{"id":332359,"date":"2025-12-23T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332359\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:42:07","slug":"international-league-t20-results-mi-emirates-beat-gulf-giants-to-secure-play-off-spot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332359\/","title":{"rendered":"International League T20 results: MI Emirates beat Gulf Giants to secure play-off spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicholas Pooran made an unbeaten 69 to secure MI Emirates&#8217; place in the International League T20 play-offs with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-231146\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-wicket win<\/a> over Gulf Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 142, MI slipped to 2-2 with England&#8217;s Jonny Bairstow and Tom Banton dismissed in the first 10 balls of the innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That brought Pooran to the crease and the West Indies batter hit six fours and three sixes in his 69-ball knock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He put on an unbroken 140 with Muhammad Waseem (59 not out off 42 balls) as MI secured a fourth successive victory with 21 balls to spare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Giants posted 141-6 in their 20 overs, recovering from 49-4 thanks to 51 off 48 balls by former England all-rounder Moeen Ali. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win gives MI a four-point cushion in second, although they can still be overtaken and lose the chance to have two opportunities to reach the final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They join Desert Vipers, who have already secured top spot, in the final four. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defeat leaves Giants fourth &#8211; the final play-off spot &#8211; and their final game against Abu Dhabi Knight Riders on 28 December could be a straight shootout for qualification. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Pooran made an unbeaten 69 to secure MI Emirates&#8217; place in the International League T20 play-offs with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-332359","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\/332359","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=332359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}