As it happened: DTC Hong Kong T20 Blitz – Day Two

Watch: Galaxy Gladiators Lantau versus City Kaitak

Commentary

4:55pm: City Kaitak beat Galaxy Gladiators Lantau by six wickets. Easy win for City Kaitak with Tillakaratne Dilshan laying the foundations with his 38 and captain Aizaz Khan contributing 36. Gareth Harte helped out with 23 as Kaitak scored 158 for four in 15.2 overs, overhauling Gladiators’ 155 for nine. That’s one win for Kaitak from two matches while Gladiators have suffered two straight defeats.

Quotes: Anshuman Rath (Gladiators captain) – “It is an amazing experience to play with and captain players like Kumar Sangakkara. There’s so much to learn from them. Everything they say is gold dust. We lost two but now we can play with some freedom and hopefully the young guys will step up.”

Tillakaratne Dilshan (City Kaitak) – “It was good to get the win today after we lost yesterday. It’s been a good tournament so far and it’s good to be in Hong Kong. Things like that always happen in cricket [duck yesterday and 38 runs today].”

Thanks for tuning in today, and thanks especially to our Indian readers who are following the tournament even though there are no Indian players in the Blitz. We’ll be back tomorrow with two more matches.

4:27pm: Afridi’s best wishes: Shahid Afridi has sent his Kowloon Cantons teammates best wishes and apologised for not being able to come to Hong Kong, either as a player or mentor because of a hand injury playing for Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. “Sorry I couldn’t be with you because of my injury but inshaAllah I’ll see you next year,” says Afridi, vowing to play in next year’s tournament.