Osinde puts Canada in control
Right arm fast bowler, Henry Osinde appearing in only his second tournament for his new country put Canada in control of their match against the Cayman Islands with a sparkling performance of seven wickets for fifty three runs in 14.1 overs
Martin Vierra
02-Sep-2005
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Resuming with their overnight total at 5 for 1 Cayman Islands found the pace of Bhatti and Osinde too hostile for their likely. Wickets fell quickly as Osinde ripped through the batting order and at one stage the visitors were reduced to 41 for 5. To their credit the Caymanians fought back led by their skipper Ryan Bovell who scored 44 before being caught behind off Osinde. The lower order tried to support their skipper and did well to reach 159. But the day belongs to Henry Osinde who ended with figures of 14.1-2-53-7.
Canada's lead was 181 but they did not enforce the follow on and maybe because of this huge lead produced a rather lack luster effort in their second innings losing two early wickets for 22 runs. Ashish Bagai playing with a very painful finger and Qaiser Ali making his first appearance for Canada in this series, started the recovery with a fine partnership of 72 before Bagai was caught by J.Linton off the bowling of Marc Chin for 42. Ali then took things in his own hands and despite two more quick wickets he managed to steer the Canadians to 151 in 38.5 overs at which time the skipper declared their innings closed giving Cayman Islands a target of 332 runs for victory. Ali innings of 67 not out lasted 173 minutes and included five boundaries.
Mr. Ali was not finished yet as the skipper brought him and Kevin Sandher ( both spinners) into the attack later in the evening. Steve Gordon and Ainsley Hall had carefully brought the Cayman Island total to 38 without loss when Ali bowled Gordon to end the second day's play with Cayman still needing 295 runs for victory with nine wickets in hand.
Don Maxwell who scored 114 for Canada in their first innings is still suffering from back spasms and did not appear for Canada today.
Tomorrow is the final day in this match which will decide the second place team as Bermuda has already captured the Americas Region title and will represent the region in Namibia in October.