Champions Trophy matches will start from 19th February. The Indian team will play all its matches in UAE, starting from February 20. About a month before this, two Pakistani players had wreaked havoc in UAE. These players are Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Aamir. Although Aamir has retired but Fakhar is part of the Pakistani team in the Champions Trophy. This is the same batsman who hurt India by scoring a century in the Champions Trophy final in 2017. Now he has batted stormily in the ILT20 before the Champions Trophy and has scored 71 runs in just 39 balls. Let us tell you that in this match the team of Desert Vipers defeated Sharjah Warriors.

Aamir's lethal bowling

The 15th match of ILT20 was played on Wednesday 22 January between Desert Vipers and Sharjah Warriors. During this, Vipers won the toss and decided to field first. The lethal bowling of Mohammad Amir, who plays for Vipers, broke the back of the batting line up of Sharjah Warriors. He hunted 3 top order batsmen in the very beginning. Whereas David Payne and Hasaranga took one blow each. Due to this, half of Sharjah's team returned to the pavilion at 30 runs only.

Two wickets in the first over for Mohammad Amir as Desert Vipers dominate the powerplay against Sharjah Warriorz!

(via @ILT20Official, #ILT20 pic.twitter.com/OMzFo2JTdg

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) January 22, 2025

She could not recover from this 'wound' of Aamir in the entire match and collapsed within 100 runs. With the help of Jason Roy's inning of 30 runs in 34 balls, she somehow managed to score 91 runs in 19.1 overs. Whereas Aamir took 4 wickets for 24 runs in 3.1 overs. On the other hand, Sam Curran took 2 wickets for 14 runs in 4 overs and Wanindu Hasaranga took 3 wickets for 10 runs in 4 overs.

Fakhar Zaman's storm

After scoring 91, the morale of the Desert Vipers team was high. Therefore, the openers who came to chase started batting furiously as soon as they arrived. No bowler of Sharjah team had a hit in front of Fakhar Zaman and Alex Hales. Hales played a slightly slow innings and scored 23 runs in 21 balls but Fakhar scored 71 runs in just 39 balls at a strike rate of 182. During this, he hit 7 fours and 4 sixes. In this way, without losing any wicket, Desert Vipers won the match with 60 balls remaining and without any loss.

He came. He destroyed the opposition. He left.

Fakhar Zaman's stay at the crease was a belligerent one, leaving the Warriorz gobsmacked with his destructive batting. #DVvSW #DPWorldILT20 #AllInForCricket @DPWorldUAE @DP_World @ilt20onzee @TheDesertVipers pic.twitter.com/5stqlFmObQ

— International League T20 (@ILT20Official) January 22, 2025