Deccan Gladiators 118 for 8 (Kohler-Cadmore 68*, Karunaratne 3-25, Jawadullah 1-11) beat New York Strikers 96 for 6 (Waseem 26, Zahoor 2-12, Wood 1-17) by 22 runs
Tom Kohler-Cadmore scored an unbeaten 68 off 33 deliveries as Deccan Gladiators beat New York Strikers by 22 runs in the opening game of the Abu Dhabi T10. The Gladiators bowled out 118 of their allotted ten overs, with Kohler-Cadmore smashing four fours and six sixes while keeping one end intact. The next highest score by a Gladiators batsman was Andre Russell’s 17.
Chamika Karunaratne took 3 for 25 for the Strikers, including consecutive wickets in the seventh over, but they failed to restrict the Gladiators despite inserting them.
The forwards were also in trouble early in their chase, losing openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Kusal Perera at the start of the third over. Muhammad Waseem and Asif Ali briefly rebuilt with a 33-run stand, but Luke Wood struck in the fifth over and got Waseem for 26 off 13 balls. The forwards continued to lose wickets regularly thereafter and stood at 96, with Zahoor Khan finishing with 2 for 12 in his two overs.
