NEW DELHI, March 7 (PTI): Canada won only their second World Cup match in four tournaments, a low-profile, low-scoring scrap against Kenya, to walk away with bragging rights at Feroz Shah Kotla.
Jimmy Hansra and Ashish Bagai put on 132 - Canada�s fifth biggest one-day partnership - to steer the chase on a slow subcontinent surface, the fourth successive match in which a tough track was served up in a World Cup widely expected to be a runfest. Quick bowler Henry Osinde was Canada�s hero in the afternoon, as he ripped through the top order to leave Kenya gasping at 57 for 5 after 15 overs. Kenya, though, just about achieved their captain Jimmy Kamande�s goal of playing out 50 overs through gutsy half-centuries from Tanmay Mishra and Thomas Odoyo which was the bedrock of their best batting performance of the tournament.
Canada bowled out Kenya for a modest 198. For Kenya, young Tanmay (51) and veteran Thomas Odoyo (51) struck half centuries. Osinde had career-best figures of four for 26 to show for his efforts.
Scorecard
Kenya
Morris Ouma c Baidwan b Osinde 0
Seren Waters b Osinde 2
Collins Obuya b Baidwan 31
David Obuya c Bagai b Osinde 2
Steve Tikolo lbw b Cheema 12
Tamnay c Surkari b Davison 51
Jimmy Kamande c Bagai b Balaji 22
Thomas Odoyo b Baidwan 51
Nehemiah Odhiambo b Osinde 4
Elijah Otieno c Hansra b Cheema 8
James Ngoche not out 1
Extras: (LB-4, W-10) 14
Total: (All out in 50 overs) 198
Fall of wickets: 1/0 2/7 3/21 4/41 5/57 6/109 7/166 8/171 9/193.
Bowling: Henry Osinde 10-2-26-4, Harvir Baidwan 10-1-41-2, Parth Desai 3-0-20-0, Rizwan Cheema 9-1-30-2, Jimmy Hansra 3-0-15-0, Balaji Rao 10-0-36-1, John Davison 5-0-26-1.
Canada
R Gunasekera st Ouma b Ngoche 18
Rizwan Cheema b Otieno 17
ZE Surkari run out (Kamande) 10
A Bagai not out 64
AS Hansra c Ngoche b Odhiambo 70
TG Gordon b Odhiambo 3
JM Davison not out 4.
Extras (b 1, w 11, nb 1) 13
Total (5 wickets; 45.3 overs) 199
Bowling: TM Odoyo 5-1-18-0, E Otieno 8.3-0-45-1, NN Odhiambo 10-0-45-2, JO Ngoche 10-2-26-1, JK Kamande 5-0-25-0, CO Obuya 2-0-15-0, SO Tikolo 5-1-24-0.
