Cricket: Vik and Bell lift A team.
FULL one-day international - Note: Most of the information here pertains to men's cricket. ODI matches are also played in women's cricket.
One-Day International (ODI) is a form of cricket, which is played over 50 overs per side between two national cricket teams. batsmen Vikram Solanki Vikram Singh Solanki (born 1 April, 1976 in India) is an English cricketer, who plays county cricket for Worcestershire, of whom he is the captain. In 2007 he became the 24th Worcestershire batsman to pass 10,000 career runs for the county. and Ian Bell Ian Bell can refer to: - Ian Bell (programmer), computer programmer and co-writer of the game Elite
- Ian Bell (cricketer), English cricketer.
- Ian Bell (jazz drummer), Jazz drummer.
each
hit half-centuries yesterday in England A's winning start to their
tour of UAE and Sri Lanka.
New Worcestershire skipper Solanki (96) and Warwickshire's
Bell (54) were the chief contributors to the tourists' 50-over
total of 228 for seven, which was to prove 42 runs too many for UAE in
Sharjah.
England lost Matthew Prior without a run on the board, but Bell and
Solanki then shared a 138-run second-wicket stand.
Solanki hit five sixes before falling to Khuram Khan who also
accounted for Bell.
UAE's reply was never able to muster the required momentum -
despite handy innings from Ashgar Ali and Khuram - and the
tourists' unlikely bowling hero was Middlesex batsman Owais Shah,
who took four wickets with his part-time off-breaks
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