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Gulf Giants vs Dubai Capitals, 23rd Match

Dubai Capitals won by 6 wkts
GG
156(19.5)
DCP
162/4(19.2)
PLAYER OF THE MATCH
That's it for this one. We have another game today. Hop tabs to follow that. For now it's bye bye.
Mustafizur Rahman is the Player of the Match, he speaks in Bengali. So can't bring you the quotes.
Mohammad Nabi | Dubai Capitals captain: It's a total team work. At the start, they start really well as a batting, but the changing point was that Fizz over get three wickets and the momentum shifted to our side. Later on, in the batting, the wicket is a little bit softer and a little bit slow turn start as well. The ball wasn't come to the bat. Yeah, it's many options, a lot of options in the bowling group. That's why it depend on situation, which bowler is impact in that situation, then we will use that bowler. Haider bowled really well in the powerplay and also the Fizz, that over totally changed the momentum. (on Powell) Yes, Rovman played really well in calculation. Calculate the game and he target every single ball. It wasn't that much easy pitch at the end, but he bat really well.
James Vince | Gulf Giants captain: Probably a similar pattern to our last couple of games. Got into a position to get 20 or 30 more than what we have done and when we lose a wicket we're losing two or three in a cluster. Kind of restricts the batters out there, have to lower the risk and make sure we are not getting bowled out or losing more wickets. Once you lose a wicket, getting the next partnership going, and then increasing the risk and putting the bowlers under pressure. But we are just not able to do that because they are falling in clusters which is obviously restricting us to 150-odd when we are in a position to get 170-180 which I think would've been a very good score on that pitch. There's obviously been a few forced changes with injuries and a couple of guys leaving the camp and a couple more changes coming. It happens in T20 cricket, you don't always go out and perform every single game. There's just a couple too many of us kind of not contributing at the minute. We've just got to find a bit more and minimise those bad patches in the game. Those two bad overs that we're having where we're losing clusters is putting us behind in the whole game. It's going to ebb and flow. We've got to make sure when we're on top, we stay on top. When we do get behind, it's limiting damage and flipping the pressure around on to the opposition.
17:39 Local Time, 13:39 GMT, 19:09 IST: Fourth loss in a row for the Giants. It's the experienced Nabi and Powell who helped the Capitals chase this down. Too many extras given away by the Giants and 10 wides cost them. Atal and Cox fell cheaply but Jahangir batted well before he found long-on. The unbeaten 54-run stand between Nabi and Powell took the Capitals home. Giants probably 15 runs short on what was a good batting surface. Stay tuned for the post-match stuff...
19.2
6
Mark Adair to Nabi, SIX, Nabi ends this in style. With a biggie. On a short of length on the stumps, Nabi goes on the back foot and pulls flat, just clears deep backward square-leg, who was on the fence, a skimmer and the Capitals win
19.1
4
Mark Adair to Nabi, FOUR, that should be that. A low full-toss and wide outside off, Nabi reaches for it to drive, the the thick outside-edge runs away wide of Gurbaz and short third man
19.1
Mark Adair to Nabi, wide, a wide to start. The wide line is way too wide outside off, left alone
6 off 6 Vince has a chat with Adair.
19
1 0 2 6 2 0 (11 runs)
DCP 151-4
Rovman Powell
47(31)
Mohammad Nabi
15(12)
Azmatullah Omarzai
4-0-27-2
18.6
Azmatullah to Powell, no run, a dot to end. On a short of length and off-pace just outside off, Powell goes on the back foot to defend it back
18.5
Azmatullah to Powell, 2 runs, low full-toss on middle, flicked away to deep backward square-leg and an easy two
18.4
6
Azmatullah to Powell, SIX, the slower-ball off-cutter again, dug in short outside off, Powell goes on the back foot and pulls high and way over long-on, hit that hard
18.3
Azmatullah to Powell, 2 runs, Dickson at deep mid-wicket fumbles and one turns into two. Sloppy. A slower-ball off-cutter on a short of length on off, Powell goes on the back foot and pulls, Dickson gives away one more
18.2
Azmatullah to Powell, no run, slower-ball off-cutter and on a good length outside off, Powell pulls, the under-edge goes on the bounce to the keeper, tried to hit that too hard
18.1
Azmatullah to Nabi, 1 run, again Mayers into the action, here at deep backward square-leg, it's on the bounce to him, short of length outside off, Nabi pulls and it's on the bounce
Azmatullah Omarzai [3.0-0-16-2] is back into the attack
18
Wd 1 Wd 1 Wd 4 1 1 1 (12 runs)
DCP 140-4
Mohammad Nabi
14(11)
Rovman Powell
37(26)
Mark Adair
3-0-29-0
17.6
Mark Adair to Nabi, 1 run, slower-ball off-cutter and short of length outside off, Nabi slashes it hard and straight to sweeper cover, this time Mayers fields well on the bounce
17.5
Mark Adair to Powell, 1 run, Mark Adair round the wicket. Full and wide outside off, Powell reaches for it to drive to sweeper cover
17.4
Mark Adair to Nabi, 1 run, slower-ball on a good length on middle, Nabi goes on the back foot to pull, the thick inside-edge rolls to short fine
17.3
4
Mark Adair to Nabi, FOUR, crucial four. A low full-toss outside off, Nabi gets forward to drive and sweeper cover who's Mayers stumbles and lets it go through his hands, two turns into four