Jul 28, 2026 · 15 min · 5 segments
Send us Fan Mail The Vipers have kept themselves alive in the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League. Needing a win against the San Francisco…
Brian MurgatroydHost
Saiteja MukkamallaGuest
The Vipers made just one change to the side that lost so narrowly to Guyana on Saturday night.
There was some surprise that the unicorns opted to bat first when they won the toss, given the history of sides winning by batting second in this tournament, especially under lights, with Dew tending to help the ball skid on and making it tough for the spinners to grip that ball.
The Vipers, though, produced a disciplined effort with the ball, using seven bowlers and conceding only 11 fours and six sixes.
Shadab Khan was the pick of the attack with four for 13, and that included the crucial first wicket of Conor Oosterhuisen, who made an accomplished 37 as opener on a surface where it was tough to find any fluency due to spin and frequent low bounce.
Those four successes took Shadab to seven for the tournament, making him joint leading wicket-taker in the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League, along with another leg spinner, Osama Miya of the Lahore Calendars.
There was a wicket apiece for Zachary Carter, picking up his victim from just his second delivery, Nathan Smith and Kari Pierre, and only five wides were conceded, compared to ten against Lahore and seven versus Guyana.
Smith also took a brilliant catch at long off to dismiss his New Zealand teammate, opener Tim Robinson, off Shadab, but the Vipers also put down three catches of varying degrees of difficulty.
The target was 152, but almost immediately, Zachary Carter and Sateja Mokemala eased any Vipers' nerves with a blazing beginning.
Zak bludgeoned the ball and 27 runs came off the third over of the innings, delivered by left-arm Seaman swing bowler Gullum Mudassa.
By the time Drizzle sent the players from the field after seven overs, the Vipers were already 67 without loss, and thanks in large measure to Carter, had broken the back of the chase.
The delay was 20 minutes, and when play resumed, Carter reached his 50 in only 26 balls with six fours and three sixes, the fourth fastest of this year's tournament.
When he was dismissed, missing a googly from Anirudh Emmanuel, Riley Rousseau came in to play another superb hand, following on from his 61 against Guyana on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Mukamala... who had been content to play second fiddle to Carter, began to find his timing and played more and more expansively, eventually reaching his own 50 from 41 deliveries with three fours and two sixes.
The winning run was scored with 23 balls in hand, and that meant an enormous boost to the Vipers' net run rate, seeing them leapfrog both the Unicorns and Perth Scorchers, and into third spot, the final playoff place.
The Vipers made just one change to the side that lost so narrowly to Guyana on Saturday night.
There was some surprise that the unicorns opted to bat first when they won the toss, given the history of sides winning by batting second in this tournament, especially under lights, with Dew tending to help the ball skid on and making it tough for the spinners to grip that ball.
The Vipers, though, produced a disciplined effort with the ball, using seven bowlers and conceding only 11 fours and six sixes.
Shadab Khan was the pick of the attack with four for 13, and that included the crucial first wicket of Conor Oosterhuisen, who made an accomplished 37 as opener on a surface where it was tough to find any fluency due to spin and frequent low bounce.
Those four successes took Shadab to seven for the tournament, making him joint leading wicket-taker in the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League, along with another leg spinner, Osama Miya of the Lahore Calendars.
There was a wicket apiece for Zachary Carter, picking up his victim from just his second delivery, Nathan Smith and Kari Pierre, and only five wides were conceded, compared to ten against Lahore and seven versus Guyana.
Smith also took a brilliant catch at long off to dismiss his New Zealand teammate, opener Tim Robinson, off Shadab, but the Vipers also put down three catches of varying degrees of difficulty.
The target was 152, but almost immediately, Zachary Carter and Sateja Mokemala eased any Vipers' nerves with a blazing beginning.
Zak bludgeoned the ball and 27 runs came off the third over of the innings, delivered by left-arm Seaman swing bowler Gullum Mudassa.
By the time Drizzle sent the players from the field after seven overs, the Vipers were already 67 without loss, and thanks in large measure to Carter, had broken the back of the chase.
The delay was 20 minutes, and when play resumed, Carter reached his 50 in only 26 balls with six fours and three sixes, the fourth fastest of this year's tournament.
When he was dismissed, missing a googly from Anirudh Emmanuel, Riley Rousseau came in to play another superb hand, following on from his 61 against Guyana on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Mukamala... who had been content to play second fiddle to Carter, began to find his timing and played more and more expansively, eventually reaching his own 50 from 41 deliveries with three fours and two sixes.
The winning run was scored with 23 balls in hand, and that meant an enormous boost to the Vipers' net run rate, seeing them leapfrog both the Unicorns and Perth Scorchers, and into third spot, the final playoff place.
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