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CLAIM NOWToss Winner - Team Abu Dhabi won the toss and choose to bowl first
Deccan Gladiators beat Team Abu Dhabi by 63 runs
At 3-2, the head-to-head between Deccan Gladiators and Team Abu Dhabi looks a little too close with no clear favourites to pick. But you don’t have to read too hard into their form to see who’s doing better now. Deccan Gladiators may not be playing like title holders now but they’re facing an opposition that’s yet to open its in this year's edition.
We are backing Deccan Gladiators as the winners of this contest.
Tournament: | Abu Dhabi T10, 2023 |
Format: | t10 |
Venue: | Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
Toss Prediction: | To Bat |
Reigning champs Deccan Gladiators bowling is severely under-performing yet their bowlers have picked up more wickets than their counterparts in team Abu Dhabi. As far as batting goes, it’s chalk and cheese. On one hand, you’ve Deccan Gladiators who’ve consecutively posted higher totals than what they managed in the previous match. Their batting unit mustered 118 in their first match 1, 120 in second, and 123 in the last dig.
In contrast, Team Abu Dhabi's batters have fallen off the cliff. Their best effort with the bat resulted in 111 in their opening match. And they scrambled their way to 103 in their second dig, and were kept to 83 in their third match. This is in no way an equal contest, either with the bat or ball. Team AD is struggling to compete in the park so Deccan Gladiators will be raring to have a crack at them now.
With 2 straight losses, Gladiators need to turn it around quickly if they’re serious about defending their title.
96/6 in 10.0 9.6
118/8 in 10.0 11.8
118/5 in 10.0 11.8
83/8 in 10.0 8.3
103/7 in 10.0 10.3
106/0 in 9.0 11.78
111/4 in 10.0 11.1
115/4 in 10.0 11.5
Deccan Gladiators started their tournament with a bang, with an easy victory over New York Strikers. Two losses followed and they now find themselves in the bottom of the table at the 6th place.
Their batting has kept them alive in all these games, with Tom Kohler-Core and his Caribbean mates Nicky Pooran, Andre Russell, Andre Fletcher, and Fabian Allen all coming to the fore whenever required. But their bowling is in shambles, with everyone going for plenty in the three matches played so far. Their bowlers particularly the overseas imports Trent Boult and Luke Wood have been drilled by the opposition with a statistic suggesting that no bowler in their rank has an economy rate under 10.00. In both their successful campaigns so far, their bowlers were able to pick wickets and stem the flow of runs. But things are looking different this time around and their bowlers are nowhere close to executing their plans well.
A weak opposition in Team Abu Dhabi might be just what they needed to get that spring back in their step but they’ll still have to venture into the park and bowl well anyway. The result of this match will be riding a lot on how effective their bowlers are going to be this evening.
Tom Kohler-Core, Andre Fletcher, Nicholas Pooran (c & wk), Andre Russell, Fabian Allen, Imad Wasim, Trent Boult, Luke Wood, Zahoor Khan, Mohammad Zahid, Nuwan Thushara.
David Wiese, Nicholas Pooran, Tom Kohler Core, Andre Russell, Zahoor Khan, Luke Wood, Andre Fletcher, Imad Wasim, Fabian Allen, Nuwan Thushara, Mohammad Zahid, Trent Boult
Team Abu Dhabi have had an awful start to their tournament, losing all the 3 matches they’ve played so far. In several instances, they let their opponents get on top and dictate .
Here’s one. Chasing nearly 120 runs for victory, Kyle Mayers went hard at the first ball of the innings only to give an easy return catch to Jason Holder, who was brimming with confidence after a quickfire cameo of 29 runs including 3 back to back sixes off the last over. The rest of the batting broke down and lost wickets in clumps only to be reduced to 38/5 after 4 overs.
They stuttered in their chase and finished with 83/8, scoring just a couple of maximums when the required rate was around 12 right from ball one. On the bowling front, they let the opposition to get off to an excellent start.
Despite picking up wickets at regular intervals, bowlers from Team AD couldn’t quite keep the run rate in check leaking 57 runs in 4 overs at the death. With 3 straight losses, they’re yet to open their in the tournament and are looking far from being able to do so in their next match.
Kyle Mayers, Tom Banton (wk), Colin Ingram, Leus du Plooy, Asif Khan, Alishan Sharafu, Dwaine Pretorius (c), Roelof van der Merwe, Rumman Raees, Noor Ahmad, Tymal Mills, Alex Hales.
Alex Hales, Alishan Sharafu, Asif Khan, Colin Ingram, Leus du Plooy, Noor Ahmad, Rumman Raees, Tymal Mills, Dwaine Pretorius, Kyle Mayers, Tom Banton, Roelof Van Der Merwe
The match is all set to begin 3:30 PM local time and it’s going to be hot out there with the team chasing all set to enjoy much cooler conditions to bat in.
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This game of T10 is held at the Sheikh Zayed stadium, Abu Dhabi. It is one of the bigger grounds in this part of the world, but given that they just have 60 balls to negotiate, batsmen will not be too bothered about the dimensions anyway.
Teams chasing always tend to do well in this ground, but Deccan Gladiators batsmen at the moment seem like they don't actually care about which way the toss goes. Team Abu Dhabi’s only chance of winning is to bat first, get runs on board, and skittle out Deccan Gladiators for less.
It’s going to be an uphill task for Team Abu Dhabi’s bowlers to keep Gladiators’ batsmen quiet. But they better find a way because their batters are struggling to compile a fighting total and can't match up to the destructive hitting of their counterparts in the DG camp.
We are backing Deccan Gladiators as the winners of this contest.
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