- BATSMENRB4s6sSR0.1 big drama firstball!. And he's easily out. Theekshana bowls a quick one down the legside, and Avishka Fernando gets bat on that and gets it away. Or so he thinks, and starts taking a run. But the short fine leg fielder swoops on it, and Gurbaz takes the bails off. Fernando has been sent back but is too late 0/10.4 another one gone. Aura's batting aura is kinda getting punctured. Kusal Mendis pulls another quick one from Theekshana, but straight into the hands of deep midwicket 1/27.4 Wellalage's wicket-run continues, and he gets Sadeera bowled off his inside edge. . The batter is down the track playing an unambitious push down the ground (he would have - at best - got one to long on off this). But Wellalage's delivery is quick, and it doesn't turn as much as Sadeera expects. He meets it way outside off stump and well outside the crease, but it takes his inside edge and ricochets into the off stump. Wellalage had bowled that from quite wide of the crease 52/314.2 Malik strikes again, and it's the big one of Perera! Nothing special here from Malik really, just a standard length ball on the stumps. Perera goes towards the offside and looks to reverse sweep this, but misses completely. Leg stump is rocked. 85/610.3 Stumps are rattled! Wily bowling from the veteran, holds this back as his sees DDS coming down the track. He's nowhere near the pitch of it and ends up playing all around it as it goes right through bat and pad on to the stumps 69/412.4 Great work in the outfield! This was worked to long-on and Ross turns back and runs to the non-striker's end for a tight second. It's a fantastic flat throw though by Wellalage and Malik wastes little time in taking off the bails. Ross is well short! 79/517.4 Muscled down the ground, but not timed! This was a good length on the stumps, 134kph, but it skids through and Liyanage leans back and ends up slicing this to long-off who rushes in 107/719.4 Ali looks to go big, but just can't get enough! This was pace-on outside off, and Ali times it quite well, but not enough elevation as David Miller holds on well at long-off 126/8Extras8 (lb 1, w 7)TOTAL134/8 (20 Overs, RR: 6.7)Did not bat: B FernandoFall of wickets: 1-0 (Avishka Fernando, 0.1 ov), 2-1 (Kusal Mendis, 0.4 ov), 3-52 (Sadeera Samarawickrama, 7.4 ov), 4-69 (Dhananjaya de Silva, 10.3 ov), 5-79 (Alex Ross, 12.4 ov), 6-85 (Kusal Perera, 14.2 ov), 7-107 (Janith Liyanage, 17.4 ov), 8-126 (Hasan Ali, 19.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB M Theekshana 4 0 26 1 6.50 8 2 0 2 0 N Thushara 4 0 26 2 6.50 11 1 1 2 0 D Madushanka 3 0 22 0 7.33 8 3 0 1 0 V Viyaskanth 2 0 18 0 9.00 1 0 1 0 0 DN Wellalage 3 0 28 1 9.33 3 3 0 0 0 Shoaib Malik 4 0 13 2 3.25 11 0 0 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR3.6 spectacular relaty catch and Aura are flying! They're gonna check this, but I suspect it's beautifully executed by the fielders at deep square leg and deep midwicket. Noor Ahmad did all the hard work. He was running back from deep square leg. He took the catch a couple of steps inside the rope and back-handed it to Dhananjaya de Silva, who barely had to move to accept this offering. Ahmad had got rid of it before he went over the rope. DDS made no mistake. It had been a flick off the pads, but one that came off the inside half of his bat, that caused Gurbaz's ending. Jaffna Kings in serious trouble 10/31.6 doesn't matter much though. He's definitely out now! Caught at deep third, off a fullish delivery he tries to short-arm-whip over the legside without much foot movement. Only ends up getting a leading edge to it, which flies to the deep third fielder, who has to make a bit of ground to get under it. Hasan gets reward for a good over 7/12.5 top edge and that's been snaffled! What a start Aura have made to this defense. Hridoy facing his first ball, shuffles out of the crease and tries to launch this over deep midwicket. But gets a big top-edged to it, not accounting for the bounce Binura Fernando tends to get. And the deep square leg fielder runs in and gets safely under it, with a dive. 8/26.1 Gets a wicket first ball! Aura's seamers absolutely rocking this.Did tis stick in the pitch? This is length outside off. Kind of an unremarkable delivery, to be fair. But Miller has poked that straight back to the bowler who takes it at thigh-height. 