Abu Dhabi T10: Danny Briggs’ last-ball maximum powers Team Abu Dhabi to a thrilling win

Team
Abu
Dhabi
seemed
down
and
out
when
they
needed
31
runs
to
win
from
the
last
two
overs,
however,
Jamie
Overton
and
Danny
Briggs
had
other
plans.

Overton
smashed
Andre
Russell
for
a
six
and
a
four
as
the
Gladiators
gathered
17
runs
from
the
penultimate
over.
Overton
scored
9
runs
off
the
first
five
balls
of
the
last
over,
reducing
the
equation
to
5
runs
needed
off
the
last
ball.
With
Hamid
Hassan
walking
off
the
ground
with
an
injury,
Anwar
Ali
was
given
the
responsibility
of
bowling
the
last
delivery.

Danny
Briggs
top-edged
the
final
delivery
and
Russell,
near
the
boundary
rope,
got
a
hold
of
the
ball
at
fine-leg
and
threw
it
back
into
the
ground.
However,
the
umpires
checked
if
Russell
made
contact
with
the
boundary
rope
while
carrying
out
the
catch,
and
thereafter,
a
six
was
given
to
Team
Abu
Dhabi.

Wanindu
Hasaranga
bowled
brilliantly
early
on
in
Team
Abu
Dhabi’s
innings.
He
dismissed
Captain
Liam
Livingstone,
Colin
Ingram,
Chris
Benjamin
and
Marchant
de
Lange,
leaving
Team
Abu
Dhabi
at
51/6
in
5.3
overs.
Thereafter,
Overton
and
Briggs
held
their
nerve
and
took
Team
Abu
Dhabi
to
victory.

Earlier,
Fidel
Edwards
rocked
the
Deccan
Gladiators
after
trapping
Tom
Banton
LBW
and
bowling
out
Tom
Moores
for
nought
in
the
first
over
itself.
Naveen-ul-Haq
made
matters
worse
for
the
Gladiators
when
he
dismissed
Tom
Kohler-Cadmore
and
Andre
Russell
in
successive
deliveries,
leaving
the
Gladiators
at
18/5
in
4.2
overs.

Thereafter,
Hasaranga
tried
to
get
a
move
on
for
the
Deccan
Gladiators.
He
struck
Naveen-ul-Haq
for
two
boundaries
in
the
fifth
over
and
then
smashed
a
four
and
a
six
off
Danny
Briggs’ bowling
in
the
next
over.
However,
Hasaranga
tried
to
steal
a
quick
single
off
the
first
delivery
of
the
seventh
over
and
found
himself
well
short
of
the
crease.

Following
the
Sri
Lankan’s
departure,
Odean
Smith
took
centre
stage
for
the
Gladiators.
He
smashed
Marchant
de
Lange
for
two
sixes
and
a
four
in
the
ninth
over,
taking
the
Gladiators’
score
to
87/7.
Smith’s
quick-fire
innings
of
34
runs
from
11
balls
helped
his
team
reach
a
competitive
score
of
97/9
in
their
10
overs.

Brief
scores:
Team
Abu
Dhabi
99/6
(Jamie
Overton
33*,
Liam
Livingstone
21,
Wanindu
Hasaranga
4-12)
beat

Deccan
Gladiators
97/9
(Odean
Smith
34,
Wanindu
Hasaranga
30,
Fidel
Edwards
2-10)
by
4
wickets.

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