New Hampshire recruit Shan Masood praised the “group effort” of his facet after they received an exhilarating opening International Tremendous League sport 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 additional six deliveries, Hampshire’s Liam Dawson smashed the penultimate ball of his facet’s tremendous over into the stands for a six to make sure victory.
“What a sport it was, an ideal debut,” Masood told BBC Radio Solent., external
“There have been some nice phrases spoken by the captain Chris Wooden, who mentioned we needed to combat for each run as a result of on this competitors run price can come into play.
“James Fuller was additionally good and it was an ideal group effort – we had a number of slips in every division however I believe everybody made up for it in a method for the opposite.”
Hampshire introduced simply days earlier than the beginning of the event that Masood would play for them within the inaugural GSL on a short-term deal.
Masood is Pakistan males’s Check captain and led them to a 2-1 collection victory towards England in October, scoring a century within the first match.
Hawks’ common captain James Vince is lacking the event as he’s contracted to play for Delhi Bulls within the Abu Dhabi T10 competitors.
“I had no thought how this [deal] took place,” Masood added.
“I used to be taking part in first-class cricket in Pakistan, we had been nearly performed with our season and my agent mentioned that [Hants director of cricket] Giles White had referred to as and needed me to play for Hampshire.
“I believed it was an ideal alternative – one in every of my actually shut associates, Mo Abbas, is a hero at Hampshire so he messaged me and mentioned the lads could be actually good with me and it was an ideal proposition.
“It’s an ideal membership and I’m actually glad that it labored out.”
Hampshire subsequent tackle the Lahore Qalandars within the GSL on Saturday, 30 November.
