Malaysia sealed a series victory against Singapore today
with a 5 wicket win in a rain curtailed game.
It was cut and thrust throughout the series.
The first game was won by Singapore, even though the
Malaysian bowlers looked the strongest – especially Pavandeep Singh’s figures
of 3-0-13-3. These would go on to be the tournament’s best returns for a bowler.
Anwar Rahman only got the solitary wicket in the first fixture but would get
2-16 and 3-15 in the second and third matches to finish top of the wicket takers.
This theme of the losing team providing the most
eye-catching performance continued into game 2 where Janak Prakash got the
joint highest run total of the series as Singapore failed to chase down
Malaysia’s highest total of the series – 177. His 56 was scored off 31 balls –
8 fewer than Syed Aziz managed in the first innings. Prakash ended the tournament
as the highest overall run scorer with 99.
Singapore now turn their attention to a 4 match series versus
Papua New Guinea whilst Malaysia set out on a quadrangular series alongside
Bhutan, The Maldives and Thailand. All of these matches start on Saturday.
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