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    9.6 Holes out to long on. Chameera has been expensive, but he has been taking wickets. This was a length ball, a slower one, I think. Just outside off stump. Harper gets the front leg out of the way and tries to clobber it over long on for six, but he doesn't make a good enough connection. The fielder at the boundary barely has to move and takes a comfortable catch. 108/3
    3.3 Chameera gets him eventually! This was a 142kph length ball that Nurul tried to loft over mid on. But he can't time it, and holes out to the fielder there, who takes it at chest height, backpedaling slightly. Useful innings though! 40/1
    9.2 sliced in the air to backward point! This is another slower one, pitching on a length on off stump. Asalanka backs away tries to carve it over the offside, but he gets the timing wrong. Simple catch in the end. He's played a nice little innings, however. 99/2
    15.2 Can't do it twice, though. Chameera keeps striking even though he's going for runs. This was a fast yorker coming in at the base of off stump .Sahan tried to hit it over his other shoulder, but that's much too fast for that shot. The stumps light up and Chameera has four! 164/4
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    34
    34
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    211.76
    15.3 is that a fifth? SHanaka is the new batter, and Chameera thinks he's got a tickle on this length ball outside off stump. Chandimal reviews! It's very close to the outside edge, and Shanaka also has a glance behind. Snicko suggests there is a feather edge. Shanaka will have to go. Chameera has one of the more crazy five-wicket hauls of his career. At the moment, he has given away 43 runs off 15 legal deliveries, but off five of those deliveries, he has got wickets, which means that he's given away 43 off the 10 remaining balls. 164/5
    17.4 Full toss hits the top of off! That was a slower ball too. Perhaps Nawaz was beaten by the lack of pace. There wasn't much to be wary of with this delivery. It was a well-disguised slower one, but the bowler had got the length wrong. Nawaz was still beaten by it, however. He tried to steer that behind square and missed. 175/6
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    12
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    66.66
    Extras
    14 (lb 1, nb 1, w 12)
    TOTAL
    220/6 (20 Overs, RR: 11)
    Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Nurul Hasan, 3.3 ov), 2-99 (Charith Asalanka, 9.2 ov), 3-108 (Sam Harper, 9.6 ov), 4-164 (Sahan Arachchige, 15.2 ov), 5-164 (Dasun Shanaka, 15.3 ov), 6-175 (Mohammad Nawaz, 17.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    V Lahiru20140730100
    Gulbadin Naib202401255001
    M Theekshana40320842110
    PVD Chameera4055513.7584440
    Mohammad Wasim(1)406011554430
    MJ Ackerman403408.553100
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    4.4 Tossed up nicely on the stumps. Dickwella sweeps aerially and finds backwards square leg. The missed run out doesn't end up hurting Gallants. This was beautifully flighted, and it's in the air that Nawaz beat the batter. Dickwella went for a hard flat sweep, but it dipped and bounced on him, and the top edge flew straight to the fielder, who took it at chest height. 50/2
    3.6 Slower one, almost a yorker again. Farhan waits for it and knocks it to mid on, then runs a fast single. Wait. Hang on. Farhan has in fact been run out. The umpire had called an over, but upon seeing the replay on the giant screen had asked for a third umpire review. The under arm throw from mid on had hit the stumps directly, and Farhan is short by a few centimetres. The correct decision was taken in the end, despite the process being a bit muddled. 49/1
    9.3 slips one through the defenses of Hendricks. This was a slider, pitching on off stump, straightening slightly but rushing on with the arm. It takes a deflection off Hendricks's back pad and clatters into leg stump. Sixers are falling apart here. 72/4
    5.2 Another one falls! Shanaka holds a tough catch over his head, pedaling back from mid-off. Eshan Malinga deserves this wicket, though. That was a slower length ball outside off-stump that Pavan tried to thwack over mid-off, but he doesn't get a good connection, and Shanaka gets under it nicely. 51/3
    11.2 Big sweep but top-edged to short fine leg. This was an aggressive shot from a batter who knows his team's got to get moving, but Colombage has beaten him in the air, pitching outside leg and spinning it sharply back in towards the line of the stumps. The fielder at short fine had to back pedal slightly, but he was pretty comfortable in the end. 89/5
    13.1 caught at long off! The Sixers slide continues, and Colombage gets another, well-deserved wicket. This is tossed up on leg stump with lots of revs. Gulbadin comes down the track and tries to blast it into the sightscreen, but the turn means that it hits the outside half of his bat and floats to the long on fielder, who doesn't have to move far to complete this catch. 98/6
    16.3 Scoops this high into the air behind the keeper, but he's got too far underneath that. Short fine leg runs around and completes a comfortable catch. That hung for a long time. Ackerman has played a fighting innings, but the match situation needed a miracle. 134/7
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    177.27
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    16
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    133.33
    Extras
    15 (b 3, lb 2, nb 4, w 6)
    TOTAL
    176/7 (20 Overs, RR: 8.8)
    Fall of wickets: 1-49 (Sahibzada Farhan, 3.6 ov), 2-50 (Niroshan Dickwella, 4.4 ov), 3-51 (Pavan Rathnayake, 5.2 ov), 4-72 (Reeza Hendricks, 9.3 ov), 5-89 (Dinesh Chandimal, 11.2 ov), 6-98 (Gulbadin Naib, 13.1 ov), 7-134 (Marques Ackerman, 16.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    MD Shanaka101801824020
    KTH Ratnayake4045011.2558020
    Akif Javed4040110114213
    E Malinga413218104100
    Mohammad Nawaz(3)2061360000
    S Colombage401734.2590010
    C Karunaratne101301310101

Match Details

Toss

Galle Gallants , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.20, Second Session 21.20-22.50

Match days

26 July 2026 - night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Galle Gallants 2, Dambulla Sixers 0

Match Notes

Sixers 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st49N DickwellaSahibzada Farhan
2nd1RR HendricksN Dickwella
3rd1RR HendricksP Rathnayake
4th21RR HendricksLD Chandimal
5th17LD ChandimalGulbadin Naib
6th9Gulbadin NaibMJ Ackerman
7th36MJ AckermanRTM Mendis
8th42RTM MendisM Theekshana