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Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Rvel Zahid
Right then, we hope you enjoyed the game. On behalf of the team, this is Rvel Zahid saying good night!
James Vince, Gulf Giants Captain: The way Lynn and Cox played, they got us back in the game, but the bowlers pegged us back again, at one stage 180 was on cards and that would have been competitive. We lost a few key wickets upfront and I thought Hasaranga was fantastic. We need to tidy up a few areas.
Colin Munro, Desert Vipers Captain: It went a lot better, you win and you lose some, it's more pleasing tonight than the other night, winning the toss was big favour to us, Hose soaked up pressure and what an innings from Hasaranga. We needed to have plans in place. We didn't quite adapt to the conditions last time...you just gotta play the game in front of you and I think we did that pretty well tonight, would have been nice to get some extra runs in the powerplay. Tere was a lot of seam movement early on,. (Shaheen) he is a freak in a good way, he is too experienced, he know his fields and knows what to do and he executed his plans
Wanindu Hasaranga, Player of the Match: my batting (gave me more pleasure) I'm happy to perform. I normally did my basic thing, I batted no 7-8 in last three games, today got a chance to bat no.4 and I tried to do my normal things. I like to have a batting all-rounder tag in front of my name.
Vipers got over the line rather comfortably in the end. Azam Khan and Sherfane Rutherford ensured there were no hiccups and didn't bottle up the chase after a fiery knock from Wanindu Hasaranga, who was striking above 200, that helped them recover from the shaky start. Apart from Mujeeb-ur-Rahman and Chris Jordan, everyone else kept it under 10 rpo, with Dominic Drakes bowling splendidly and managing to bowl dots at crucial stages. A few more runs would have sent this game down to the wire. Earlier, Mohammad Amir and Shaheen Afridi, making his ILT20 debut, bowled brilliantly in tandem and didn't let batters break free. Hasaranga then followed it up with a solid performance in the middle overs. Only Chris Lynn was able to get going, and without his punchy 63, it would have been worse for Giants. A little bit more support down the order was needed, but they struggled against a quality lineup on a tricky surface. Stay tuned for the presentation
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