MI Emirates started their ILT20 project with a 49-run success versus Sharjah Warriors in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, in what was the second match in the inaugural tournament.Teams are just obliged by tournament policies to select 2 regional players in a playing XI, however UAE opener Muhammad Waseem eclipsed his star-studded teammates with a 39-ball 71 that set up a total of 204 for 5, which proved ample.Waseem struck five 6s and fell with five-and-a-half overs still remaining after Chris Woakes had actually taken the early wicket of Will Smeed (2) and after that returned to have Andre Fletcher well caught behind by Rahmanullah Gurbaz.Woakes conceded just 23 runs in his four overs, however none of his colleagues were so economical: spinners Moeen Ali, Karthik Meiyappan, Mohammad Nabi and Joe Denly yielded 98 runs between them in 8 overs.Nicholas Pooran, among 3 former West Indies white-ball captains in MI&& s middle order, was an useful foil, making 49 prior to holing out to Denly at deep midwicket, with Najibullah Zadran beaten for speed first ball, top-edging Junaid Siddique to Gurbaz for his 3rd catch.Warriors& & reply never got going, with Afghanistan&& s left-armer Fazalhaq Farooqi requiring Evin Lewis to drag a wild drive onto his stumps, prior to trapping Dawid Malan in front with the next delivery, which nipped in off the joint and thudded into his knee-roll.
According to the Cricketer, Sharjah never recuperated from that double blow in spite of Gurbaz playing a fine hand for 43 in 31 balls.
Moeen ballooned to long-on for 15 and Tom Kohler-Cadmore (10) missed out on a hack off Imran Tahir &-- one of three wickets for the veteran leg-spinner, who also accounted for Denly and Nabi as the run-chase went away, with MI easy winners in the end despite a cameo from Woakes (62 ).
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