The 1st T20I Match of the Scotland tour of United Arab Emirates 2024 was played today at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai. In which United Arab Emirates beat Scotland by 8 wickets.
TOSS- United Arab Emirates won the toss and opted to bowl.
Scotland Innings- Scotland batted first and started the inning very poorly, George Munsey played a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 75 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 9 boundaries in just 49 balls, Jack Jarvis scored 21 runs in 19 balls, Michael Leask scored 19 runs in just 15 balls, apart from this, no batsman could play well and stay in the crease, Richie Berrington dismissed just for 7 runs in 7 balls, Matthew Cross remained unbeaten for 9 runs in 9 balls, Safyaan Sharif remains unbeaten for 6 runs in 8 balls, Brandon McMullen 1 run in 7 balls, Ollie Hairs, Chris Greaves, and Mark Watt dismissed without scoring. In this way, Scotland scored 147 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs and set a target of 148 runs in front of United Arab Emirates.
United Arab Emirates bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Junaid Siddique took 4 wickets just for 14 runs in his spell, Aayan Khan 2 wickets for 19 runs in his spell, Basil Hameed 2 wickets for 26 runs in his spell, Akif Raja was wicketless for 28 runs in 3 overs, Hazrat Luqman wicketless for 30 runs in 3 overs, Zuhaib Zubair also wicketless for 24 runs in 2 overs.
United Arab Emirates inning- United Arab Emirates chasing 148 runs in the second inning achieved the target very easily for the loss of just 2 wickets in the fourth ball of the 18th over and won the match by 8 wickets. United Arab Emirates started the inning very strongly, Muhammad Waseem and Tanish Suri came to start the inning and gave a strong start with a half-century partnership of 80 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket was dismissed for 80 runs in the last ball of the 9th over, Tanish Suri dismissed after scoring 37 runs with the help of 4 boundaries in 35 balls, next batsman Alishan Sharafu came to bat handled the inning and played a brilliant half-century partnership of 61 runs with Muhammad Waseem, the second wicket was dismissed for 141 runs in 16.5 overs, Alishan Sharafu was dismissed after scoring 32 runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boundaries in just 29 balls, next batsman Aryan Lakra came to bat and he remained unbeaten for 1 run in 2 balls with Muhammad Waseem, and Muhammad Waseem played a very brilliant unbeaten half-century and a victory inning of 68 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 43 balls. In this way, United Arab Emirates chased the target very easily for losing just 2 wickets in just 17.4 overs and won the match by 8 wickets.
Scotland bowlers- Jack Jarvis got 1 wicket for 33 runs in his spell, Chris Greaves 1 wicket for 34 runs in 3 overs, Mark Watt was wicketless just for 15 runs in his spell, Safyaan Sharif wicketless for 20 runs in 2 overs, Gavin Main wicketless for 34 runs in 2.4 overs, and Michael Leask also wicketless for 6 runs in 1 over.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- United Arab Emirates bowler Junaid Siddique was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling took 4 wickets just for 14 runs in his spell.
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