Team Abu Dhabi beat Samp Army, Brathwaite stars in Chennai win
Team Abu Dhabi defeated Morrisville Samp Army by 18 runs in the 17th match on the seventh day of Abu Dhabi T10 League at the Zayed Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
Defending just 100 runs, the Abu Dhabi bowlers never let their guard down to restrict the Morrisville Samp Army side to just 82 and win the game.
This win has kept Abu Dhabi’s hopes of making it to the next round and the team has now climbed to fourth position in the points table.
In another match, Carlos Brathwaite produced another fine all-round effort to help Chennai Braves beat Deccan Gladiators by six wickets.
The former West Indies T20 captain took 1-25 from his two overs with the ball to help restrict the Gladiators to 108-3 from their 10 overs ater the Braves won the toss and bowled first.
Englishmen Jason Roy (57) and Tom Kohlercadmore (40) top-scored for the Gladiators.
With the bat, Brathwaite hammered 27 from just seven balls, including four sixes from an Andre Russell over, to help propel the Braves to 109-4 from 9.3 overs.
Dan Lawrence (40) top-scored as the Braves got their second win of the season.
Earlier, on Monday, Usman Khan and Adam Lyth’s stupendous bating display lited Northern Warriors to a 34 runs win over The Chennai Braves in the 16th match of Abu Dhabi T10.
Usman cracked 65 off 24 balls with six boundaries and five sixes while Lyth remained unbeaten on 54 off 25 balls with four boundaries and four sixes to help Nothern Warriors post a whopping 141 for 3 in 10 overs.
Chasing the target, The Chennai Braves could muster only 107 for 5 in 10 overs
Northern Warriors won the toss and elected to bat. Usman opened with Lyth and was in belligerent mood from the start.
He began by hiting Patrick Dooley’s fourth and fith deliveries from the first over for sixes to long off and mid-wicket.
Usman continued his big hits in the second over from Sam Cook. Ater hiting Cook for a boundary to mid-wicket off the second ball, he loted the fith delivery over the covers for a six. Lyth, who was watching Usman’s sixes, also hit Sikandar Raza for a six to long off. Usman hit his fourth six by to deep mid-wicket in that over. The fourth over from Olly Stone had no boundaries from both the batsmen but they made up in the fith over. Usman hit James Fuller for a boundary and a six to race to his half century in 17 balls.
He celebrated it with a six to mid-wicket. At the half way mark, Northern Warriors were at a strong score of 79 for no loss.
The big hit continued in the sixth over too when Brathwaite was introduced into the atack.
While Usman picked a boundary. Lyth hit a six to deep square leg. Usman’s stupendous knock ended in the seventh over when Stone with the second delivery had him caught by Adhithya Shety for 65. His knock off 24 balls had six boundaries and five sixes. Skipper Rovman Powell lasted only two balls to score two runs before hiting high to Ross Whiteley at long-off.
With the first ball of the eighth over, Sherfane Rutherford got out caught by Patrick Dooley for 1. Adam Hose too joined the six hiting spree by liting Brathwaite to deep mid-wicket for a six. Lyth ended the innings by hiting the fith and sixth deliveries of the last over for sixes to remain unbeaten on 54 off 25 balls. Northern Warriors posted a huge total of 141 for 3 in 1o overs.
Chennai began their chase through openers Dawid Malan and Adam Rossington. Ten runs were scored off the first over from Mohammad Irfan though they needed to score at a run rate of over 14 per over. Malan picked two boundaries off Abhimanyu Mithun’s second over for 12 runs from that over.
Chasing such a big score needed big hits form every over. Any tight over would mount the pressure and Isuru Udana bowled a good third over taking the wicket of Adam Rossington too. Rovman Powell took a brilliant well-judged catch at the long-off boundary to end Rossington’s stay at the wicket for nine runs. Though Brathwaite hit the last ball from Udana for a six, only nine runs came off it.
Brathwaite hit his second six off Junaid Siddique to deep midwicket. That over yielded 12 runs but the required run rate went up to over 16. Wayne Parnell took the prize wicket of Malan who hit high into the hands of Adam Hose for 15. James Fuller who joined Brathwaite hit Parnell to deep backward point for a six. With the score reading 59 for 2, and 83 needed off the last five overs, Udana returned for his second spell. Brathwaite and Fuller hit him for boundaries and 15 runs came off that over. Mohammad Irfan was introduced in the seventh over.
Brathwaite hit him powerfully to long off for a boundary. With the fith ball he dismissed the dangerous Brathwaite caught at sweeper cover by Lyth for 27.
This win has kept Abu Dhabi’s hopes of making it to the next round and the team has now climbed to fourth position in the points table