New Hampshire recruit Shan Masood praised the “workforce effort” of his aspect after they gained an exhilarating opening World Tremendous League recreation in Guyana.
The Hawks beat Bangladesh membership Rangpur Riders in an excellent over on the Windfall Stadium on Wednesday night time.
Masood scored 56 off 41 balls on his debut as Hampshire ended their T20 innings on 132, a complete the Riders managed to tie.
After Riders scored 12-1 from their further six deliveries, Hampshire’s Liam Dawson smashed the penultimate ball of his aspect’s tremendous over into the stands for a six to make sure victory.
“What a recreation it was, an amazing debut,” Masood told BBC Radio Solent., external
“There have been some nice phrases spoken by the captain Chris Wooden, who mentioned we needed to struggle for each run as a result of on this competitors run price can come into play.
“James Fuller was additionally sensible and it was an amazing workforce effort – we had a couple of slips in every division however I believe everybody made up for it in a technique for the opposite.”
Hampshire introduced simply days earlier than the beginning of the match that Masood would play for them within the inaugural GSL on a short-term deal.
Masood is Pakistan males’s Take a look at captain and led them to a 2-1 collection victory in opposition to England in October, scoring a century within the first match.
Hawks’ regular captain James Vince is lacking the match as he’s contracted to play for Delhi Bulls within the Abu Dhabi T10 competitors.
“I had no concept how this [deal] took place,” Masood added.
“I used to be enjoying first-class cricket in Pakistan, we have been virtually completed with our season and my agent mentioned that [Hants director of cricket] Giles White had known as and needed me to play for Hampshire.
“I believed it was an amazing alternative – one in all my actually shut associates, Mo Abbas, is a hero at Hampshire so he messaged me and mentioned the lads can be actually good with me and it was an amazing proposition.
“It’s an amazing membership and I’m actually glad that it labored out.”
Hampshire subsequent tackle the Lahore Qalandars within the GSL on Saturday, 30 November.
