The 4th qualifying game to be held at Hyderabad is between Auckland and Somerset who both have their eyes on progessing to the next round of this tournament. Auckland choked in their 1st match and hope to recover and smash Somerset to keep their dream alive in winning this tournament. Somerset are without a few big names so will have to find some performances from somewhere in their squad.
How the Teams Stand
Auckland will have to find some spark from somewhere as it wouldn’t be a suprise if their confidence was dramatically lost after the lost to Kolkata. Auckland were at 1/60 after 9 overs and having to chase only 122 for the win they failed to reach the total when they should have easily achieved it. They now have to bounce back in this match to have any chance to progress to the next round in this tournament. The bowling will be a worry after they only managed the 1st wicket at the 10th over when they have quality options like Martin, Mills and Andre Adams. Auckland will be very dissapointed with the batting performance, Guptill was run out on a diamond duck so Auckland will be hoping for an impressive performance by him. Colin Munro managed 19 runs from 29 balls and he let his team down as he was too slow in his innings and while Lou Vincent’s runs mainly came from boundaries he had a lot of dot balls.
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