27/412.1 And he breaks the stand! Hasan is pumped! This was just short of a good length, angled in towards off. Wellalage makes room and looks to swat this through the offside, but he's beaten for pace as the ball crashes into the top of off 66/513.1 Yes they will, but Perera only finds the man! Great captaincy to bring back Noor at such a pivotal point. They felt Jaffna would want to go after him and so it proved, but this was the leg break tossed up outside off. Thisara goes hard at it but only manages to slice it towards extra cover who takes good catch on the run 69/614.4 What a throw and he is a goner! Outstanding from DDS! This was worked towards Dhananjaya at deep square leg, and they go for a very very tight second. But even then only a direct hit would, but Dhananjaya rifles in a throw from almost square on to throw down the stumps and have Viyaskanth short by several feet 72/7Extras12 (w 12)TOTAL125/7 (20 Overs, RR: 6.25)Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Charith Asalanka, 1.6 ov), 2-8 (Towhid Hridoy, 2.5 ov), 3-10 (Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 3.6 ov), 4-27 (David Miller, 6.1 ov), 5-66 (Dunith Wellalage, 12.1 ov), 6-69 (Thisara Perera, 13.1 ov), 7-72 (Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, 14.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB B Fernando 4 0 8 1 2.00 17 0 0 0 0 Hasan Ali 4 0 20 3 5.00 16 2 1 1 0 Noor Ahmad 4 0 46 1 11.50 13 3 3 6 0 H Kerr 4 0 21 1 5.25 12 3 0 0 0 DM de Silva 4 0 30 0 7.50 6 0 2 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Jaffna Kings , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
07 August 2023 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Dambulla Aura 2, Jaffna Kings 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 39 runs, 2 wickets)
- Over 3.4: Review by Jaffna Kings (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - RSA Palliyaguruge, Batter - S Samarawickrama (Struck down)
- Dambulla Aura: 50 runs in 7.2 overs (44 balls), Extras 2
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 40 balls (S Samarawickrama 29, MDKJ Perera 19, Ex 2)
- Strategic Timeout: Dambulla Aura - 58/3 in 9.0 overs (MDKJ Perera 23, DM de Silva 3)
- Strategic Timeout: Dambulla Aura - 84/5 in 14.0 overs (MDKJ Perera 41, J Liyanage 2)
- Dambulla Aura: 100 runs in 16.3 overs (99 balls), Extras 2
- Innings Break: Dambulla Aura - 134/8 in 20.0 overs (H Kerr 25, Noor Ahmad 7)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 27 runs, 3 wickets)
- Over 1.5: Review by Jaffna Kings (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - RSA Palliyaguruge, Batter - KIC Asalanka (Upheld)
- Noor Ahmed assisted the catch of Rahmanullah Gurbaz to DM de Silva
- Strategic Timeout: Jaffna Kings - 27/4 in 6.1 overs (Shoaib Malik 9)
- Jaffna Kings: 50 runs in 9.3 overs (57 balls), Extras 8
- Over 10.4: Review by Dambulla Aura (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - IC Soysa, Batter - DN Wellalage (Struck down)
- Strategic Timeout: Jaffna Kings - 82/7 in 16.0 overs (Shoaib Malik 40, M Theekshana 2)
- Shoaib Malik: 50 off 44 balls (4 x 4, 3 x 6)
- Jaffna Kings: 100 runs in 18.6 overs (114 balls), Extras 10
- 8th Wicket: 50 runs in 32 balls (Shoaib Malik 42, M Theekshana 9, Ex 2)