{"id":311808,"date":"2025-12-12T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311808\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:46:11","slug":"international-league-t20-jonny-bairstow-unbeaten-as-mi-emirates-race-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311808\/","title":{"rendered":"International League T20: Jonny Bairstow unbeaten as MI Emirates race to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jonny Bairstow struck an unbeaten 49 as MI Emirates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-231131\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raced to a seven-wicket victory<\/a> against Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in International League T20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bairstow&#8217;s side reached their target of 123 inside 14 overs, with the England international hitting seven fours in his 38-ball innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Emirates opener added 64 with Tom Banton (29), while Kamindu Mendis (10) ended the encounter with a match-winning six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Knight Riders opening partnership of Phil Salt (17) and Alex Hales (6) failed to fire after being put into bat, while United Arab Emirates batter Alishan Sharafu top-scored with 38.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liam Livingstone was caught by Banton off the bowling of Mendis (3-21) for just two, while Emirates lost their last five wickets for 12 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three of the tail fell to Afghanistan seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi, who finished with figures of 4-14 and whose dismissal of Ajay Kumar saw the Knight Riders bowled out for 122 with three balls to spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonny Bairstow struck an unbeaten 49 as MI Emirates raced to a seven-wicket victory against Abu Dhabi Knight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-311808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}