Stallions out of CLT20 despite victory


JOHANNESBURG  –Glenn Maxwell scored 42 but Hampshire were beaten by six wickets by Sialkot Stallions in their final Champions League T20 match. This was a dead rubber game with both sides unable to qualify for the group stages and Hampshire made 143-8.  James Vince (18) gave the innings a good start and Australian Maxwell smashed three sixes and four fours in his 29-ball innings. But Haris Sohail's unbeaten 63 led the Stallions to victory on 144-4.  The T20 domestic winners began well as Vince hit three successive fours in the second over. but was run out after a mix up with Michael Carberry (11). Maxwell was the mainstay of Hampshire's innings and hit two successive maximums off Naved-ul-Hasan, before falling to the bowling of Umaid Asif (2-42). Liam Dawson, David Griffiths and Chris Wood all took a wicket to reduce the Stallions to 28-3 in their reply. But Sohail and Shoaib Malik (39) put on 96 for what a proved a match-winning partnership.   Hampshire scored only 31 runs in the final five overs, while losing four wickets. Umaid Asif took 2-42, but it was the disciplined bowling of Sarfraz Ahmed (17 runs off three overs), Shoaib Malik (1-15) and Bilawal Bhatti (1-9) that put a spanner in the wheels of the Hampshire batsmen. This is another dead rubber, with neither team having a chance of making the main draw of the Champions League T20 as both lost to Auckland Aces. Stallions made one change, replacing Qaiser Abbas with fast bowler Umaid Asif. Hampshire is being led by Jimmy Adams today, as Dimitri Mascarenhas has a slight niggle. Uva Next, Trinidad match washed out:: The dead rubber match between Sri Lankan side Uva Next and West Indies outfit Trinidad & Tobago ended without a result as rain poured down in Johannesburg before the second innings could get under way.Both sides had already been knocked out of the Champions League Twenty20 without reaching the tournament proper, so it the result was immaterial.Earlier, in the first match, T&T had posted 181 for three - the highest total of the CLT20 qualifying stage - with Darren Bravo (54) and Denesh Ramdin (50) both scoring unbeaten half centuries.  Uva Next's reply lasted just one ball as Shannon Gabriel dismissed Dilshan Munaweera, who was caught at third man for a golden duck, when the rain came and forced the match to be abandoned. William Perkins opened the Trinidad innings with a breezy 15-ball 32 and Lendl Simmons scored 34 before being bowled by Umar Gul.  Evin Lewis' departure for one brought Bravo and Ramdin together with T&T on 86 for three and they built an unbroken stand of 95 runs from 62 balls.  The match was a dead rubber, with Yorkshire having qualified from Pool 2 into the main stages of the Champions League.

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