I know the side is terribly disappointed, especially since it was such a crucial game. As I wrote in my story on Friday, Israel’s vulnerability is its batting, and that seemed to be the problem on Sunday, as too many batsmen underperformed. Everybody said however that the match was a cracker.
Cricket: Close loss to Croatia relegates national team
John Vujnovich hit a half century and took three wickets as Croatia bowled out Israel and relegated the national team to Division 3 of the European Championship in a nail-biter at the Hadar Yosef Athletics Stadium in Tel Aviv on Sunday.The Croats set their hosts a target of 153 to win the limited-overs match. Israel came within a whisker of topping that score, but it was not to be. Needing seven runs off the last six balls, the team had to rely on a tail-end pairing of Yaniv Razpurkar and Steven Shein, who could not handle the pace of Croatia’s powerful Phillip Siljeg.
