Desert Vipers Vs Gulf Giants 19th Match 03 February 2024

19th T20 • Dubai International Cricket Stadium • Dubai

Gulf Giants

160/7 (20)

Desert Vipers

161/4 (16.5)

DV won by 6 wickets

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Player of the Match Azam Khan

50(20)

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Gulf Giants

160/7 (20)

Batters

Jamie Smith

93.75

c Hasaranga b Pathirana

James Vince

0.00

c Khan b Amir

Chris Lynn

114.81

c Pathirana b Hasaranga

Jordan Cox

144.44

c Khan b Amir

Usman Khan

66.67

c Mustafa b Hasaranga

Shimron Hetmyer

173.91

Not out

Gerhard Erasmus

180.00

b Pathirana

Jamie Overton

114.29

c Wood b Amir

Chris Jordan

33.33

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 10)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8)

160/7

Did not Bat

Blessing Muzarabani, Zohaib Zubair, Carlos Brathwaite

Bowlers

EXT

Mohammad Amir

8.50

Luke Wood

9.25

Tymal Mills

8.75

Wanindu Hasaranga

3.75

Matheesha Pathirana

9.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

James Vince

c Khan b Amir

1-5

0.5

Jamie Smith

c Hasaranga b Pathirana

2-46

6.6

Chris Lynn

c Pathirana b Hasaranga

3-46

7.2

Usman Khan

c Mustafa b Hasaranga

4-65

11.3

Jordan Cox

c Khan b Amir

5-91

13.5

Gerhard Erasmus

b Pathirana

6-114

15.6

Jamie Overton

c Wood b Amir

7-145

18.3

Desert Vipers

161/4 (16.5)

Batters

Rohan Mustafa

83.33

c & b Brathwaite

Alex Hales

146.67

c Vince b Zubair

Colin Munro

141.67

c Gerhard Erasmus b Muzarabani

Wanindu Hasaranga

33.33

c Hetmyer b Zubair

Azam Khan

250.00

Not out

Adam Hose

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 1, NB: 1, W: 1)

TOTAL

(16.5 Ov, RR: 9.47)

161/4

Did not Bat

Ali Naseer, Mohammad Amir, Luke Wood, Tymal Mills, Matheesha Pathirana, Sherfane Rutherford

Bowlers

EXT

Blessing Muzarabani

3.5

6.52

Carlos Brathwaite

11.33

Jamie Overton

10.33

Chris Jordan

5.50

Zohaib Zubair

12.25

Gerhard Erasmus

9.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Rohan Mustafa

c & b Brathwaite

1-23

3.3

Alex Hales

c Vince b Zubair

2-77

10.1

Wanindu Hasaranga

c Hetmyer b Zubair

3-79

10.5

Colin Munro

c Gerhard Erasmus b Muzarabani

4-159

16.2

Match Info

Date & Time

03 Feb, 04:00 PM IST

Venue

Dubai International Cricket Stadium

Match

19th T20,

International League T20

Umpires

Aleem Dar (Pakistan), Ruchira Palliyaguruge (Sri Lanka), Paul Wilson (Australia, TV)

Referee

Simon Taufel (Australia)

Toss

Desert Vipers elected to bowl

1 0 1 6 4 1

Over 14

Runs: 13

6 6 1 1 4 4

Over 15

Runs: 22

6 6 1nb 4 4 1 4

Over 16

Runs: 26

0 W 1 0 0 1wd

Over 17

Runs: 2

All Overs

Player of the Match Azam Khan

50(20)

Commentary

That's it from the first match of the day of ILT20 with the Desert Vipers registering a dominant victory over the Gulf Giants. The Vipers have taken the third position in the points table from the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders who will be playing against the Dubai Capitals in a just a while from now. Do join us for that, as this is the pair of Sourabh and Pradeep taking your leave for now. Goodbye!

Azam Khan (Player of the match) - Enjoyed the game. I always believe in myself that I have the ability to finish games. I was looking for a big over and I got that from Carlos Brathwaite. I do not look at records like the fastest fifties, T20 is a small game and I think the better the strike rate the better the batter in this format. Certainly going to celebrate tonight!

Colin Munro (Desert Vipers captain): Happy and hilarious, I'm alright. We started off well with the ball, got the wicket of Vince and then finished well in the end. We gave away 10-15 too many in the end, nice to see Hales do well at the top of the order. We know what Azam Khan can do when he gets going. I've had time in the middle, but just not the runs, but is happy tonight, speaking to the coaches and guys back home, Luke Ronchi. It's a great team win, we're in the middle table, we hopefully get to the top of the table tomorrow.

