Match Centre
Match Details
Toss
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
Match days
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Scorecard Summary
ABU DHABI KNIGHT RIDERS 94 (17.1 OVERS)
- Michael Pepper32 (21)
- Alishan Sharafu26 (28)
- Joe Denly2/0 (1)
- Adil Rashid4/12 (4)
SHARJAH WARRIORS 95/3 (13.5 OVERS)
- Liam Livingstone30 (13)
- Niroshan Dickwella30 (29)
- Imad Wasim2/20 (4)
- Josh Little1/31 (2)
Scorer: Ranjith P | Commentator: Rvel Zahid
Thank you for your company tonight. We hope you'll join us again tomorrow for the match between table-toppers MI Emirates and Gulf Giants. For now, it's goodbye from me, Rvel Zahid, and the rest of the team at ESPNcricinfo
Sharjah Warriors coasted home by seven wickets and had a wonderful outing, but they might have left it too late in the tournament. Even though this win will give a lift to their net run rate, they'll be relying on other results to make it to the final four. Adil Rashid looks like the strongest candidate for the Player of the Match award; he picked 4/12 in his spell and brought the Knight Riders' innings to a grinding halt. Chasing the below-par target, Niroshan Dickwella and Liam Livingstone put any thoughts of a hiccup to bed by going hard in the powerplay, breaking the back of the chase
It hasn't spun like that in the entire tournament. We gave a good fight and didn't let them get away. We couldn't adjust fast, says Knight Riders captain Sunil Narine
Nice to bounce back, nice to win the toss and be able to react to how much it was spinning. We have got so many spin options, we even have five seamers so it was nice to get it right with the ball. We were just making sure we win, -2 was quite far away anyway (net run rate), says Sharjah Warriors captain Tom Kohler-Cadmore
Adil Rashid, Player of the Match: Felt pretty nice, seamers set up nicely which allowed me and rest of the spinners to come on our own. Fortunately for me and the team it worked well.
END OF OVER:13 | 5 Runs | SW: 90/3 (5 runs required from 42 balls, RR: 6.92, RRR: 0.71)
- Martin Guptill12 (22b)
- Joe Denly14 (12b)
- Sunil Narine4-0-14-0
- Imad Wasim4-0-20-2
International League T20 News
ILT20 2025 to begin on January 11, set to clash with BBL and SA20
Another potential overlap could be South Africa travelling to Pakistan for an ODI series as prep for the 2025 Champions Trophy, pencilled in for mid-February
Noor Ahmad banned from ILT20 for 12 months due to breach of contract
Noor was offered another year's extension by Sharjah Warriors, but refused to sign the retention notice
Pooran leads dominant MI Emirates to ILT20 title
Put in to bat, they raced to fifty in 3.3 overs and never looked back against Dubai Capitals
Mighty MI Emirates stand between Dubai Capitals and ILT20 title
MI have been boosted by the return of Nicholas Pooran but they will be wary of a Capitals line-up that enters the final on the back of four successive wins
Broadcasters requested late change to play-off schedule, says ILT20
The order of the Eliminator and Qualifier 1 was changed, with the Eliminator brought forward from Wednesday to Tuesday and Qualifier 1 pushed back from Tuesday to Wednesday