{"id":320430,"date":"2025-12-17T06:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320430\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:44:08","slug":"international-league-t20-results-liam-livingstones-76-sets-up-tense-one-run-win-for-knight-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320430\/","title":{"rendered":"International League T20 results: Liam Livingstone’s 76 sets up tense one-run win for Knight Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"

England all-rounder Liam Livingstone made 76 off 48 balls to help Abu Dhabi Knight Riders inflict a first defeat on Desert Vipers with a tense one-run win<\/a> in the International League T20. <\/p>\n

After being asked to bat first, Knight Riders slipped to 9-2 with England’s Phil Salt out to the first ball of the game, before Michael Pepper fell in the next over.<\/p>\n

Livingstone came to the crease and shared 34 with Alex Hales (25 off 18) and 68 off 59 with Alishan Sharafu. <\/p>\n

He was happy to play second fiddle in both partnerships but Sharafu’s dismissal off the penultimate ball of the 15th over was a signal for Livingstone to go through the gears. <\/p>\n

He made 41 off 16 balls in a stand of 68 with Sherfane Rutherford before he was dismissed from the penultimate ball of the innings as Knight Riders posted 181-5. <\/p>\n

Vipers, who had already confirmed their place in the knockouts with a six-game winning streak to start the group phase, made a positive start with Max Holden and Fakhar Zaman sharing 97 for the first wicket.<\/p>\n

However, both fell in quick succession and Vipers still needed 68 from 36 balls. <\/p>\n

Hasan Nawaz and Sam Curran hit three sixes to keep Vipers in touch but both were dismissed alongside Shimron Hetmyer to leave last year’s beaten finalists 152-5 in the 18th over.<\/p>\n

Khuzaima Bin Tanveer hit a six from the final ball of that over to leave 18 needed from 12 balls but West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell conceded just five from the 19th over.<\/p>\n

Ajay Kumar started the final over with an above waist height no-ball that was also hit for four by Dan Lawrence, reducing the equation to nine needed off six.<\/p>\n

However, he recovered brilliantly and conceded three from the next three balls.<\/p>\n

He then had Tanveer caught at deep mid-wicket, before conceding two from the fifth ball to leave three needed from the last ball. <\/p>\n

Tom Bruce missed a slower ball and Vipers could only scramble a bye to finish one run short and suffer their first defeat. <\/p>\n

Despite the win, Knight Riders remain bottom of the table on net run-rate, but they are now one of four teams on four points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England all-rounder Liam Livingstone made 76 off 48 balls to help Abu Dhabi Knight Riders inflict a first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-320430","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\/320430","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=320430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}