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- Updated: May 23, 2016
Oman coach Duleep Mendis praised Munis Ansari after the fast bowler took a career-best 5 for 27 in a 58-run victory over Jersey at WCL Division Five on Monday, calling him a ‘unique’ player for his game-changing ability.
“We are fortunate to have a person like Munis Ansari,” Mendis told ESPNcricinfo after Oman’s win at St Saviour. “This is not the first time that he came and got the breakthrough for us. Even in the qualifiers for the World Cup, he got the breakthrough for us in so many matches and we have a lot of faith in him. He’s a unique bowler.
“First, I think he’s unique because of that square-arm action and then because of the speed that he has and the control that he has. More than anything he can control and he can bowl the yorker anytime that he wants.”
After taking two wickets in his first five-over spell, Ansari returned for a second five-over spell and sparked a drastic collapse, with three more wickets, sending Jersey from 143 for 5 to 147 all out. Four of Ansari’s five wickets were clean bowled, all of them via yorkers, with the slingy pacer on a hat-trick at one point in his second spell and Mendis said his ability to routinely target the base of the stumps in the latter stages of an innings made him a consistent threat.
“He’s been practicing quite a lot,” Mendis said. “He had a chat with Lasith Malinga when he met him in the World Cup and he’s improving every day. Now it has come …
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