Archibald, George test for Ghana’s top sprinter Amoah
Ghana’s top sprinter, Joseph Amoah will be in the blocks at the Aliann Pompey Invitational that is set for Saturday at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.
Amoah is having an outstanding 2019 season with a season’s best time at the 100 metres with a time of 10.01s that he ran on June 5th in Texas.
In addition, June 5th also produced another season’s best for Amoah, this time at the 200m with a time of 20.08s.
Guyana’s national records in the men’s 100 is 10.12s (Adam Harris) and for the 200m is 20.14s (James Wren-Gilkes).
With just about four days to go, some of the Guyanese stars will have some time to get in better form to face the Ghanaian speedster which should make for an interesting 100m with Emanuel Archibald and Winston George recently running 10.26s and 10.36s respectively at the National Senior Championships on Saturday. BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza does not share his India counterpart Virat Kohli’s concerns about the short boundary on one side at Edgbaston where the neighbours will clash in a World Cup group match today.
Kohli was critical of the ground dimensions after England ended India’s unbeaten campaign on a pitch which had a 59-metre boundary on one side.
“If batsmen are able to reverse sweep you for six on a 59-metre boundary there is not much you can do as a spinner,” Kohli said, defending his slow bowlers after they lost by 31 runs.
The same pitch will be used for a match which Bangladesh must win to keep their semi-final hopes alive, while a victory for Kohli’s men will secure them a place in the last four.
“It will be the same wicket and same ground for both teams,” Mashrafe told reporters on Monday.
“We haven’t played any match on it. Yes, one side is pretty smaller, so batsmen will normally target that area, but I think both teams will get the same benefit here.”
India managed just one six in their innings, compared to England’s 13, which included Ben Stokes’ reverse-sweep off Yuzvendra Chahal that cleared the shorter boundary.
India’s wrist-spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Chahal bled 160 runs for just one wicket in their combined 20 overs, partly handicapped after the Indian quicks failed to get early breakthroughs.
Mashrafe said his batsmen would be cautious against the Indian spinners despite the short boundary temptation.
“I think their spinners have done a good job if you look at their stats in the last two-three years. We can’t expect to do what England did and get success.