Dubai Capitals topped ILT20 champions as Sikandar Raza, Rovman Powell decimate Desert Vipers | Cricket Information
The Worldwide League T20 (ILT20) season ended with a nerve-jangling ultimate on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium on Sunday because the Dubai Capitals (DC) had been topped the champions after a stroke of luck adopted game-changing knocks from Rovman Powell and Sikandar Raza, who delivered a four-wicket win over Desert Vipers (DV) in an exhilarating end.
Sikandar Raza’s unbeaten knock of 34 runs in simply 12 balls stole the present within the final two overs of DC’s chase, which noticed exceptional hitting from the all-rounder to take his workforce previous DV’s 189/5, after Powell arrange the chase together with his innings of 63 off 38 balls.
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The match stored swinging like a pendulum through the run-chase.
After DC misplaced David Warner (4), Gulbadin Naib (5) and Sam Billings (6) early, opener Shai Hope performed the anchor to attain 43 off 39 balls, whereas Rovman Powell performed the function of the aggressor after getting a reprieve when he had scored solely 2.
Whereas it appeared like wickeetkeeper Azam Khan had cleanly stumped Powell off the bowling of spinner Nathan Sowter, replays confirmed his gloves barely in entrance of the stumps when he collected the ball to take away the bails. It was, thus, dominated a no-ball and Powell went on so as to add 61 runs extra.
It turned out to be the game-changing second of the match.
Powell then stored rubbing salt into the Vipers’ wounds, including 80 runs with Hope after which a brisk 41 runs with Dasun Shanaka (21 off 10), earlier than getting dismissed off the final ball of the 18th over bowled by Sowter.
The match changed into a Raza present for the subsequent eight deliveries, which noticed 4 fours and a six coming off his bat to ship the title-clinching win.
David Payne (2 for 28) and Mohammad Amir (2 for 35) took two wickets every for the Vipers.
Earlier, the Vipers put up a powerful 189/5 on the board due to the efforts of Max Holden, who made 76 off 51 balls, and captain Sam Curran, who remained not out on 62 from 33 balls.
After being put in to bat, the Vipers misplaced openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz (5) and Alex Hales (5) to pacer Obed McCoy (2 for 44). However Holden stored attacking whereas including 41 runs with Dan Lawrence (10) and 47 runs with Curran, earlier than the Vipers’ top-scorer was dismissed by Raza (1 for 42) within the sixteenth over.
Curran and Azam Khan (27 off 13 balls) then smashed 67 runs within the final 4.5 overs to take the entire previous the 180-run mark. But it surely did not show sufficient in the long run.
