Final: Surrey Jaguars vs Montreal Tigers - Global T20 Canada 2023
Montreal Tigers and Surrey Jaguars will go head to head in the final of third edition of the GT20 Canada. Both of the teams defeated Vancouver Knights for the place in the final.
Finishing in top two of the league stage, Surrey Jaguars defeated the other top 2 finisher Vancouver Knights to book their ticket to the final.
On the other hand, Montreal Tigers came all the way from Eliminator 1 to confirm their meeting with Surrey Jaguars. The Tigers defeated Brampton Wolves in the Eliminator 1 and saw off Vancouver Knights in the Qualifier 1.
The final match between Surrey Jaguars and Montreal Tigers will be played at CAA Centre, Brampton and will start from 9:45 pm Nepali time.
Preview
Montreal Tigers and Surrey Jaguars met in their opening match of the GT20 2023. In that match, the Tigers defeated Jaguars by 5 wickets. Chansing the target of 137, Montreal Tigers chased down in 18.3 overs with 5 wickets in hand. Dipendra Singh Airee scored 28 runs in 22 balls for the Tigers and Sandeep Lamichhane took a couple of wickets for the Jaguars.
Surrey Jaguars are undefeated in their last 5 matches whereas, Monreal Tigers have just lost one of their last five matches. With both team in brilliant form, the final match will be a close contest.
Surrey's Last 5 Matches: W W W Ab W
Vancouver's Last 5 Matches: W W W W L
Live Stream
Star Sports 2 will broadcast the match between Montreal Tigers and Surrey Jaguars.
Star Sports will broadcast all the matches of Global T20 in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Similarly, FanCode is the digital partner of the league in India.
Free Sports and CBC will be boradcasting the live stream of Global T20 League around the world.
Fox Sports will telecast the matches in Australia whereas, fans in Pakistan can enjoy all the matches of the league in ASports. TSports will telecast in Bangladesh.
Nepali Players
Two Nepali stars will be facing each other in the final of GT20 Canada 2023. Sandeep Lamichhane is playing from Surrey Jaguars whereas, Dipendra Singh Airee is representing Montreal Tigers.
Sandeep Lamichhane: Sandeep Lamichhane has been one of the important member of Surrey Jaguars and has featured in all the matches of Surrey Jaguars. In 6 matches, Lamichhane has grabbed 11 wickets with brilliant economy rate of 4.96. In those 6 matches, he was awarded with 'Moment of the Match' in three games and 'Man of the Match' in one game.
Dipendra Singh Airee: Playing his first ever international franchise league, Dipendra Singh Airee has been phenomenol. Out of 8 matches, he played the 7 matches. He was dropped in the second match but was included in the playing eleven in all the next matches. Out of 7, he batted in 5 matches and made 20 plus runs in all the five matches. He has scored totoal of 127 runs and has taken 2 wickets so far.
Teams
Montreal Tigers: Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Sherfane Rutherford, Carlos Brathwaite, Muhammad Abbas Afridi, Zahir Khan, Muhammad Waseem, Akif Raja, Aayan Khan, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kaleem Sana, Srimantha Wijeratne, Matthew Spoors, Bhupendra Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Anoop Chima.
Surrey Jaguars: Alex Hales, Iftikhar Ahmed, Jason Behrendorff, Litton Kumar Das, Karim Janat, Mohammad Haris, Sheel Patel, Sandeep Lamichhane, Jatinder Singh, Ayaan Khan, Bernard Scholtz, Pargat Singh, Dilon Heyliger, Ammar Khalid, Sunny Matharu, Kairav Sharma.