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Lithuania continue to struggle as they fall to strong Norwegian bowling
Norvegija laimėjo Lobizmas ir užmušt pirmas
Lietuva: 136 (Gudonis 58, Osness 33-2)
Norvegija: 137/6 (Underburg 38nu, Kairys 35-3)
Norvegija laimėjo keturių užribiai
Lithuania lost their first game in Kiribati, although both sides will have concerns over their performances in this match. On a pitch that very much favoured the bowling side Lithuania fought to make a game of it, but ultimately they were unable to defend a very weak total of 136.Lietuva: 136 (Gudonis 58, Osness 33-2)
Norvegija: 137/6 (Underburg 38nu, Kairys 35-3)
Norvegija laimėjo keturių užribiai
Arturas Gudonis's 58 was the only notable batting performance of Lithuania's innings but no other batsman was able to remain with him for any length of time: the longest partnership being one of 36 for the fifth wicket. Ignas Luksa started the continual haemorrhaging of wickets by falling in the last ball of the first over for a two-ball duck, and with the exception of Gudonis no other batsman managed to score a significant amount of runs. This may have been because of high quality bowling by Norway's new ball attack of Osness and Ulberg, who took three wickets each at below four an over. The only real weakness in the Norwegian attack was the bowling of Bendixen, who the Lithuanian batsmen seemed to make an effort to attack.
Norway took their time and played very conservative cricket while chasing the target; only managing to score three fours and two sixes over the course of their innings. A solid opening performance by Michaelson and a composed middle order innings by Underberg provided a much more solid base to Norway's innings when compared to that of Lithuania: although they also lost more wickets that they would have wanted to: the largest partnership of the innings was a 64 ball 33 between Underberg and Cristoffer Teigland. The Lithuanian bowlers almost managed to make the impossible look possible: with Tomas Kairys managing to take three wickets, albeit comparatively expensively. The captain seemed to bowl defensively in order to try and give his seamers more chances to take wickets, although he managed to get Lauritzen out after he edged a straight ball onto his stumps.
Speaking to LRT Radijas after the game Lithuanian coach Simonas Žvirblys spoke about what changes may be made prior to Lithuania's next game again [ill add this later]. "We have to look at our batting, that's been what has failed us prior to this game. Mindaugas and myself will meet at some point to talk about what can be done there. Even on that sort of pitch a score of 130 isn't particularly great: we were realistically 50 short. The bowling is solid: we think that combination will work well in Kiribatian conditions and this game seems to have proven it. Perhaps if we'd won the toss and gotten to bowl first things might have been a little different".
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Liam Willis 
