{"id":5265,"date":"2017-05-02T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T09:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2017-05-03T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:07:10","slug":"%e6%9c%aa%e3%81%a0%e9%81%a0%e3%81%84%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%81%ae%e5%88%9d%e5%8b%9d%e5%88%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/%e6%9c%aa%e3%81%a0%e9%81%a0%e3%81%84%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%81%ae%e5%88%9d%e5%8b%9d%e5%88%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan suffer heavy defeat to Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samoa dominated Japan in the fourth match of the ICC World T20 East Asia-Pacific Qualifier winning by 7 wickets<\/a> at the Sano International Cricket Ground.<\/p>\n

Japan could only make 49-6 from their twenty overs. The score was well below par and Samoa chased it down inside ten overs.<\/p>\n

It was a familiar story for Japan, who have struggled with the bat all tournament and have now lost all four of their matches.<\/p>\n

The writing was on the wall early on as Japan were 9-2 from 9 overs and unable to deal with player of the match Lagi Telea (1-8) and Feala Vaelua (0-4) providing the early pressure with the new ball<\/p>\n

Captain Regina Lilli’l (1-7) and Maria Tato (2-11) then continued to apply pressure. After such a slow start, it would have been easy to collapse but it was credit to the middle order to get the team up to a score of 49.<\/p>\n

However, that total was never going to be enough and Samoa began to pick the total off with ease.<\/p>\n

Even when a Miho Kanno (1-7) in swinger took Via Andrew\u2019s (7) off stump, there was never any danger of a Japan fightback.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Shizuka Miyaji\u2019s bowling (2-10) was again one of the few positives to take from the performance.<\/p>\n

Miyaji picked up two wickets in two balls, first Lilli\u2019l was stumped by Eri Yamaguchi, before she trapped Lelia Bourne LBW.<\/p>\n

However, her wickets were nothing more than a consolation, with Samoa completing the victory two balls later.<\/p>\n

After the defeat, Coach Katrina Keenan said: \u201cThe performance was very disappointing. That is not what we have been working on as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was Samoa’s second victory in two days after they defeated Vanuatu by 53 runs<\/a> in yesterday’s rearranged fixture and maintaining their unbeaten status in the process.<\/p>\n

In the other match on day five Papua New Guinea beat Vanuatu by 5 wickets.<\/a> Vanuatu batted first, setting a score of 81-8. Papua New Guinea chased that down in 15 overs.<\/p>\n

Japan face Papua New Guinea from 9.30am tomorrow in the penultimate round of fixtures, with Samoa playing Vanuatu in the afternoon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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