MI Emirates Vs Dubai Capitals In ILT20: In the International League T20, the match between MI Emirates and Dubai Capitals was played in Dubai. In this match, Dubai Capitals won the toss and invited MI Emirates to bat first. MI Emirates, batting first, scored 40 runs without the loss of any wicket in the powerplay. England’s experienced batsman Jonny Bairstow played a brilliant inning of 67 runs to take the team to a fighting total.
Bairstow scored a brilliant half-century
Thanks to the half-century of Jonny Bairstow (67 runs in 40 balls), MI Emirates team, batting first, could only score 137 runs for eight wickets. For Capitals, Mustafizur Rahman took three wickets for 34 runs while Jawadullah took two wickets for seven runs. The Dubai Capitals team faltered while chasing a small target and were all out after scoring 130 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. Batting for Dubai Capitals, Jordan Cox scored 46 runs and Shayan Jahangir scored 34 runs. Apart from these two, no other batsman of Capitals could score more than 12 runs.
Rashid’s economical bowling against Dubai Capitals
Rashid Khan played an important role in MI Emirates’ victory by bowling brilliantly. This leg spinner from Afghanistan took 2 wickets for 14 runs in 4 overs with an economy of just 3.50. Apart from him, Romario Shepherd and Naveen Ul Haq also took two wickets each. Due to which Dubai Capitals could not chase the small total of 137 runs. Rashid Khan was given the ‘Player of the Match’ award for his economical bowling.
What number are both teams in the points table?
After a thrilling 7-run win against Dubai Capitals, MI has reached the third position in the points table of the Emirates ILT20 tournament with 6 points. At the same time, due to the defeat against MI Emirates, Dubai Capitals is at fourth position in the points table with 4 points.
