Abu Dhabi T10 League Match Highlights: Qalandars looking bold & confident as their winning streak continues

The Bangla Tigers and Qalandars met in the 19th match of the Abu Dhabi T10 League 2021 on Wednesday afternoon, February 3 at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium (Abu Dhabi). The Qalandars won by 7 runs against their opponent Bangla Tigers.

Bangla Tigers captain Andre Fletcher decided to field after winning the toss and sent the Qalandars to bat.

Qalandars opener Tom Banton lost his wicket in the first over. Then Captain Sohail Akhtar and Sharjeel Khan put on 51 runs in five overs. In the end, Qalandars scored 104 runs for the loss of three wickets in 10 overs in Ben Dunk’s stormy innings. Sohail Akhtar scored an unbeaten 49* runs and Ben Dunk scored 31 runs. Three bowlers took one wicket each for the Bangla Tigers, who were George Garton (1-8, 2 overs), Karim Janat (1-11, 1 over), and Qais Ahmed (1-12, 2 overs).

The Bangla Tigers batsmen were under pressure from the start to bat for 105 runs. The Bangla Tigers started losing wickets quickly with the great bowling of the Qalandars’ bowlers. Tom Moores then tried to pull the team out of the ditch alone. But the Bangla Tigers could not reach the desired goal of victory as none of his teammates could give him worthy company. As a result, the inning of Bangla Tigers stopped at 97 runs losing 6 wickets in 10 overs. Tom Moores (39) was the highest run-scorer for the team and Danyal Ahmed was the wicket-taker for the Qalandars (1-12, 2 overs).

The Qalandars are at the top of the points table with a winning streak of five matches in a row and the Bengal Tigers are at the 5th position in the points table after losing.

Playing XIs:

Qalandars – Tom Banton, Sohail Akhtar (c), Samit Patel, Shahid Afridi, Sharjeel Khan, Ben Dunk (wk), Chris Jordan, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Zahid, Sultan Ahmed, Danyal Ahmed.

Bangla Tigers – Johnson Charles (wk), Chirag Suri, Karim Janat, Afif Hossain, Andre Fletcher (c), Tom Moores, George Garton, Qais Ahmad, Matheesha Pathirana, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

Scoreboard:

Qalandars – 104/3 (10)

Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Banton, 0.5 over), 2-55 (Sharjeel, 5.2 over), 3-104 (Dunk, 9.6 over)

Bangla Tigers – 97/6 (10)

Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Charles, 1.3 over), 2-14 (Fletcher, 2.1 over), 3-49 (Suri, 5.3 over), 4-66 (Karim, 7.3 over), 5-82 (Afif, 8.1 over), 6-84 (Moores, 9.1 over)

Result – Qalandars won by 7 runs

Player of the Match – Danyal Ahmed

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