DCvMIE Report: Waseem, Boult fight, but Gurbaz knock good for us on the day

Not quite the dream start we’d hoped for, but a lot of positives for us to take today. The MI OneFamily knows what it takes to start off on a false note and then reverse the campaign around in stunning fashion and march towards the title. There’s no doubting MI Emirates’ ability to do the same here. Let’s look back at how the evening in Dubai went against the Capitals.

The Muhammad Waseem explosion

It’s almost like he just resumed from where he left things last season. Or maybe he was having a secret net somewhere before he walked out to bat. Because he was wasting no time. Two fours, four sixes, 26 balls, and a blitz of 52 runs, forming a solid partnership with Andre Fletcher and Nicholas Pooran to lift MI Emirates past 100 inside the tenth over. 

Sikandar Raza turns the screws 

It’d be fair to say he turned the game around. It looked like a runfest in the first half of the MI Emirates innings, but once he came on, got the dangerous Waseem out, dried up the runs, and followed it up with the wickets of Pooran and Ambati Rayudu, he’d brought the Dubai Capitals back in the game, thereby restricting us to a slightly under-par 159/9. 

Boulty strikes, but sadly, Gurbaz is in the mood 

David Warner, retired or not, is a huge wicket. And we desperately needed early wickets if we were to make something out of the game. And Trent Boult delivered just that, getting the big man out. But Rahmanullah Gurbaz wasn’t in a mood to slow down. With Jake Fraser-McGurk matching him shot for shot from the other end, and no real scoreboard pressure for our bowlers to play with, the Capitals raced home with four overs to spare.