Get Ball by Ball Commentary of Dambulla Sixers vs Galle Gallants, Lanka Premier League 2026, 14th Match

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20 | 15 Runs | DAT: 176/7 (45 runs required, RR: 8.80)

Maheesh Theekshana16 (12b)
Ramesh Mendis39 (22b)

Eshan Malinga4-1-32-1
Akif Javed4-0-40-1

It was Galle's batting that really did the legwork on this win, although their bowling was pretty good on a good batting track too. Chamika Karunaratne was outstanding with the bat crashing 72 not out of 34 balls. He had been set up nicely by the four batters above him, however: Sam Harper, Nurul Hasan, Charith Asalanka, and Sahan Arachchige had all played important innings as well. Once they got to 220 for 6, they were always going to be difficult to take down.

Sixers made a good start to the chase through Niroshan Dickwella primarily. But once the wickets started to fall, they collapsed quickly and did not mount a serious challenge outside the power play.

Sixers stay low in the table, and Gallants are in the lead going into the Kandy leg of this tournament.

That's it from us at Cricinfo for this match. Catch us again on Tuesday for more LPL coverage.

19.6

Malinga to Theekshana, 2 runs, A top edge into the offside infield, and as the fielder can't quite close the gap and get to the ball, Sixers can take two to finish their innings. They have fallen very short, however, and Galle Gallants go clear at the top of the table with eight points.

19.5

Malinga to Theekshana, FOUR, Uff. Where is this coming from? This is full, almost a yorker, on the stumps. Theekshana backs away and drills it past cover, hitting it very sweetly to send the ball scorching to the rope.

19.4

Malinga to Theekshana, FOUR, Kavs is behind square on the offside now. This was a 139 km/h delivery pitched full and wide off. Theekshana stands tall and slices that over backward point for one-bounce, four.

19.3

Malinga to Theekshana, FOUR, Slower yorker on the stumps. Theekshana picks it, waits for it, and bashes it down the ground all along the carpet for four. That was a front-of-hand off cutter, but Theekshana was wise to it.

19.2

Malinga to Theekshana, no run, Yorker looking for the base of the middle stump. Theekshana backs away and tries to hit through the offside but mis-hits it back to the bowler.

Sixers INNINGS		R	B
N Dickwella	caught	32	19
Sahibzada Farhan	run out	11	8
RR Hendricks	bowled	9	15
P Rathnayake	caught	1	4
LD Chandimal	caught	15	17
Gulbadin Naib	caught	15	13
MJ Ackerman	caught	23	14
RTM Mendis	not out	39	22
M Theekshana	not out	16	12
V Lahiru
PVD Chameera
EXTRAS	(b 3, lb 2, w 6, nb 4)
TOTAL	176 (7 wkts; 20 ovs)

Gallants BOWLING	O	M	R	W	Econ
MD Shanaka	1.0	0	18	0	18	(2w)
KTH Ratnayake	4.0	0	45	0	11.25	(2w)
Akif Javed	4.0	0	40	1	10	(3nb, 1w)
E Malinga	4.0	1	32	1	8
Mohammad Nawaz (3)	2.0	0	6	1	3
S Colombage	4.0	0	17	3	4.25	(1w)
C Karunaratne	1.0	0	13	0	13	(1nb)

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	49	N Dickwella	Sahibzada Farhan
2nd	1	RR Hendricks	N Dickwella
3rd	1	RR Hendricks	P Rathnayake
4th	21	RR Hendricks	LD Chandimal
5th	17	LD Chandimal	Gulbadin Naib
6th	9	Gulbadin Naib	MJ Ackerman
7th	36	MJ Ackerman	RTM Mendis
8th	42	RTM Mendis	M Theekshana

Team	M	W	L	PT	NRR
JK	8	5	2	11	0.385
GAG	8	5	3	10	0.604
CLK	8	4	4	8	0.108
KAR	8	3	5	6	-0.567
DAT	8	2	5	5	-0.565

END OF OVER:20 | 15 Runs | DAT: 176/7 (45 runs required, RR: 8.80)

END OF OVER:
20 | 15 Runs | DAT: 176/7 (45 runs required, RR: 8.80)