Twenty-Two for Seven: Bas de Leede and David Payne Tear Through Glasgow as Amsterdam Flames Draw Level on 13 Points

For fifteen overs, Glasgow Cosmic had the makings of a total. George Munsey and Liam Livingstone had added 61 for the third wicket, the hundred was up in the fifteenth over, and at 104 for 3 there was every reason to expect something well north of where they finished. They finished on 126. The last seven wickets fell for 22 runs in 30 balls, and Amsterdam Flames, who had won the toss and chosen to field, knocked the runs off with 24 balls remaining.

The five-wicket win on Wednesday at Malahide was Amsterdam's second in two days, after their 59-run defeat of Dublin Guardians on September 15, and it takes them to 13 points — level with Edinburgh Castle Rockers and Rotterdam Dockers. Glasgow stay on four points from ten matches. Bas de Leede took 4 for 6, David Payne took 3 for 27 and the Player of the Match award, and Curtis Campher's 44 from 30 made sure a wobbly start to the chase never became anything more.

Glasgow lost Finn Allen to the fourth ball of the match, caught behind by Scott Edwards off David Payne without scoring, and were 2 for 1. Jason Roy and Munsey added 41 for the second wicket, but Roy's 17 used up 23 balls before Michael Bracewell bowled him at 43 for 2 in the eighth over. The powerplay brought 38 for 1; the fifty took 9.3 overs.

Livingstone gave the innings its pulse. He and Munsey added 61 in 43 balls, and he survived an Amsterdam review at 12.1 when umpire's call kept him in. Munsey reached fifty from 37 balls with four sixes, but added only one more run from his next eight deliveries before Campher had him caught by Steven Smith at 104 for 3.

Munsey's 51 and Livingstone's 44 made 95 of Glasgow's 126. The other nine batters made 27 between them, with four extras, and six of them were out for one or nought.

The slide began one run after Munsey's dismissal. Richie Berrington was given lbw to Aryan Dutt at 105 for 4 in the sixteenth over; Glasgow reviewed, and umpire's call kept the decision standing. Matthew Cross survived an unsuccessful Amsterdam review in the seventeenth over, but made only 1 before de Leede had him caught by Campher.

After 105 for 4, the wickets fell at 117, 119, 119, 122, 126 and 126. Livingstone, the one set batter left, went for 44 when Payne had him caught by Neill, and Payne also removed Michael Leask for a one-ball duck. De Leede, who bowled only at the death, took Cross and Liam Naylor and then finished the innings with the fourth and fifth balls of the final over — Reuben Wilson and Tymal Mills, both caught by Tim David. Four wickets for six runs from eleven balls. Glasgow were bowled out one ball short of their twenty overs, with Ali Khan stranded on 3 not out.

A target of 127 should not trouble a side in Amsterdam's recent form, but the chase opened with a scare. Yuvraaj Samra was caught behind by Cross off Mills for 4 in the first over, and by 4.3 overs Smith (5) and de Leede (11) had followed — Smith caught by Mills off Wilson, de Leede caught behind off Ali Khan. Amsterdam were 27 for 3.

Campher and Bracewell took the sting out of it with 47 for the fourth wicket. The powerplay closed at 46 for 3 and the fifty came up in 6.3 overs. Campher's 44 from 30, with five fours and a six, was the innings of the chase, and Bracewell's 21 from 15 came with four fours. Mills returned to have Campher caught by Munsey and Livingstone had Bracewell caught by Naylor, the two wickets falling at 74 and 96.

Edwards (20 not out from 19) and David (13 not out from 9, with a six) added an unbroken 31 for the sixth wicket from 20 balls, the hundred arriving in 13.5 overs, and the chase ended on 127 for 5 after exactly 16 overs.

De Leede had the eye-catching figures, but Payne's case rests on when his wickets came. He struck with the fourth ball of the match to remove Allen with two runs on the board. He came back to take Livingstone, Glasgow's only remaining set batter once the collapse had started, and then Leask for nought. Three for 27 from a full four overs.

We leaned towards Amsterdam in both previews — firmly in the blog piece, with less certainty on the match page — and Amsterdam won by five wickets with four overs to spare. The call was right. The detail was mixed, and parts of it were wrong.

What held up: the match page named Bas de Leede as Amsterdam's player to watch, and he produced the decisive spell — though with the ball, not the bat the preview was talking about. The blog preview's Glasgow pick, Liam Livingstone, made 44 from 27 and took a wicket for 26 in four overs. And the match page said Glasgow needed two of Livingstone, Finn Allen and George Munsey to convert; two did, with 51 and 44, and Glasgow still made only 126.

What did not: Allen, whom the match page expected to attack from ball one, was out to his first ball. Lungi Ngidi, the centrepiece of the blog preview's powerplay matchup against Yuvraaj Samra, did not play; Samra fell for 4 to Mills. Bracewell, our Amsterdam pick in the blog, bowled well at 4-1-20-1, but his wicket was the opener Roy — it was de Leede and Payne, not Bracewell, who took Glasgow's middle order apart. Ali Khan, the match page's Glasgow pick, dismissed de Leede but went for 31 in three overs.

And the standings. Both previews listed Glasgow sixth. They were fifth, with Dublin Guardians two points below them, and they still are. The match page, dated for match day, also had Amsterdam fourth on nine points — the tally before their win over Dublin on September 15, which took them to 11. Its playoff-stakes note said Amsterdam's September 13 match against Edinburgh would shape their position, while its own subheadline had already reported that result. Those are errors on our part, and we are recording them plainly.

After this match the ETPL table reads: Edinburgh Castle Rockers 13 points from nine matches (NRR +1.378), Amsterdam Flames 13 from ten (+1.037), Rotterdam Dockers 13 from nine (+0.049), Belfast Wolves 11 from nine (+0.608), Glasgow Cosmic 4 from ten (-1.450) and Dublin Guardians 2 from nine (-1.117).

Amsterdam are level on points with Edinburgh and Rotterdam and second of the three on net run rate, but they have played a match more than the three sides around them, and all three of those sides are in action on September 17 at Malahide. Edinburgh Castle Rockers meet Belfast Wolves at 15:00 IST, and Rotterdam Dockers play Dublin Guardians at 18:45 IST. Amsterdam will be watching both. Glasgow, on four points, will look back on a day when Munsey and Livingstone made 95 and the rest of the side made 27.