UPL: Villa, Ndejje in delicate affairKampala. Normally, Uganda’s most successful side - SC Villa - should be fending off other title challengers with four matches to go, or simply coasting to the gong. But we are talking some 15 years ago, when the record 16-time champions won their seventh straight league title, which was incidentally their last. Today, with four matches to wrap the 2018/19 StarTimes Uganda Premier League (SUPL) season, SC Villa host Ndejje closest to the drop than the top half of the table.
Administrative changes, two coaches in one campaign and an exodus of playing staff at the start of the season; this was only going to be a time to try rediscover the club’s soul. SC Villa come into into this match at Namboole sitting just one place and three points above relegation and Ndejje. Victory for Villa coach Douglas Bamweyana’s side would stretch the gap between them and Ndejje to six at 30, while the reverse would see the duo go level and further complicate survival chances.
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1 overs. After the flurry of wickets, Dutta and Pathirana were forced on the defensive and the next five overs yielded only 8 runs. Dutta broke the deadlock with a six but then only three runs came from the next 27 deliveries. Pathirana had made 4 from 33 balls before he broke the shackles with another six, but the 5th wicket fell in the 29th over when Dutta(14) was caught – 104/5, and their 30 run partnership had taken 13. 1 overs. This brought in Rizwan Cheema who, as usual, went on the attack. He was dropped at long on when he’d made just three but then took 16 from Ssenyondo’s 8th over- he had bowled his previous 7 for just 20.
Canada now face Oman (who beat USA in their opening match) tomorrow. Nitish Kumar and Bhavindhu Adhihetty opened the batting for Canada, with the rest of the team being Dhaliwal, Pathirana, Hansra, Rizwan Cheema, Dutta, Hamza Tariq, Saad Bin Zafar, Dhindsa, and Pervez. They got off to a fast start, putting on 32 before Adhihetty was leg before for 12 in the 5th over. Kumar, now batting with Dhaliwal, brought up the half-century in the 10th over with his second six.
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Cricket Cranes could hardly believe what had hit them Dhaliwal struck a couple of boundaries but was struggling to score against the spinners, and was caught off slow left armer Ssenondo for 15 from 31 balls. Kumar had made 43 at a run a ball but was brilliantly run out by Charles Waiswa (ICC video) two balls later, and Jimmy Hansra was leg before first ball. Canada had been in a good position at 74/1 but lost three wickets in 4 balls- 74/4 after 15.
Sport | ChimpReportsCanada’s tournament got off to an excellent start with a 66 run win over hosts Uganda. Canada batted after winning the toss, and the match was reduced to 42 overs/ side due to rain preventing a prompt start. After a good opening, Canada’s innings became becalmed after they lost three wickets in four balls. They were rescued by a brilliant innings of 91 in 44 balls by Rizwan Cheema (the ICC have posted some brief highlights on Facebook), allowing them to post a respectable total of 234/8. A fine opening spell from Cecil Pervez put them in a strong position, and the rest of the bowlers gave little away as Uganda were bowled out for 168. Pervez finished with 4 wickets for 44.
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“We hope we can eliminate the individual errors affecting our results, ” Bamweyana, whose side drew 1-1 at Express last week, told Daily Monitor. “We just need to get the results rolling - which we’ve proven that we can do - on a good day - free of individual errors. “We have adopted a slightly different strategy to support our players in different phases of play to eliminate exposing individuals and work more as a team to secure a positive result.
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