After winning the toss and electing to field first, the Tigers restricted the Knights to 137-6 off their 20 overs.
Pakistani opener Mohammad Rizwan led the way for the Knights with 39 off 33 balls while South African Corbin Bosch hit a 28-ball 36 including one four and three sixes.
Abbas Afridi was the main destroyer for the Tigers with 5-29 from his four overs.
Montreal’s chase did not get off to a good start at all as they lost their first four wickets for just 29 runs within the first five overs. A 43-run fifth wicket stand between Rutherford and Dipendra Singh Airee provided some stability before the latter fell in the 13th over.
Another hard-hitting West Indian, Andre Russell, joined Rutherford at the crease and the pair added just 18 before Russell fell in the 15th over for an 11-ball 17 including one four and two sixes.
Carlos Brathwaite then joined Rutherford at the crease but didn’t last long, facing only two balls and making one to leave the Tigers 97-7 in the middle of the 16th over.
17-year-old Aayan Afzal Khan then joined Rutherford and the two formed what eventually became a match-winning 26-run eighth wicket partnership before Khan was the first of consecutive wickets in the 19th over bowled by Junaid Siddique leaving the Tigers needing 15 off the last over with Rutherford on strike facing Rayyan Pathan’s medium pace.
The pressure did not phase Rutherford at all as he deposited the first three balls of the over into the crowd to book the Tigers spot in the final set for Sunday against the Surrey Jaguars at the same venue.
Rutherford finished 48* off 34 balls including two fours and three sixes.
Siddique took 4-22 from his four overs for the Knights. Fabian Allen gave the Knights a good start with 2-15 from his two overs.
Sherfane Rutherford continued his recent good form with an 18-ball 40* to help the Desert Vipers record a comfortable six- wicket win over Shimron Hetmyer’s Gulf Giants in International League T20 (ILT20) action at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
Shai Hope and Obed McCoy’s Dubai Capitals handed Sherfane Rutherford’s Desert Vipers their first loss of this season’s International League T20 on Monday.
The Barbados Royals have secured the services of hard-hitting middle order batsman Sherfane Rutherford for the 2025 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL), in a move that will see all-rounder Jason Holder joining the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots.
West Indies middle order batsman Sherfane Rutherford was named in the ESPNCricinfo ODI Team of the Year on Monday.
Rutherford, a nominee for the ICC Male ODI Player of the Year award, is included thanks to 425 runs in seven innings in 2024 at an average of 106.25 including one hundred, a brilliant match-winning hundred against Bangladesh recently, and four fifties.
The Tigers restricted the Jaguars to a modest 130-5 from their 20 overs after winning the toss and electing to field first.
Jatinder Singh led the way for the Jaguars with an unbeaten 57-ball 56 while Ayaan Khan made 26 off 15 balls including two sixes.
Montreal’s bowling effort was led by 17-year-old Aayan Afzal Khan who took 2-21 from his four overs while Andre Russell also bowled well for his 1-24 off four overs.
Player of the Match and player of the series, Sherfane Rutherford, then led the successful chase with a responsible 38* off 29 balls as the Tigers reached 135-5 off 20 overs.
Rutherford’s knock included three fours and two sixes. Captain Chris Lynn also contributed 31 while Russell hit 20* off just six balls including the match-winning six off the final ball with the Tigers needing two to win.
Iftikhar Ahmed tried his best for the Jaguars with 2-8 from his four overs.
Rutherford ended the tournament with 220 runs from eight innings at an average of 44. Barbadian Matthew Forde took 15 wickets to finish as the top wicket-taker.
Chasing a slightly below-par target of 166, the visitors raced away to 57 off just 29 deliveries through their openers Jason Roy and Saud Shakeel.
Both batters made use of the powerplay, notably the Englishman who went hammer and tongs at the Karachi bowlers. However, the partnership was broken off the last ball of the powerplay when Shakeel fell to Hasan Ali. The breakthrough spurred a collapse for the Gladiators as they lost four more wickets for just 32 runs in the next 37 deliveries. Zahid Mahmood's wrist spin proved tricky to handle on a slightly two-paced surface at the National Stadium.
While the leggie picked the big wickets of Rilee Rossouw and Khawaja Nafay, Hasan Ali removed Sarfaraz Ahmed while Shoaib Malik took the big scalp of Roy. From a cozy 57/0, the Gladiators were staring down the barrel at 89/5 in the 14th over. Rutherford, though, showed no signs of panic and got good support from Hosein as the duo went about their work effortlessly. They struck sixes with frequency and then rotated strike to take the game deep. From 66 off 36, it became 45 off 24 and then 25 off 12. Hasan's penultimate over went for just 10 despite a six in it, leaving 15 to get off the final over.
