Abu Dhabi T10: Overton’s last over heroics ensures Team Abu Dhabi maintain their winning run

With
10
to
get
from
the
final
two
deliveries,
the
match
seemed
firmly
in
the
Bulls’ grasp.
However,
Jamie
Overton
smashed
Bulls
skipper
Dwayne
Bravo
for
two
massive
sixes
to
ensure
his
team
chased
down
121
to
continue
its
undefeated
run
in
the
competition.

Unlike
Monday,
there
was
to
be
no
Stirling-Salt
show
on
Wednesday
as
the
Irish
all-rounder
was
out
leg
before
on
the
first
delivery
of
the
second
over
by
Fazalhaq
Farooqi.
Phil
Salt,
however,
continued
from
where
he
had
left
in
the
match
against
The
Chennai
Braves
and
kept
the
chase
alive
despite
Liam
Livingstone
struggling
with
his
timing
early
in
the
innings.
Salt
reached
his
half-century
off
just
20
balls
when
he
slog-swept
Romario
Shepherd
for
his
fifth
six
in
the
sixth
over.

Shiraz
Ahmed,
who
had
bowled
a
good
first
over,
helped
Delhi
Bulls
pull
things
back
with
a
miserly
seventh
over
by
giving
away
just
four
runs.
Dominic
Drakes’
double
strike
of
Salt
and
Livingstone
in
the
next
over
tightened
the
screws
on
Team
Abu
Dhabi
who
were
left
needing
34
from
the
remaining
two
overs
with
two
new
batsmen
at
the
crease.

Chris
Gayle
and
Overton
then
took
16
from
Farooqi’s
ninth
over,
leaving
the
experienced
Bravo
to
defend
18
runs
from
the
final
over.
The
left-handed
Gayle
swung
the
pendulum
of
the
match
with
a
first-ball
six
in
the
final
over
of
the
chase
but
got
run
out
in
search
of
a
non-existent
second
on
the
fourth
ball,
leaving
Overton
with
the
job
of
finishing
the
game.

Earlier,
the
Delhi
Bulls
openers
started
strongly,
making
the
most
of
some
wayward
bowling
by
Fidel
Edwards
and
Merchant
De
Lange
to
notch
up
20
runs
in
the
first
two
overs.
Rilee
Rossouw
looked
threatening
in
his
brief
stay
but
was
undone
by
Liam
Livingstone’s
off-spin
in
the
fourth
over.
Playing
his
first
match
of
the
competition,
Luke
Wright
showed
zero
rustiness
and
hit
three
of
the
first
four
deliveries
he
faced
for
boundaries.

Danny
Briggs
put
the
brakes
on
the
Delhi
Bulls
innings
by
removing
Rahmanullah
Gurbaz
and
conceding
only
four
runs
in
his
first
over.
Briggs’
good
work
was
continued
by
Naveen-ul-Haq
in
the
next
over
who
conceded
only
nine
runs.
The
pressure
applied
by
Briggs
and
Haq
yielded
a
wicket
when
Wright
miscued
an
attempted
pull
to
give
De
Lange
his
ninth
wicket
of
the
competition.

However,
after
three
quiet
overs,
Shepherd
changed
the
complexion
of
the
innings
and
blitzed
his
way
to
an
unbeaten
39
from
11
deliveries.
His
knock
that
was
studded
with
3
fours
and
4
sixes
took
Delhi
Bulls
to
121
as
they
managed
to
score
43
from
their
last
two
overs.

Brief
scores:
Team
Abu
Dhabi
124/4
(Phil
Salt
56,
Liam
Livingstone
25,
Dominic
Drakes
2-12)
beat

Delhi
Bulls
121/4
(
Romario
Shepherd
39*
Luke
Wright
25
Danny
Briggs
2-20)