Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
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    1.3 Incredible from Shanaka! The previous two were warning shots, but this one was bang on. Pitches on leg and seams away - gentle pace truth be told - to beat the edge and clip the bails off from off stump. Hermann just simply playing down the wrong line 9/1
    19.1 Oh what's happened there?! Brain fade from Mendis and he's lost his wicket. Goes for an outstanding 79 off 53. This was a low full toss around off, drilled to mid-off. Shanaka picks up and throws down the stumps at the non-striker's end, but Kusal has just meandered across. Not even in the frame when the wickets are broken 186/6
    4.3 Nawaz strikes in his first over! Another one that just sticks in the surface, pitches on off and straightens down the line. Sadeera goes for the pull but is all odds and ends as he ends up top edging this. Well taken by a backpedaling backward square leg 43/2
    5.5 Scythes through him! and gets his man! This was a length ball, 142kph, and carries on with the angle - perhaps some seam movement back in. Goes right between bat and pad as Kamindu is caught in the crease. They go up for a caught behind, but the umpire says no. This time though the review is a good one. Clear spike as the ball passes the bat, a faint noise too. Colombo have lost three in the powerplay 65/3
    16.2 Breaks the stand! Full and straight, this was a yorker length and reversing back in quickly. McDermott stays camped on the back foot as he looks to drill this hard down the ground. Misses completely and reviews the lbw call, more in instinct than any real hope. He's walked halfway back by the time ball tracking confirms the bad news. Great knock comes to an end 162/4
    17.2 Chipped straight to midwicket! Back of a length on the stumps, 138kph. Liyanage looks to make a little room and whip this over the fielder in the ring but he's rushed a bit and ends up offering a very simple catch 167/5
    not out
    12
    8
    16
    2
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    150
    19.5 Another one falls! Short and quick as Tharupathi is rushed on the hook. Top edge and easily tracked and taken by the keeper. Three runs and two wickets in the over so far 189/7
    19.6 Another top edge and Akif has four! Hard length and quick as Wanuja slices this high to point. Colombo finish on 189 for 8 189/8
    Extras
    9 (lb 3, w 6)
    TOTAL
    189/8 (20 Overs, RR: 9.45)
    Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Rubin Hermann, 1.3 ov), 2-43 (Sadeera Samarawickrama, 4.3 ov), 3-65 (Kamindu Mendis, 5.5 ov), 4-162 (Ben McDermott, 16.2 ov), 5-167 (Janith Liyanage, 17.2 ov), 6-186 (Kusal Mendis, 19.1 ov), 7-189 (Malsha Tharupathi, 19.5 ov), 8-189 (Wanuja Sahan, 19.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    C Karunaratne2025012.544100
    MD Shanaka21161880210
    Mohammad Nawaz(3)403919.7563200
    Akif Javed4040410120410
    V Viyaskanth40240682000
    E Malinga4042110.575200
  • BATSMEN
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    14.5 But Wanuja gets his man in the end! This time dragged the length back as it stuck in the surface. Harper looks to take on the pull, but there's no pace on the ball. Ends up getting more height than distance as Neesham holds on safely at deep midwicket 134/4
    2.3 Mahmud has the last laugh! Drags the length back wide of off, and gets some extra bounce and carry. That's what does Croospulle in, as he looks for the cut but only manages a thick edge through to the keeper 23/1
    5.1 Straight to backward square leg! This was pushed through flat outside off as Mehidy premeditates this sweep. Lunges across and connects well but doesn't keep it down, and can't beat the man in the ring either. Deserved wicket for Wanuja after a tidy first over 50/2
    13.5 There's the breakthrough the Kaps desperately needed! This was short and the cutter, Asalanka goes for the pull but only manages a top edge as Neesham settles under it at deep square leg and makes no mistake 122/3
    not out
    38
    16
    39
    7
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    237.5
    17.2 There's life in this game yet! Neesham has done Shanaka in with a beaut! Good length leg cutter, pitches on off and straightens. It's bamboozled Shanaka, who pushes at it too early and is beaten on the outside edge. Off stump is disturbed, and the only man more surprised than Shanaka is Neesham himself, who covers his mouth in disbelief at the quality of that delivery 163/5
    not out
    16
    8
    10
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    2
    200
    Extras
    6 (lb 3, nb 1, w 2)
    TOTAL
    191/5 (19.2 Overs, RR: 9.87)
    Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Lasith Croospulle, 2.3 ov), 2-50 (Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 5.1 ov), 3-122 (Charith Asalanka, 13.5 ov), 4-134 (Sam Harper, 14.5 ov), 5-163 (Dasun Shanaka, 17.2 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    J Liyanage1080821000
    B Fernando4054013.537210
    Hasan Mahmud2.2031213.2834101
    W Sahan301926.3381110
    JDS Neesham302618.6663100
    Mujeeb Ur Rahman403007.562100
    M Tharupathi202001011100

Match Notes

Gallants 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st23SB HarperL Croospulle
2nd27Mehidy Hasan MirazSB Harper
3rd72SB HarperKIC Asalanka
4th12SSD ArachchigeSB Harper
5th29MD ShanakaSSD Arachchige
6th28Mohammad Nawaz (3)SSD Arachchige