Akeal Hosein stars as West Indies dismantle Uganda

The West Indies secured their second win of the T20 World Cup campaign as they dismantled Uganda by 134 runs in Guyana on Sunday, June 9. Akeal Hosein was the star of the show with the ball as he rattled the Ugana batting order with his bowling with figures of 5 for 11 in his 4 overs. West Indies had posted 173 runs in their 20 overs after winning the toss and opting to bat first.

Uganda would end up being bundled out for 39, the joint-lowest total in the history of T20 World Cups. This was worse than the 58 they scored against Afghanistan in their first match of the campaign.

Johnson Charles and Brandon King had started the innings cautiously as the Uganda bowlers weren't giving away anything to the openers. They would slowly start to cut loose, but King's stay was a short one as he departed for just 13 runs. Charles and Nicholas Pooran would then take the attack to the Uganda bowlers as they would look to accelerate the scoring rate. Pooran got off with a couple of sixes but the Uganda bowlers continued to keep things in check

Skipper Brian Masaba would dismiss Pooran to once again stem the run flow as Charles was struggling to get connection. The opener ended up scoring 44 runs as the others failed to make an impact until Andre Russell came in. Russell was able to get 4 boundaries in the final over to power his side over the 170-run mark.

The Uganda chase never really got off the blocks as Hosein struck with the second ball of the innings to dismiss to Roger Mukasa and from there, it was just a procession of wickets in Guyana. Romario Shepherd got the wicket of Simon Ssesazi in the second over as Uganda were in all sorts of trouble. Hosein continued to torment them as he picked 4 out of the next 5 to fall as Uganda were reduced to 23 for 7 by the time he completed his spell and picked up his first T20I career 5-wicket haul.

Uganda were staring down at the prospect of registering the lowest total in the history of T20 World Cups, as Miyagi tried his best to avoid the situation. However, the tail was cleaned up quickly by the hosts, who will now get ready to face New Zealand on 13 June.