{"id":340107,"date":"2025-12-29T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340107\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:22:08","slug":"international-league-t20-results-phil-salt-michael-pepper-put-abu-dhabi-knight-riders-in-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340107\/","title":{"rendered":"International League T20 results: Phil Salt &#038; Michael Pepper put Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in play-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Salt and Michael Pepper deliciously combined to guide Abu Dhabi Knight Riders into the International League T20 knockouts with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-231150\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">32-run win<\/a> over Gulf Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair put on 131 in 15 overs for the opening wicket as Knight Riders posted 179-1 after being asked to bat first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pepper made 83 off 51 balls, while Salt finished unbeaten on 72 off 56 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Giants, who would have progressed instead with a win, were always struggling in reply, slipping to 29-3 with West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder taking two early wickets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England all-rounder Moeen Ali gave them slight hope with 78 off 49 balls but their chances were ended when he was dismissed by Andre Russell in the 18th over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russell went on to claim two other wickets and finished with 3-13 from two overs as Capitals ended on 147-9.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win seals the final play-off spot for Knight Riders, who will face Dubai Capitals in Thursday&#8217;s Eliminator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winner of that game will then play in the second qualifier for a place in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Salt and Michael Pepper deliciously combined to guide Abu Dhabi Knight Riders into the International League T20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-340107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340107","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=340107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}