{"id":347304,"date":"2026-01-02T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347304\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:20:11","slug":"international-league-t20-results-phil-salt-michael-pepper-keep-abu-dhabi-knight-riders-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347304\/","title":{"rendered":"International League T20 results: Phil Salt &#038; Michael Pepper keep Abu Dhabi Knight Riders alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Salt and Michael Pepper combined again to keep Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in the International League T20 with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-231152\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">50-run victory<\/a> over Delhi Capitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair put on 122 for the first wicket with Pepper making 72 off 49 balls and Salt 43 off 34.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they were dismissed in a four-ball spell and Knight Riders slipped to 142-6 with Andre Russell, Alex Hales and Liam Livingstone all out cheaply. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jason Holder gave them some late momentum though, with an unbeaten 22 off 11 balls helping them to 158-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champions Capitals lost Toby Albert and Jordan Cox cheaply to fall to 31-2 and from there the spin duo of Sunil Narine and Livingstone took over for Knight Riders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Narine claimed 3-12 and Livingstone took 3-26 to put Knight Riders completely on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mohammad Nabi gave Capitals some hope with 27 but Holder removed him and Muhammad Jawadullah in successive balls to seal victory for Knight Riders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will face MI Emirates in Friday&#8217;s Qualifier 2, with the winner progressing to Sunday&#8217;s final against Desert Vipers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Salt and Michael Pepper combined again to keep Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in the International League T20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-347304","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\/347304","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=347304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}