{"id":310608,"date":"2025-11-26T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/310608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:48:08","slug":"t10-league-moeen-ali-hits-titans-to-win-but-defending-champions-gladiators-face-early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/310608\/","title":{"rendered":"T10 League: Moeen Ali hits Titans to win but defending champions Gladiators face early exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England all-rounder Moeen Ali crashed 31 off 12 balls to set up Ajman Titans&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233051\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21-run victory<\/a> over Deccan Gladiators in the Abu Dhabi T10 League and give them a fourth successive win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moeen gave Titans momentum at the backend of the innings as they posted 109-6. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gladiators were well set at 61-2 but Nicholas Pooran&#8217;s dismissal ended a 47-run partnership with Tom Kohler-Cadmore and sparked a collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defending champions fell to 64-5 and finished 88-7 as they suffered a fourth successive loss. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wednesday&#8217;s opening game saw Northern Warriors boost their knockout hopes with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233050\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">35-run victory<\/a> over UAE Bulls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand&#8217;s Colin Munro powered an unbeaten 77 off 35 balls as Warriors posted 138-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bulls lost England opener Phil Salt (6) early and slipped to 31-3 and were unable to recover, finishing on 103-7 and leaving them likely needing to win their final two games to have any hope of progressing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final game of the day saw Aspin Stallions keep their hopes of progressing alive with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233052\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seven-run win<\/a> over Royal Champs, who remain winless and are now eliminated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stallions posted 134-5 after opting to bat first with Afghanistan&#8217;s Rahmanullah Gurbaz top-scoring with 30 off 12 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jason Roy was dismissed in the second over of Champs&#8217; chase but Scotland&#8217;s Brandon McMullen shared 79 with Mohammad Shahzad, who retired hurt with Champs needing 38 off two overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aaron Jones and Chris Jordan both made eight off three balls but McMullen, who finished 59 not out off 28 balls, was unable to give Champs their first win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England all-rounder Moeen Ali crashed 31 off 12 balls to set up Ajman Titans&#8217; 21-run victory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-310608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}