• BATSMEN
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    6s
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    0.1 bowled'im, first up, what a beauty. Lovely seam position, just short of a length, outside off. Shaw pushes at it, and the ball hits the seam and jags back in to take the inside edge onto the middle stump 0/1
    11.4 and Dhawan perishes trying to force the pace. Looks for the reverse sweep, Iyer stays wide outside off, and the slowness and extra bouncer means he gets a top edge for an easy catch at short third man 95/3
    2.3 and Rahane goes. Playing with fore when you look to slog Archer at this pace. Heavy length, quick, and gets big on him. Goes off the splice of the bat to mid-on 10/2
    15.6 he might have missed out on the lbw earlier, but gets his man now. Wide on the crease, wide length ball, Iyer looks for another six down the ground, but the extra bounce means he holes out to long-off 132/4
    18.6 short ball, a little ball of fire, quick and wide, getting big on him. Stoinis looks for the hook but goes only as far as deep midwicket 153/5
    19.4 slower ball. Smart bowling. Bowl on pace to the Indian batsman, who has faced a lot of you. Go slow to the Australian, who has hardly faced you in the past? Wide length ball, offcutter, mis-hit to long-off 157/6
    19.6 big slower ball, at 99.9ks, wide outside off, and Patel is nowhere near it. Toe-ends this for a catch to short third man 161/7
    not out
    0
    0
    0
    0
    -
    Extras
    10 (lb 2, nb 2, w 6)
    TOTAL
    161/7 (20 Overs, RR: 8.05)
    Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Prithvi Shaw, 0.1 ov), 2-10 (Ajinkya Rahane, 2.3 ov), 3-95 (Shikhar Dhawan, 11.4 ov), 4-132 (Shreyas Iyer, 15.6 ov), 5-153 (Marcus Stoinis, 18.6 ov), 6-157 (Alex Carey, 19.4 ov), 7-161 (Axar Patel, 19.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    JC Archer401934.75140130
    JD Unadkat3032210.6652200
    Kartik Tyagi403017.592110
    BA Stokes202401223002
    S Gopal403117.7541120
    R Tewatia302307.6653000
  • BATSMEN
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    10.2 Deshpande holds his own against a batsman intent on dominating. Stokes jumps out of the crease, and he bowls a slower one at 121ks. He is way early into the shot, and ends up holing out to long-on. Deshpande is over the moon 86/3
    2.6 bowled'im. Nortje has his own back. This is all fast and furious at 155.4ks. Nortje sticks to his (speed) guns, and keeps attacking the stumps with fast bowling. This time Buttler tries the more orthodox shot down the ground, and is beaten by the seam movement to lose his middle stump. Don't hear a pundit criticising him for playing orthodox shot when the unorthodox ones were bringing him the results. That is how they sound when they criticise innovation 37/1
    3.6 lovely bowling. Lovely cricket in these four overs. Hitting, innovation, pace and now guile. Ashwin slows this down by at least 10-12ks, and he bowls it scrambled-seam. Smith is playing for the offbreak, which it looks like, but goes straight on because of the imperfect (if you will) seam position. Leading edge results in an easy catch 40/2
    25
    18
    0
    2
    138.88
    11.4 massive wicket. Axar Patel hits back. Lovely arm ball, quick, 97ks, Samson looks to make room but the ball slides on hit the middle stump. Samson is left anguished as he walks back 97/4
    17.3 lovely bowling. A yorker at the base of middle and leg stump at 149.7ks. After trying the ramp, Uthappa charges at Nortje, and he spears in this massive yorker. This is just too good for Uthappa 135/6
    13.2 Parag is run out. Really slow in the air, Uthappa looks to work this to leg, but because there is on pace to work with, he doesn't get the ball wide enough of Patel. Uthappa charges down the wicket, and then sends Parag back. He has nowhere to go. He can only wish Patel misses, but he takes his time, steadies his aim, and goes for the base of the middle stump 110/5
    not out
    14
    18
    1
    0
    77.77
    18.4 Rabada has delivered what Dhawan asked for. This is nearly a yorker. Quick one. And even though it is not a yorker, there is still not enough room to get under. All he manages to do is scoop it out to point 138/7
    19.6 slower short ball, and Deshpande has his second wicket with an attempted ramp going nowhere 148/8
    Extras
    5 (b 1, nb 1, w 3)
    TOTAL
    148/8 (20 Overs, RR: 7.4)
    Fall of wickets: 1-37 (Jos Buttler, 2.6 ov), 2-40 (Steven Smith, 3.6 ov), 3-86 (Ben Stokes, 10.2 ov), 4-97 (Sanju Samson, 11.4 ov), 5-110 (Riyan Parag, 13.2 ov), 6-135 (Robin Uthappa, 17.3 ov), 7-138 (Jofra Archer, 18.4 ov), 8-148 (Shreyas Gopal, 19.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    K Rabada40281794000
    TU Deshpande403729.2554031
    A Nortje403328.25103200
    R Ashwin401714.25101000
    AR Patel40321882200

Match Notes

RR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st37JC ButtlerBA Stokes
2nd3SPD SmithBA Stokes
3rd46BA StokesSV Samson
4th11RV UthappaSV Samson
5th13RV UthappaR Parag
6th25RV UthappaR Tewatia
7th3R TewatiaJC Archer
8th10S GopalR Tewatia