Philip Salt smashed 4 boundaries and 7 sixes in his innings, while Chris Gayle hammered 2 boundaries and 2 sixes in his innings of 30 runs from 16 balls.
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Team Abu Dhabi registered their sixth victory in the Abu Dhabi T10 after defeating The Chennai Braves by 7 wickets on Sunday. After The Chennai Braves scored 107/6 in their 10 overs, Philip Salt’s innings of 63 runs from 20 balls helped Team Abu Dhabi chase their total down in just 7 overs.
Salt started off in typical fashion, smashing Nuwan Pradeep for three boundaries and a six in the first over. However, Mark Deyal put pressure on Team Abu Dhabi by picking up the wickets of Paul Stirling and Liam Livingstone in the very next over.
Team Abu Dhabi quickly regained control of the match when Chris Gayle struck a six and a four off Curtis Campher’s bowling in the third over. Thereafter, Salt and Gayle put on a explosive stand of 71 runs and put Team Abu Dhabi in the driver’s seat. Salt smashed 4 boundaries and 7 sixes in his innings, while Gayle hammered 2 boundaries and 2 sixes in his innings of 30 runs from 16 balls. Curtis Campher dismissed Philip Salt in the seventh over, but Colin Ingram wrapped up the chase with a six and four in the same over.
Earlier, Mohammad Shahzad’s blistering innings of 53 runs from 30 balls helped The Chennai Braves reach an imposing total in their 10 overs. The opening batter didn’t find much support from the other end, but he found a way to strike the big shots and move the game forward. The wicketkeeper-batsman hit the very first ball of the innings for six, thereafter, he smacked Jamie Overton for two consecutive boundaries in the third over.
In the fifth over, Shahzad struck two boundaries and a six off Naveen-ul-Haq’s bowling, gathering 17 runs in total from the over. However, Team Abu Dhabi Captain Liam Livingstone completely tilted the match in his side’s favour when he dismissed Dasun Shanaka, Samiullah Shinwari and Mohammad Shahzad in the eight over, reducing The Chennai Braves to 82/4. Therafter, Ravi Bopara’s flourishing innings of 15 runs from 7 balls helped his side post a total of 107/6.
Brief scores: Team Abu Dhabi 113/3 (Philip Salt 63, Chris Gayle 30, Mark Deyal 2/16) beat The Chennai Braves 107/6 (Mohammad Shahzad 53, Ravi Bopara 15, Liam Livingstone 3/17).
Sunday, 28 November: Abu Dhabi T10, the world’s only ICC sanctioned T10 tournament, has announced its association with SmartCricket.com, a UK-based sports technology company. The partnership has enabled viewers to get a never-seen-before look into their favorite batter’s game on the live telecast. Batting statistics like bat speed, back lift angle, shot efficiency, and power of stars like Andre Russell, Moeen Ali, Kennar Lewis, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Tom Banton, David Weise, and many others are displayed on live broadcast during the League.
“Motion sensing is bound to be an integral part of all sports and we at SmartCricket.com have taken the first step in this direction with Cricket with plans to progress into other sports as well. IoT in sports is a potentially trillion-dollar sunrise industry and we are proud to have pioneered this revolution and put it on live broadcast,” says Atul Srivastava, Founder of Smart Cricket.com.
He adds: “The players are using BatSense, our revolutionary bat sensor that measures 13 different parameters for every shot, so you can know the bat speed, back lift, shot efficiency, power used, and many other metrics for every shot that a player hits or misses!”
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