Rahul Tiwari
khelja|23-01-2025
Group stage matches are being played in the ongoing International League T20 (ILT20) tournament in UAE. Its 15th match was played on Wednesday 22 January between Desert Vipers and Sharjah Warriors. During this time a strange incident was seen. A batsman from Sharjah was seen pushing his own team's player in the match. Actually, Harmeet Singh got distracted while trying to steal the single and he pushed Jason Roy hard. However, he did not do this deliberately.
Batting first in the match, Sharjah Warriors did not have a good start. The team had lost 5 wickets on the score of 30 runs. After this, England batsman Jason Roy came as super sub. He handled the innings and took it beyond 50 but in the 13th over he got a strong push from his own player. Actually, on the fourth ball of Dan Lawrence, he tried to take a run by playing at point. He was running in his line but Harmeet Singh present at the other end made a big mistake. His attention was on the ball instead of the pitch and he also ran towards Roy and pushed him.
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Jason Roy fell on the pitch due to Harmeet Singh's push. For a while the threat of run out was looming over him. But he immediately got up and completed the run. However, he was very angry with the poor running but as soon as Harmeet Singh came to him and expressed his regret, he started smiling. In this match, Jason Roy played an unbeaten inning of 30 runs in 34 balls and somehow took the team's score to 91 runs.
After being bundled out for 91, the Sharjah Warriors bowlers were left with nothing much to defend. This boosted the morale of the Desert Vipers team. 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.