ABU DHABI – An­dre Rus­sell scored a bound­ary laden cameo, but it was un­able to pre­vent the Abu Dhabi Knight Rid­ers from go­ing down by sev­en wick­ets to the Desert Vipers in the sec­ond match of the In­ter­na­tion­al League T20 com­pe­ti­tion in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Sun­day.

Rus­sell blast­ed 30 from just 14 balls with three six­es and two fours to help an­chor the Knight Rid­ers to 166 for five from 20 overs.

His West In­dies team­mate Kyle May­ers scored just two open­ing the bat­ting, while nei­ther Ja­son Hold­er nor cap­tain Sunil Nar­ine got a chance with the bat.

Dan Lawrence then cracked 70 from 39 balls and Sam Cur­ran scored an un­beat­en even half cen­tu­ry to lift the Vipers to 168 for three off 18.4 overs.

Sher­fane Ruther­ford fin­ished un­beat­en on nine from four balls.

Rus­sell and Nar­ine picked up one wick­et apiece while Hold­er went wick­et­less in his three overs.

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