ILT20 2025 Emirates vs Warriorz Highlights: Seifert, Charles And Southee Eliminate MI To Book Place In Qualifier 2
Sharjah Warriors upstaged defending champions MI Emirates in the Eliminator to advance into the second qualifier of the ILT20 2025 season. Captain Tim Southee led the Warriors from the front with a ball in hand, before Johnson Charles and Tim Seifert went berserk in the run-chase.
ILT20 2025 Emirates vs Warriorz Highlights: Seifert, Charles And Southee Eliminate MI To Book Place In Qualifier 2Sharjah Warriors upstaged defending champions MI Emirates in the Eliminator to advance into the second qualifier of the ILT20 2025 season.
Captain Tim Southee led the Warriors from the front with a ball in hand, before Johnson Charles and Tim Seifert went berserk in the run-chase.MI Emirates opener Andre Fletcher failed on the big day as the West Indies star was dismissed for a three-ball duck by Sharjah Warriorz fast bowler Adam Milne (1-29) in the first over of the match.
His opening partner Will Jacks responded with three confident boundaries to reach a near run-a-ball 18 before getting knocked over by Ashton Agar (1-20). With both openers gone, the Emirates reached 48-2 at the end of the six-over powerplay phaseTom Banton and captain Nicholas Pooran lifted Emirates’
scoring rate in the middle overs, with the latter leaving his mark with a sizzling 22-ball 42. Banton also carved 29 runs from 25 balls with four boundaries, but a sharp caught-and-bowled from Rohan Mustafa (1-20) curtailed his well-set stay by the time the Emirates
reached 73 around the halfway stage of the innings.Dilshan Madushanka (1-31) got the prized scalp of Nicholas Pooran in the 13th over of the MI Emirates innings, courtesy of a well-judged catch from wicketkeeper Tim Seifert. Dangerman Bevon
Jacobs also failed to lead his team to recovery, despite biding his time for 12 deliveries at the crease, as his full-blooded slog off Sharjah Warriorz spinner Harmeet Singh (1-17) merely landed towards
Tom Kohler-Cadmore at long-on.Warriorz captain Tim Southee further strangulated Emirates’ run-flow with the wickets of Kusal Perera and Romario Shepherd in the
slog overs to claim tight figures of 2-24. With no notable contributions after Nicholas Pooran’s cracking 42, the defending champions reached just 146-8 from their 20 overs.
