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Team Abu Dhabi: Riding on quick-fire knocks by Andre Fletcher, Nicholas Pooran and Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Deccan Gladiators trounced struggling Team Abu Dhabi by 63 runs in the 12th match of the Abu Dhabi T10 at the Zayed Cricket Stadium here on Saturday.

Andre Fletcher top-scored with 41, Pooran 30 and Kohler-Cadmore 35 as Gladiators posted 141 for 6 in 10 overs.

Team Abu Dhabi could muster only 78 for 5 in 10 overs and crashed to their fourth defeat in four matches. Leus du Plooy (25) and Colin Ingram (19) put on a 41-run partnership for the fourth wicket to give their total some respectability.