Recent Match
International League T20, 2025, 7th Match, Dubai, Jan 16th, 2025

MI Emirates

(19.6 ov) 159/6

Desert Vipers

(19.1 ov) 161/5

Complete Desert Vipers won by 5 wkts

Player of Match: Fakhar Zaman

MIE 159/6 (19.6)

DV 161/5 (19.1) CRR: 8.4

Batter
R
B
4s
6s
SR
21
8
3
1
262.5
2
2
0
0
100
Last Wicket: Sam Curran c Pollard b Zahoor Khan 28(23) - 147/5 in 18.1 ov.
Bowler
0
M
R
W
ECO
2.1
0
23
0
10.62
3
0
24
2
8
Recent: ... 4 1 1 4 0 | W 1 1 1 4 1 | 6 Overs: 19.1
Three wins out of three for the Vipers and they're looking strong. ILT20 moves across to Sharjah for the first time tomorrow. Do join us for all the action. For now, cheers and bye..
Fakhar Zaman | Player of the Match - I think the fast bowlers were easy, but we were struggling against spinners. We just planned to play out their overs and take the game deep. It was just because of the way the bowler was bowling, the leg-side boundary was big, so I was looking for runs on the shorter boundary. It was very good, he's such a talented player (on Sam Curran), made things easy for me. Even though I was settled, credit goes to the way he's been playing in this tournament, it was amazing. The team and the management enjoy our cricket, not too worried about the results, just want to play some good cricket.
Lockie Ferguson - Feels great to beat a very strong Emirates side, nice to get over the line. Really nice today, Payne came in, it shows the depth in the squad, different guys are standing up at different times. Fakhar was superb, Dan (Lawrence) did well with the ball as well. We were not sure about the par score, but we felt dew was settling at the back-end of their innings and we were confident. Salamkheil bowled nicely, but Fakhar played him well and took him out of the game. Credit to Sam (Curran) as well for his knock.
Nic Pooran - I felt we were in the game, we were happy with 160, the way the pitch was playing, it seemed to be very tricky. It's still young in the tournament, Mousley got us two wickets, we went searching for another, but we didn't get it. Credit to Fakhar Zaman and Sam Curran, they played really well, we will have to look back at a few things, need to be consistent with the bat, take wickets in the PP and we should be fine going forward. Just surprised with his appetite (on Pollard's 900th six in T20s tonight)
22:02 Local Time, 18:02 GMT, 23:32 IST:
19.1
AM Ghazanfar to Rutherford, SIX, .. and it takes just one ball for Rutherford to end the game, darted quicker and at the pads, he swivels across and then hammers the pull over backward square leg, screams in delight as the ball sails over into the stands
AM Ghazanfar [2.0-0-17-0] is back into the attack
A big call from Pooran, it's 18-year old Ghazanfar who'll bowl the final over, defending 5 runs
18.6
Zahoor Khan to Rutherford, 1 run, low full-toss on off, clipped through mid-wicket and Rutherford will keep strike with that single, 5 needed off the last over
18.5
Zahoor Khan to Rutherford, FOUR, to third man
18.4
Zahoor Khan to Hasaranga, 1 run, excellent bowling from Zahoor - full and at the stumps, driven down to long-on for a single
18.3
Zahoor Khan to Rutherford, 1 run, yorker length delivery outside off, squeezed towards cover and it's only a single for Rutherford - 11 needed off 9 now
18.2
Zahoor Khan to Hasaranga, 1 run, full-toss following Hasaranga as he backed away, punched down to long-on for a single
Wanindu Hasaranga, right handed bat, comes to the crease
18.1
Zahoor Khan to Sam Curran, out Caught by Pollard!! Zahoor has now got Curran, 13 needed off 11 balls, still anyone's game? Was full and on off, Sam Curran couldn't get under it on the lofted drive and dragged it down Pollard's throat at long-on. Is there life left in this match? Sam Curran c Pollard b Zahoor Khan 28(23) [4s-1 6s-1]