{"id":330689,"date":"2025-12-23T00:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330689\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:27:04","slug":"international-league-t20-results-sharjah-warriorz-beat-abu-dhabi-knight-riders-in-final-ball-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330689\/","title":{"rendered":"International League T20 results: Sharjah Warriorz beat Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in final-ball thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharjah Warriorz beat Abu Dhabi Knight Riders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-231145\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by four wickets off the final ball<\/a> of an enthralling International League T20 match as the play-off race heats up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 135 to win, the Warriorz needed 12 off the final over, bowled by former West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">English batter James Rew ramped the first delivery for four and Russell, appearing to be hampered by an ankle injury, conceded a no-ball and a wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Warriorz still needed one off the final ball and England spinner Adil Rashid managed to squeeze his shot wide enough of cover to scamper the single required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset wicketkeeper Rew finished unbeaten on 42 from 29 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Knight Riders posted 134-9 after electing to bat at their home Sheikh Zayed Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts slumped to 10-4, with openers Phil Salt and Alex Hales falling cheaply before Liam Livingstone made a duck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Indies batter Sherfane Rutherford hit 44 off 36 to give the Knight Riders some hope, while Rashid took an impressive 3-18, but it proved to be just not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top four sides in the six-team table will qualify for the play-offs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Warriorz remain bottom, on six points, behind the Knight Riders in fifth and Gulf Giants in fourth, who both also have six points but superior net run-rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knight Riders only have one match left to play &#8211; against Gulf Giants, who have two to go, as do the Warriorz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharjah Warriorz beat Abu Dhabi Knight Riders by four wickets off the final ball of an enthralling International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-330689","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\/330689","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=330689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}