Anwar Ali, playing his first game of the season, couldn't hold his nerve as Rutherford smashed him for sixes off the first two balls to virtually seal the deal. The pacer did drag the game deep to the final ball but couldn't prevent a Gladiators win. There was massive drama off the penultimate ball when Anwar missed an opportunity to run out Rutherford - the all-rounder went all the way to the stumps to whip the bails off when a gentle throw would have caught the West Indian short. It was to be Karachi's final chance of salvaging something from the game as Rutherford had the last laugh off the final ball.
Earlier on, though, Anwar's unbeaten 14-ball 25 is what gave the Kings some respectability to their finish with the bat. James Vince (37 off 25) and Tim Seifert (21 off 11) had gotten the hosts off to a flier after skipper Shan Masood's first-over dismissal, racking up 61 off the powerplay. However, once Gladiators' spin duo of Usman Tariq and Abrar Ahmed got into the act, things changed drastically as the Kings lost wickets at regular intervals. Mohammad Nawaz created some impetus in the middle overs but couldn't convert his starts.
Just when the Kings had gotten themselves to a position for the final assault, they lost wickets in a heap. From a potential total of 180-plus, even 160 looked doubtful before Anwar's flurry in the 20th over gave the Kings something to bowl at. It was a below-par total but they nearly still made a game of it.
Brief scores: Karachi Kings 165/8 in 20 overs (James Vince 37, Mohammad Nawaz 28, Abrar Ahmed 3-31, Usman Tariq 2-16) lost to Quetta Gladiators 169/5 in 20 overs (Sherfane Rutherford 58*, Jason Roy 52, Zahid Mahmood 2-17) by five wickets
Guyanese middle-order batsman Sherfane Rutherford has rejoined the West Indies squad ahead of the final of three One-Day Internationals against England at the Kia Oval on Tuesday.
In a match where the rain threatened to wash away more than just overs, Sherfane Rutherford made sure his impact was anything but temporary.
The Patriots won the toss and elected to field first and a disciplined bowling performance restricted the Tallawahs to 166-8, a total that appeared under par for the track.
In reply, the Patriots proved that assessment to be accurate as they made it four wins from four with another dominant batting display led by the tournament’s top scorer Sherfane Rutherford.
The Tallawahs got their innings off to a lightning start with the hard-hitting duo of Chadwick Walton and Kennar Lewis putting on a blistering partnership of 41 runs inside 3.3 overs.
However, once Paul Van Meekeren dismissed Kennar Lewis that led to a shift in the innings with the Patriots tightening the screws courtesy of some economical bowling by captain DJ Bravo.
Things were to go from bad to worse for the Tallawahs when Walton had to retire hurt, tweaking his hamstring after running a quick single.
It took an enterprising counter-attack by Rovman Powell and Carlos Brathwaite in the back end of the innings to revitalise the Tallawahs and this was further boosted by some late blows by the lower order to ensure they posted a respectable total.
The Patriots made a similar start in their innings, with Evin Lewis bringing the early fireworks, but the wickets of Devon Thomas and Asif Ali in quick succession followed by Evin Lewis left the game in the balance.
If things were finely poised Sherfane Rutherford and Fabian Allen made light work of the equation, a fantastic display of power-hitting saw the pair smash 55 runs from 20 balls to seal the win at a canter.
Scores: St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 169-4 (Rutherford 50*, Lewis 39; Russell 1-31, Powell 1-34) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 166-8 (Brathwaite 27, Walton 26; Bravo 3-25, Van Meekeren 2-27) by six wickets
Sherfane Rutherford again watched from the sidelines asGujarat Titans cruised to a 38-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in a high-scoring Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday.
Sherfane Rutherford's services with the bat were once again surplus to requirements as the Desert Vipers maintained their dominance in the DP World ILT20 with a commanding eight-wicket win over Johnson Charles’ Sharjah Warriorz on Saturday.
Despite half-centuries from the returning Sherfane Rutherford and Gudakesh Motie, England handed the West Indies a comprehensive seven-wicket loss to complete a 3-0 sweep of their One-Day International Series at The Kennington Oval in London on Tuesday.
In the ongoing Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Rutherford has been one of the most outstanding players so far, scoring 201 runs in 7 matches, with an average of 40.20 and a strike rate of 136.73. Speculation had linked the player with a late consideration for a space in the West Indies World Cup squad but, as it has for other players in the recent past, it turns out his fitness level was an issue.
