Abu Dhabi T10: Qalandars didn't peak early, says Dunk

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The Qalandars lost to Team Abu Dhabi on Friday. (Supplied photo)
The Qalandars lost to Team Abu Dhabi on Friday. (Supplied photo)

Dubai - Back-to-back defeats — to the Delhi Bulls and Team Abu Dhabi in their final Super League and Eliminator 1, put them out of contention

By James Jose

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Published: Fri 5 Feb 2021, 9:03 PM

Last updated: Fri 5 Feb 2021, 9:16 PM

Australian Ben Dunk refuted the suggestion that the Qalandars had peaked a tad too early and said that it was better to win games early on rather than leave it till the end.

The Qalandars had been the team to beat during the early stages of the Alubond Abu Dhabi T10 League with five wins on the bounce.


But back-to-back defeats — to the Delhi Bulls and Team Abu Dhabi in their final Super League and Eliminator 1, put them out of contention.

Following the six-wicket defeat to Team Abu Dhabi at the Zayed Cricket Stadium on Friday night, the Qalandars go into the third-place play-off on Saturday.


“It is a good question and history will now probably say yes,” Dunk replied when asked whether they had peaked early.

“But it is better to be winning games earlier in the tournament than being under pressure to try and make finals. The top four teams are all very good teams and I guess that’s a credit to the competition to have such high-quality players across four teams. We have come up on the losing side unfortunately,” he added.

And the wicketkeeper-batsman felt that they didn’t have one big individual performance to fire them up.

“It is such a short format that individual performances perhaps have such a big impact on the game and unfortunately we just didn’t have one of those today, with the bat. And we didn’t have one yesterday either. And that’s the difference between winning and losing,” said the 33-year-old Queenslander.

Brief scores:

Qalandars: 83-7 in 10 overs (Shahid Afridi 24, Sohail Akhtar 17, Samit Patel 16, Sharjeel Khan 12, Naveen-ul-Haq 2-6, Obed McCoy 2-11, Tom Helm 2-22) lost to Team Abu Dhabi: 88-4 in 8.4 overs (Ben Duckett 27 not out, Joe Clarke 22, Chris Gayle 15, Sultan Ahmed 2-21) by 6 wickets.

james@khaleejtimes.com


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