Dwayne Bravo and Imran Tahir played ball as MI Emirates easily beat Sharjah Warriors in their second leg in Sharjah on Tuesday (January 17). suffered from a poor performance in the 2018 season, which prevented them from winning.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz started the proceedings a few lines ahead of Trent his vault in his opening over, but the New Zealand pacesetter got the last laugh out of a bouncer in the next over. Then, as the Warriors raced to his 59/1 in just six overs, Fazalhaq Farooqui was beaten by Tom Kohler-Cadmore in one over and he was beaten at four borders. Since then, they would have expected to charge huge sums of money to hunt down their opponents. However, the runs began to dry up and the second half of the inning belonged entirely to the bowling side.
When Moen Ali found a longtime fielder in the next over, Bravo removed Dawid Maran, causing a meltdown. Kohler-Cadmore, who was over 50 at this point, was castling for 55 after failing to read a flipper from Tahir. Next it was Bravo’s turn to hit Wood when the batting side removed Joe Denley and Mohammad Nabi in the same over as they lost four wickets for 20 runs. 140 wouldn’t have been cracked without Paul Walter’s cameo at the end. MI Emirates, on the other hand, is steadily keeping track. Will Smede found his fourth borderline in his first three overs and added two more before being dismissed by Junaid Siddique, but Muhammad Waseem reinforced again. Wasim, who had already scored 71 points against this attack a few days earlier, fought calmly with just 147 goals.
After his 6s and 4s on Walter and Nicolas Pooran, Waseem slowly reached 40 and pulled away 15 on his border in the mix. Nabi then got Waseem out with a maiden over, but Pooran and Kieron Pollard hit four sixes in the next three overs to significantly lower the equation. One of Pollard’s inside edges to the stumps made little difference in the end as Poulenc got the job done in the next over and helped MI record a dominant victory.
Brief scores: Sharjah Warriors 146/7 in 20 overs (Tom Kohler-Cadmore 55, Paul Walter 28*; Dwayne Bravo 3/25, Imran Tahir 2/17) lost to MI Emirates 147/4 in 17.1 overs (Muhammad Waseem 40, Nicholas Pooran 39*; Junaid Siddique 2/24) by six wickets.