ILT20 Highlights: In a very one sided game, the Gulf Giants comfortably beat Abu Dhabi Knight Riders by 6 wickets in the ILT20 match on Sunday. On the surface where batsmen where finding it hard to score runs, Giants skipper James Vince batted smashed 44-ball 6. Ollie Pope and Shimron Hetmyer applied the finishing touches to guide the team to victory. Watch ADKR vs GLG Highlights with InsideSport.IN.
UAE fast bowler Sanchit Sharma lit up the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi with a blockbuster performance as the Gulf Giants defeated Abu Dhabi Knight Riders by six wickets in the third match of the DP World International League T20 on Sunday afternoon. Sharma picked up excellent figures of 3 for nine and helped the Giants restrict the Knight Riders to 114 for nine. Thereafter, the Gulf Giants captain James Vince led from the front with 65 runs from 44 balls as his team raced to their target in 14.1 overs.
ILT20 Highlights: Vince, Sanchit and Chris Jordan star as Gulf Giants maul Abu Dhabi Knight Riders by 6 wickets, Watch ADKR vs GLG Highlights
The Abu Dhabi Knight Riders couldn’t get their innings going right from the onset. Sanchit Sharma bowled out Colin Ingram for 7 runs off 10 balls in the fourth over and he picked up two wickets in successive deliveries dismissing Brandon King and Connor Esterhuizen. Liam Dawson also joined the party in the eighth over as he sent Paul Stirling packing for a run-a-ball 20, which left the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders reeling at 34 for 4.
Andre Russell tried to take centre stage with a couple of boundaries and sixes, however, his innings was short-lived as he was bowled out by Chris Jordan for 26 runs from 12 balls leaving the Knight Riders at 66 for 6 in the 12th over. Captain Sunil Narine smashed Rehan Ahmed for a maximum on the first delivery of the 13th over, but he was on his way back to the pavilion in the very next over when David Wiese got him out caught for 11 runs off 11 deliveries.
The Knight Riders found the fence only on two occasions following Narine’s departure. Zawar Farid struck Jordan for a six in the 18th over and he followed that up with a boundary off Richard Gleeson in the next over. Jordan bowled an excellent final over, dismissing Zawar Farid for 19 runs off 24 balls as the Knight Riders managed just 114 for 9 in their quota of 20 overs.
ILT20 Highlights: Vince, Sanchit and Chris Jordan star as Gulf Giants maul Abu Dhabi Knight Riders by 6 wickets, Watch ADKR vs GLG Highlights
James Vince plays a captain’s knock
Even though the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders had a relatively low total on the board, Ravi Rampaul kept his team’s hopes alive by getting an early wicket. He dismissed Rehan Ahmed for 7 runs from 9 balls in the third over. But all those hopes were shattered when captain James Vince smashed Rampaul for two fours and a six in the fifth over, taking the Giants to 40 for 1. Thereafter, Ollie Pope also upped the ante as he struck Matiullah Khan for two boundaries in the sixth over. Vince continued to showcase top and brought up his half-century following consecutive sixes off Akeal Hosein in the ninth over.
However, the Knight Riders captain Narine ended Vince and Pope’s 75-run stand when he bowled out Vince for 65 runs from 44 balls and Pope for 18 runs from 18 balls in the 12th over. Gerhard Erasmus also fell on the first delivery of the 13th over, but the wickets came a little too late as the Giants were just 20 runs away from their target at 95 for four. Shimron Hetmyer smashed a maximum off Akeal Hosein as the Giants wrapped up their chase in just 14.1 overs.
Gulf Giants’ fast bowler Sanchit Sharma expressed, “I am very happy with my performance. This is a dream start for me. I took three big wickets – opener, number three and number four batters. Those wickets set the game up for us. I bowled with the new ball in the practice games, so I was sure that I would take the new ball in today’s game.”
Meanwhile, the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders batting coach Ryan ten Doeschate said, “We’ve had two poor performances with the bat. The guys are aware of that. The Sri Lankan guys are getting in tomorrow, so we’ll have a few more options for our next game. It’s going to be important for us to react well to our last two performances. We need to maximize what we have at our disposal.”
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| Batsmen | R | B | 4S | 6S | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Vince (C) | 65 | 44 | 4 | 4 | 147.73 | |
| Rehan Ahmed | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 77.78 | |
| Ollie Pope (WK) | 18 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Gerhard Erasmus | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Shimron Hetmyer | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 216.67 | |
| David Wiese | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extra | 5 (b 0, w 4, nb 0, lb 1) | |||||
| Total | 115/4 (14.1) | |||||
| Yet To Bat | Chris Jordan, LA Dawson, Aayan Afzal Khan, Sanchit Sharma, RJ Gleeson | |||||
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravi Rampaul | 3 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 9.00 |
| Akeal Hosein | 3.1 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 12.32 |
| Matiullah Khan | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 |
| Ali Khan | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 |
| Sunil Narine | 4 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 5.50 |
Earlier in the day Abu Dhabi Knight Riders had won the toss and elected to bat first. Paul Stirling (20), Sunil Narine (19) did get starts but failed to score big runs. Andre Russell top scored for the team with 26 runs from 12 balls which included two boundaries and two sixes. For Gulf Giants Chris Jordan (3/28) and Sanchit Sharma (3/9) were the pick of the bowlers.
Abu Dhabi Knight Riders innings
| Batsmen | R | B | 4S | 6S | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Stirling | 20 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Colin Ingram | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 70.00 | |
| Brandon King | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Connor Esterhuizen (WK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Akeal Hosein | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 35.71 | |
| Andre Russell | 26 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 216.67 | |
| Sunil Narine (C) | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| Zawar Farid | 19 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 79.17 | |
| Ali Khan | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| Ravi Rampaul | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 71.43 | |
| Matiullah Khan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extra | 11 (b 2, w 5, nb 1, lb 3) | |||||
| Total | 114/9 (20) | |||||
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Gleeson | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6.25 |
| Sanchit Sharma | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3.00 |
| David Wiese | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2.50 |
| Chris Jordan | 4 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 7.00 |
| Liam Dawson | 3 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 5.67 |
| Rehan Ahmed | 4 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 6.25 |
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