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Thanks a lot for joining me, Mohul Bhowmick, for this exciting game of cricket here in the ILT20 in Dubai! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did bringing it to you. Until next time, ciao!
Desert Vipers beat MI Emirates by 2 wickets!
Sherfane Rutherford 35 (22) | Muhammad Rohid Khan 3-21 Tim David 28 (14) | Mohammad Amir 3-26
Shaheen Afridi and Luke Wood hung around till the end to make sure that they knocked off the required runs and take the Desert Vipers home after a rather challenging start to the innings. Sherfane Rutherford's knock in the lower middle order helped their cause tremendously.
This is a rather strange result given that the Vipers were at the bottom of the table and the MI Emirates at its top. However, as we had said before, cricket is a funny game and these results take place more often than not. This victory should propel the Vipers to get more such similar results.
20
overs
150/8score
1
1wd
1
1
2
1
3
runs
Shaheen Afridi*
17(12)
Luke Wood
6(6)
Trent Boult
0/44
19.6 Trent Boult to Shaheen Afridi, DESERT VIPERS WIN THIS GAME! Fullish outside off, moves away. Afridi hangs back and carves it up and over point for three runs! Wood forces Afridi to run the third run in the end, and he succeeds! The throw comes in, but at the wrong end!
It is at the striker's end, where Wood has reached safely. Had it come at the non-striker's end, Afridi would have been short by some distance!
Three runs needed off one ball!
19.5 Trent Boult to Luke Wood, fullish on off and middle, comes back in. Wood only whips it away towards long on for just a single!
19.4 Trent Boult to Luke Wood, very full outside off. Wood manages to hang back and slap it to just wide of cover for a brace.
19.3 Trent Boult to Shaheen Afridi, fullish and wide outside off, moves away. Afridi whips it down to long off. Only a single taken. Six to go now!
19.2 Trent Boult to Luke Wood, very full and wide outside off, moves away. Wood pushes it to wide of cover. Single taken.
19.2 Trent Boult to Luke Wood, WIDE down the legside! Wood tries to whip it away to the on side but misses.