GT20 Canada Season 3 _ Match - 19 Highlights _ Montreal Tigers vs Vancouver Knights

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In a must-win match for the Knights, they were up against the Table Toppers Montreal Tigers. The Tigers won the toss and going against the trend of the competition so far, decided to bat first.

This decision back-fired for the Tigers, as they lost the skipper Chris Lynn in the very first over. The Canadian youngster Muhammad Kamal found Lynn's middle stump. The Knights bowling unit of Ruben Trumpelmann, Junaid Siddique, and Corbin Bosch was on fire. Trumpelmann started off with a maiden. Dilpreet Singh played a couple of lovely strokes before chopping one onto his stumps. Trumpelmann struck twice in his next over getting, Rutherford and Wijeratne in consecutive deliveries. Muhammad Waseem held one end of the pitch for some time before perishing to Harsh Thaker. Andre Russell joined Dipendra Airee for a couple of overs before Trumpelmann got the Big Man. Next over Siddique got Airee, bringing the score to 90 runs for 7 wickets. The last 3 wickets only got 9 runs for the Tigers. They ended up on 99, giving the Knights a target of 100 runs to chase.

The Knights in their chase started off with Rizwan hitting 3 fours in the very first over. Andre Russell broke the opening partnership when one of his deliveries pierced through Fakhar Zaman's wickets. Corbin Bosch then joined Mohammad Rizwan in the middle. They both approached the chase with maturity, running ones and twos and hitting boundaries when required. In a short target, Mohammad Rizwan scored another unbeaten 50, taking his team to another important victory.

The Knights won the match by 9 wickets.

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