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Senior pacer Junaid Siddique took 5 wickets to header a disciplined bowling effort from the United Arab Emirates arsenic they restricted Canada to a below-par 150 for 7 successful their T20 World Cup lucifer present connected Friday.
Opting to bat, Canada were jolted aboriginal arsenic pacers Siddique (5/35) and Muhammad Jawadullah ripped done the apical bid wrong the archetypal 4 overs.
Siddique acceptable the code with a superb opening spell, fetching 2 wickets earlier claiming 3 scalps astatine the death.
He started by pitching 1 up astir disconnected to lure opener Dilprit Bajwa into an aerial stroke, lone for the skipper to mistime it and connection a elemental catch.
He past shifted to a fifth-stump line, angling the shot distant arsenic opener Yuvraj Samra attempted a pull, gifting a regularisation drawback to Alishan Sharafu astatine mid-on.
Jawadullah joined the party, striking with his archetypal delivery, dismissing the unsafe Nicholas Kirton, who edged behind, leaving Canada reeling with their apical 3 backmost successful the dugout wrong six overs.
Harsh Thaker steadied the innings with a 41-ball-50. He concisely wrested backmost momentum with a 4 and a six, guiding Canada's betterment alongside Navneet Dhaliwal (34).
He stitched unneurotic 2 captious partnerships -- a 58-run basal with Dhaliwal (34) and a 33-run relation with Shreyas Movva (21).
However, Siddique returned successful the 18th implicit to region Thaker.
In his adjacent implicit helium got escaped of Movva with a slower bouncer, earlier getting escaped of Saad Bin Zafar, halting Canada's precocious push.
