{"id":352785,"date":"2026-01-05T04:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352785\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:23:07","slug":"ilt20-2026-results-sam-curran-stars-as-desert-vipers-beat-mi-emirates-to-win-first-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352785\/","title":{"rendered":"ILT20 2026 results: Sam Curran stars as Desert Vipers beat MI Emirates to win first title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England all-rounder Sam Curran made 74 not out as Desert Vipers won their first International League T20 title with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-231154\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">46-run win<\/a> over MI Emirates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After being put into bat, Vipers slipped to 36-2 in the fourth over before Curran put on 89 with Max Holden (41 off 32) for the third wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curran, who hit eight fours and two sixes in his 51-ball knock, then shared 57 with Dan Lawrence (23 off 15), who was run out off the final ball of the innings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MI Emirates, who won the tournament in 2024, slipped to 54-4 in reply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan&#8217;s Naseem Shah picked up two of those wickets, including the key strike of England batter Tom Banton, who hit a match-winning half-century in Qualifier 2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From there, MI Emirates were also behind the game and were eventually bowled out for 136 in 18.3 overs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curran&#8217;s knock ensures he finishes the tournament as the top run-scorer (397), while Afghanistan&#8217;s Waqar Salamkheil and the United Arab Emirates&#8217; Ajay Kumar finish as the top wicket-taker with 18. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England all-rounder Sam Curran made 74 not out as Desert Vipers won their first International League T20 title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-352785","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\/352785","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=352785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}