da pinnacle： Left-armer Asim Butt bowled with fire in warm and humid conditions onThursday to give Scotland a winning start in the ICC Trophy
Latafat Ali Siddiqui30-Jun-2001Left-armer Asim Butt bowled with fire in warm and humid conditions onThursday to give Scotland a winning start in the ICC Trophy.Butt snapped up five wickets for 11 runs to help the pretournamentfavourite score a six-wicket win over Fiji who were bowled out for 41in 20.4 overs at King City cricket ground.In other matches on the opening day, Bermuda defeated Denmark in alast-ball thriller, Canada routed Singapore by nine wickets andMalaysia scored a massive 166-run victory over a hapless France.In the most exciting match of the day at the Ross Lord cricket ground,Bermuda, batting first, collected 200 for nine with Charlie Marshallscoring 67. In his 78-minute belligerent knock, he cracked four sixesand eight boundaries.The Danes were on course for victory when Morten Andersen (55) andThomas Hansen (32) were together at the crease. But once theydeparted, Denmark buckled under pressure to finish at 198 for nine inallotted 50 overs.In a Group B match, Shankar Retinam scored the first century of thetournament powering Malaysia to an emphatic 166-run victory overFrance. The opener slammed 118 off 112 balls with the aid of 11boundaries as Malaysia raced to 321 at the Ajax Stadium, 30 kilometerseast of Toronto.In reply, France crashed to 155 all out.