Gladiators captain Shaid Afridi won the toss and chose to ball first
In the first innings Tuskers did not have the expected opening partnership Gurbaz get caught in the 3rd over. But Kusal Mendis and Kusal Janith put up a solid partnership to consolidate the loss.
Once Skipper find his way to pavilion in the 10th over while Mendis scored a 49 runs in 30 balls with 2 fours and 4 massive sixers.
Further, Branden Tailor scores optimistic 51 runs in 37 balls not out in the middle overs and stayed still the innings end.
At last Tuskers innings ended up at the score of 196/5 in 20 overs.
In the chase Gladiators lose wickets in interviews and made the path easy to Tuskers take control over the game.
Dhanushka Gunathilake is the only batsman that stand tall and fought back without any support from the others. Gunathilake scored a magnificent fifty in 31 balls. At last Gunathilake run out by the Gunaratne for 82 runs kn 53 balls (13 fours and a Six)
Captain Afridi went for the duck in the first ball of he faced from the Seekuge Prasanna caught by Kusal Mendis.
Gladiators only able to score 171/7 in 20 overs and Tuskers won the match by 25 runs
Moreover, Kusal Janith went out of the field for a injury and Kusal Mendis were the captaining the Tuskers in the defending.
Branden Tylor became the man of the match for his not out 51 runs in 35 balls