James Vince (Gulf Giants captain): Didn't get off to a great start, losing myself early and finished strong, perhaps in the middle, it was difficult an tough to judge what the score though. The ball wasn't coming on all that well and 160 was never going to be enough, it was something to bowl at. That partnership and Azam played a blinder, took the game away from us. Bowlers did pretty well, but we didn't keep pecking back to take the wickets. Just go back, think and dust yourselves to come back to do well.

Desert Vipers won by 6 wickets
Colin Munro 51(36) | Mohammad Amir 3/34(4)
Shimron Hetmyer 40*(23) | Zohaib Zubair 2/49(4)

Desert Vipers have eventually won this match at a canter and have jumped right from the bottom to take the third position on the points table.

Having won the toss, Desert Vipers restricted the Gulf Giants to an under- par score of 160. Mohammad Amir and Wanindu Hasaranga starred with the ball for the Vipers as the Giants never really got going in their batting innings. It was eventually a 40* from Hetmyer which took them to 160 with none of their batters making any other big contributions.

160 was never going to be enough at this venue and the batters from Vipers proved exactly that. With the quickest fifty in the tournament history from Azam Khan and another brilliant one from the skipper Colin Munro, the Vipers have finished this chase off rather early. The Giants only had a slight opening in the middle when their young leggie Zubair got a couple of wickets in an over. But, that was that for Giants in this game. Stay tuned for the presentations!

16.6 Blessing Muzarabani to Azam Khan, WIDE! THAT IS THAT! It's an anti-climatic end to the game, but what a knock that from Azam Khan, came in and took the game from the scruff of the neck and gets his team over the line. Muzarabani tries to keep it well outside the off-stump, but that just goes past the tramline and has been called the wide.

16.5 Blessing Muzarabani to Azam Khan, OH! Bangs in the short delivery on the off-stump, Azam gets inside the line to pull but misses, through to the keeper.

16.4 Blessing Muzarabani to Azam Khan, short outside the off-stump, Azam reaches to smack that one away, but mistimes it to mid-off.

16.3 Blessing Muzarabani to Adam Hose, length delivery on the leg-stump. Hose whips it past square-leg and they settle for a single. Scores are level now!

Adam Hose, RHB, comes to the crease.

16.2 Blessing Muzarabani to Colin Munro, OUT! PICKED OUT DEEP SQUARE-LEG! Munro going for the glory shot and perishes. Short into the batter, Munro not in any sort of control with the pull shot, went straight to Erasmus who takes a simple catch.

Colin Munro c Gerhard Erasmus b Blessing Muzarabani 51(36b, 6x4, 2x6).

16.1 Blessing Muzarabani to Colin Munro, back of a length, from round the wicket, nips away wide of off-stump. Munro has a loose waft at it and gets beaten.

Blessing Muzarabani [3.0-0-23-1] is back into the attack.

Timeout! ANOTHER HUGE OVER FOR 26 RUNS!!! Just 2 more runs needed and you wonder what will be discussed in this timeout! Certainly not a lot can be said now with the match almost over.

overs

159 /3 score

1nb

runs

Azam Khan *

50 (18)

Colin Munro

51 (34)

Zohaib Zubair

2 /49

15.6 Zuhaib Zubair to Azam Khan, FOUR! FASTEST ILT20 FIFTY FOR AZAM KHAN! Short on the stumps, Azam pounces on it as he went back and clobbered it to deep square-leg, goes one bounce into the ropes for a boundary.

15.5 Zuhaib Zubair to Colin Munro, drags it short on the leg-stump, Munro tucked it past square-leg for a single.

Can the Vipers finish it off in this over itself? Munro is certainly looking to do that as he has gotten to his first half-century of the tournament.

15.4 Zuhaib Zubair to Colin Munro, FOUR MORE! FIFTY FOR MUNRO! Started off slow, but that was the need of the hour for him and brings up his fifty now. Good length on the stumps, Munro nails the reverse sweep, through backward point and races away to the ropes.

15.3 Zuhaib Zubair to Colin Munro, FOUR! SHOT! Wheels are coming off now for the Giants. Flighted a full delivery outside the off-stump, Munro hangs back and spanked it over the top of extra-cover, runs away for another boundary.

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