- BATSMENRB4s6sSR0.1 gone first ball! And a typical Rajitha dismissal. This is a length ball outside off stump, and Rajitha gets it to seam back in slightly, which means Croospulle plays down the wrong line, and gets a thick inside edge that ricochets into the stumps. Aura desperately need some impetus in this campaign, but Croospulle won't provide it today 0/10.5 that looks plumb unless there's bat involved. Full on the stumps - yorker on the toes - and it looks headed to the stumps, as Daniel tries to flick it to leg and misses. It's straightening through the air, and looks to be hitting Daniel around middle and off. The umpire gives it out, but there's a review. It's hitting middle and leg according to ball tracker. Always looked out. 6/24.4 The fifth falls! Aura just not playing smart here. And Rajitha can't stop making the breakthroughs. This is shortish and wide, and Cox tries to smash this square. Only gets a thick top edge that flies to a backpedaling third man, who does nicely to stop just inside the rope. 51/51.5 oh no! Aura sink deeper. This is fullish outside off, but not particularly wide. Rajapaksa tries to flay this over cover but doesn't get the elevation, and gives a straightforward head-high catch to the fielder there instead. That came off the middle, but it needed to have height. 11/32.3 the wickets keep falling! That's the best ball of the innings so far, imo. Only the very best would have kept that out. This is length, pitching outside off, jagging in off the seam, and hitting the top of off. Abell leaves a gap between bat and pad, and Rajitha storms through. What a horror start for Aura, who now need a huuuuge middle order recovery. 16/45.2 Oh my. Shanaka out too. And that's just bad batting, you have to say. It was a half-tracker, asking to be hit. But instead of striking it flat and hard, which might have been a fairly straight forward assignment, he tries to smash it out of the island, and ends up middling it hiiiiigh into the air, towards deep midwicket, where the fielder has plenty of time to get under the chance and swallow it. 53/65.5 down the track and oh my god Dambulla are sinking fast here. Navod Paranavithana at mid on takes an excelleng low catch. Noor Ahmad was trying to hit this ball aerially down the ground, but like several teammates before him, doesn't get the connection he's after. It goes to the left of Paranavithana, who darts quickly to his left, dives, and takes it centimetres before it hits the ground. Aura are seven down inside the powerplay. 54/711.4 tossed up on the stumps, makes room and slices it away square on the offside and they call two early. But there wasn't a second run there! Chaturanga de Silva is caught out by a good through, a few inches short of his crease. More pain for Aura - their last recognised batter now out. 79/96.6 Rajitha gets FIVE!. He's bowled nicely, and he's kept seaming it. This is full, slightly overpitched, on the stumps. Meekeren tries to flick to leg but does so aerially, and it's a pretty straightforward overhead catch for Ravi Bopara at short midwicket in the end. Aura are drowning. 55/813.5 that's it. That's the show. Kumara spots a length ball on the stumps, tries to hammer it over leg, it misses, and it clips the top of his stumps. Aura are all out for 89 in the 14th over. 89/10Extras12 (lb 4, w 8)TOTAL89 all out (13.5 Overs, RR: 6.43)Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Lasith Croospulle, 0.1 ov), 2-6 (Shevon Daniel, 0.5 ov), 3-11 (Bhanuka Rajapaksa, 1.5 ov), 4-16 (Tom Abell, 2.3 ov), 5-51 (Jordan Cox, 4.4 ov), 6-53 (Dasun Shanaka, 5.2 ov), 7-54 (Noor Ahmad, 5.5 ov), 8-55 (Paul van Meekeren, 6.6 ov), 9-79 (Chaturanga de Silva, 11.4 ov), 10-89 (Lahiru Kumara, 13.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB CAK Rajitha 4 0 22 5 5.50 15 2 1 1 0 RAS Lakmal 3 0 33 1 11.00 6 3 1 2 0 JDF Vandersay 4 0 10 2 2.50 17 1 0 0 0 Karim Janat 2.5 0 20 1 7.05 8 3 0 1 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR0.1 Wowza! Well serves me right for getting ahead of myself! The absolute perfect inswinger from Madushan, who bananas this back in towards Dickwella on middle and leg, almost on yorker length, and just plows right through to knock back middle. 0/1Extras1 (w 1)TOTAL90/1 (11.3 Overs, RR: 7.82)Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Niroshan Dickwella, 0.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Pramod Madushan 2 1 3 1 1.50 10 0 0 0 0 PA van Meekeren 2 0 24 0 12.00 4 2 2 0 0 Noor Ahmad 3.3 0 25 0 7.14 9 1 1 1 0 CBRLS Kumara 3 0 27 0 9.00 8 5 0 0 0 PC de Silva 1 0 11 0 11.00 1 0 1 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Colombo Stars , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
14 December 2022 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Colombo Stars 2, Dambulla Aura 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 54 runs, 7 wickets)
- Over 0.5: Review by Dambulla Aura (Batting), Umpire - LE Hannibal, Batter - S Daniel (Struck down)
- Dambulla Aura: 50 runs in 4.1 overs (25 balls), Extras 11
- Strategic Timeout: Dambulla Aura - 66/8 in 9.0 overs (PC de Silva 9, Pramod Madushan 3)
- Over 9.6: Review by Colombo Stars (Bowling), Umpire - LE Hannibal, Batter - PC de Silva (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- Innings Break: Dambulla Aura - 89/10 in 13.5 overs (Pramod Madushan 23)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 46 runs, 1 wicket)
- Colombo Stars: 50 runs in 6.5 overs (41 balls), Extras 1
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 40 balls (LD Chandimal 18, KIC Asalanka 31, Ex 1)
- Strategic Timeout: Colombo Stars - 58/1 in 9.0 overs (LD Chandimal 23, KIC Asalanka 34)
- KIC Asalanka: 50 off 31 balls (5 x 4, 3 x 6)
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