“As well as he has been performing he is one of a few players who did not meet our fitness criteria, so he was not eligible for selection,” Harper told members of the media, in explaining the player’s omission.
Narine, once the top-ranked spinner in the world, has recently shown versatility at the top of the order as a pinch-hitter and could have been a weapon for the team at the tournament.
“Sunil Narine is a great miss for a team like this in a tournament like this. Any team would miss having a bowler of that quality in the team but as I mentioned with Rutherford and some of the others Sunil also did not make our fitness standards,” Harper said.
Based on standards implemented by Cricket West Indies (CWI), in 2019, players must achieve a mark of 40 in the Yo-Yo Endurance Test unless given a medical exemption by the CWI medical committee. Another player that has shown plenty of promise during the CPL campaign, but did also did not meet the fitness standards, was fast bowler Odean Smith.
Sherfane Rutherford’s blazing cameo was not enough to save Gujarat Titans from elimination as they fell 20 runs short against a dominant Mumbai Indians outfit in Friday’s IPL eliminator at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium.
Sherfane Rutherford’s blistering knock gave Gujarat Titans hope, but his performance was not enough to prevent an 11-run loss to Punjab Kings in a high-scoring Indian Premier League (IPL) opener at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
Zalmi won the toss and elected to field first but were left to regret that decision when Quetta openers Ahsan Ali and Will Smeed put on a massive 155-run partnership for the first wicket before Ali was dismissed for 73 in the 16th over.
Smeed, a 20-year-old Englishman, was eventually dismissed for 97, in the final over, to see the Gladiators finish with a formidable 190-4 off their 20 overs.
Smeed’s 97 came off 62 balls with 11 fours and four sixes.
Pakistani Usman Qadir was the best bowler for Zalmi with 2-20 off his four overs.
Openers Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Yasir Khan put on 43 for the first wicket before Khan was dismissed in the fourth over for 30 off 12 balls.
Kohler-Cadmore was next to go for 22 to leave the Zalmi 62-2.
Jamaica Tallawahs batsman Haider Ali also contributed 19 before the chase was spearheaded by Hussain Talat and captain Shoaib Malik with scores of 52 off 29 balls and 48 not out off 32 balls, respectively.
Rutherford also contributed 10 runs off nine balls to put them on the brink of victory, being dismissed in the final over with three runs to win.
Malik then hit the winning runs to close the innings on 191-5.
Mohammed Nawaz took 3-44 from four overs for the Gladiators.
The 2022 PSL started yesterday with the Multan Sultans beating the Karachi Kings by seven wickets.
The Kings, led by the number-one-ranked T20 batsman in the world Babar Azam, won the toss and chose to field.
Peshawar posted 173-4 off their 20 overs thanks to a top score of 52 not out off 28 balls from Captain Shoaib Malik that included five fours and two sixes.
Afghanistan power hitter Hazratullah Zazai contributed a 27-ball 41 at the top of the innings while Rutherford ended not out on nine from four balls with one six.
Umaid Asif was the best bowler for the Kings with 3-36 from four overs.
Despite a well-compiled 90 not out off 63 balls from Azam, the Kings ended agonizingly short of their target finishing 164-6 off their 20 overs.
Babar’s knock included 12 fours and one six while Englishman Ian Cockbain was the next best contributor with 31 from 19 balls.
Mohammad Umar was the pick of the Zalmi bowlers with 3-22 from his four overs.
Peshawar Zalmi are now fourth in the points table with four points while the Karachi Kings have yet to register a point after registering their fourth loss in as many games.
Thanks to a four-wicket haul from Trent Boult and an unbeaten 112-run partnership between Nicholas Pooran and Monank Patel, MI New York kept their Major League Cricket (MLC) playoff hopes alive with a convincing eight-wicket win over the Los Angeles Knight Riders at Broward County Stadium on Thursday.
The Leewards first posted 244-6 from their 50 overs after winning the toss and batting first.
Karima Gore and Jahmar Hamilton both hit 54 to lead the Hurricanes while Hayden Walsh Jr followed up a 60* in their last game with a well-played 49.
The Guyana bowling was led by Romario Shepherd and captain Veerasammy Permaul who each took a pair of wickets.
The Harpy Eagles then needed only 47.3 overs to get their second win of the season on the back of a brilliant 71-ball 105 from Rutherford. His knock included seven fours and eight sixes.
Tevin Imlach (32) and Kevlon Anderson (32) both provided good support for Rutherford.
Kofi James tried his best for the Hurricanes with 3-30 from his ten overs.
