 for 7 wickets (Qaiser Ali 72, Ashif Mulla 66*, Chumney 45, Kamyuka 3-34) beat Uganda 176 for 7 by 109 runs

Canada earned a substantial 109-run win over Uganda in their final match before the World Cricket League Division 1, which starts on Monday.

Canada began slowly but Desmond Chumney helped increase the scoring rate against accurate bowling from Uganda's opening pair. The innings gained momentum with a sixth-wicket stand of 115 runs between Qaiser Ali and Ashif Mulla. Ali before Sunil Dhaniram's late cameo of 23 runs in three overs. Opening bowler Kenneth Kamyuka took 3 for 34 runs in 10 overs, but Junior Ruyange bowled well even though he conceded 16 wides and a no-ball.

Uganda's openers both fell to Umar Bhatti, who took 2 for 17. Salem Hamza and Junior Kewbhia moved the score to 69, but the innings began to founder and although Richard Okia showed defiance with consecutive sixes off Kevin Sandher, but the eighth-wicket pair settled into a pattern of playing for a respectable total, adding 57 in the last 16 overs. Don Maxwell bowled 10 overs for just 14 runs, with Sunil Dhaniram conceding just 12 from seven overs and taking a wicket.

Ashish Bagai captained Canada to this win as John Davison and George Codrington sat out the match. Bhatti returned after an ankle injury.