Jaffna Kings Vs Galle Gladiators Match 17 13 August 2023

17th T20 • Colombo

89 (20)

90/3 (13.3)

GM won by 7 wickets

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Playing XI

Player of the Match Kasun Rajitha

4/20

Galle Titans

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Jaffna Kings

89/10 (20)

Batters

Nishan Madushka

66.67

c S de Livera b K Rajitha

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

0.00

c CJ Bowes b K Rajitha

Chris Lynn

100.00

b L Kumara

Dunith Wellalage

70.97

c S de Livera b T Shamsi

Shoaib Malik

0.00

b K Rajitha

David Miller

83.33

c & b K Rajitha

Asela Gunaratne

87.50

lbw b S Al Hasan

Thisara Perera

(C)

144.44

b T Shamsi

Maheesh Theekshana

56.52

Not out

Dilshan Madushanka

41.38

b L Kumara

Nuwan Thushara

233.33

runout (SMLD Samarakoon / K Rajitha)

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 3)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 4.45)

89/10

Bowlers

EXT

5.00

3.25

8.00

3.25

4.75

3.00

9.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

c CJ Bowes b K Rajitha

1-1

0.3

Chris Lynn

b L Kumara

2-7

1.2

Nishan Madushka

c S de Livera b K Rajitha

3-7

2.1

Shoaib Malik

b K Rajitha

4-7

2.3

David Miller

c & b K Rajitha

5-21

4.2

Asela Gunaratne

lbw b S Al Hasan

6-38

6.6

Thisara Perera

b T Shamsi

7-55

9.4

Dunith Wellalage

c S de Livera b T Shamsi

8-56

11.3

Dilshan Madushanka

b L Kumara

9-80

18.6

Nuwan Thushara

runout (SMLD Samarakoon / K Rajitha)

10-89

19.6

Galle Titans

90/3 (13.3)

Batters

Bhanuka Rajapaksa

136.36

c S Malik b M Theekshana

Tim Seifert

130.95

c T Perera b D Madushanka

Chad Bowes

56.52

Not out

Shakib Al Hasan

50.00

c D Miller b S Malik

Dasun Shanaka *

(C)

200.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 2)

TOTAL

(13.3 Ov, RR: 6.67)

90/3

Did not Bat

Sohan de Livera, Lahiru Samarakoon, Kasun Rajitha, Lahiru Kumara, Seekkuge Prasanna, Tabraiz Shamsi

Bowlers

EXT

7.00

3.00

9.50

9.00

0.3

4.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Bhanuka Rajapaksa

c S Malik b M Theekshana

1-34

4.3

Tim Seifert

c T Perera b D Madushanka

2-85

12.3

Shakib Al Hasan

c D Miller b S Malik

3-88

13.2

Match Info

Date & Time

13 Aug, 03:00 PM IST

Venue

R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo

Match

17th T20,

Lanka Premier League

Umpires

Sri Lanka Raveendra Wimalasiri (Sri Lanka), Ravindra Kottahachchi (Sri Lanka), Lyndon Hannibal (Sri Lanka, TV)

Referee

Graeme Labrooy (Sri Lanka)

Toss

Jaffna Kings elected to bat

1wd 1 2 2 1 0 0

Over 11

Runs: 7

0 4 1 1 2 1wd 4

Over 12

Runs: 13

0 1 W 1 1 1

Over 13

Runs: 4

0 W 2

Over 14

Runs: 2

All Overs

Player of the Match Kasun Rajitha

4/20

Commentary

That's it for that match, folks! Jaffna Kings's league stage is over and they can just wait and watch now. Galle finally collected a win after four straight losses and have another game to go now. They are slightly behind the NRR to make top-four but a win will get them there easily. Hope you enjoyed our coverage. This is Rudransh and Bidipto signing off for Sportskeeda!

Dasun Shanaka (Galle Titans captain): Much needed victory. Credit should go to Kasun. He had Lahiru bowled very well. Once Kasun got going, everyone else got going. Wickets have been playing differently. It's good to see everyone scoring high runs so it will be better if we get good wickets. One game at time for now. We had clear plans coming into this game against Jaffna's happy lineup and we'll do the same. We talked about NRR but sometimes it can't happen.

Thisara Perera (Jaffna Kings captain): (On what went wrong) I don't think that the wicket was much of a problem. We needed 150 runs on the board but unfortunately, we could not get things going. The first six overs were disappointing for us with the bat time and again and that cost us. Let's see what happens with other results now.

Kasun Rajitha is our Player of the Match! Here is what he has to say.

Kasun Rajitha: (On what was his game-plan today) My focus is the hit the right length and bowl the right line. The new ball did swing and I enjoyed the movement up front. (On the wicket he enjoyed the most) Shoaib Malik's wicket was the best, as far as I'm concerned.

It is time for the post-match presentation!

That's it! End of the match! Galle Titans win the must-win game by seven wickets!

Tim Seifert 55 (42) | Kasun Rajitha (4/20)
Dunith Wellalage 22 (31) | Shoaib Malik (1/2)

A clinical performance from the Titans, one that might surprise many. Kings would be very, very disappointed because it's their batting that lost them the game and they chose to bat first. 90 was always going to be an easy target and the Titans made sure they didn't put a foot wrong in the chase.

Seifert and Rajapaksa treaded carefully in the first two overs, with the second being bowled by Theekshana. Rajapaksa got his eye in and went against Thushar in the third, providing the team with the much needed momentum. Theekshana had a change of ends and out-foxed Rajapaksa immediately but that was the only five minute period when the Kings looked in the game.

Bowes came in and shut shop, while Seifert ran twos from the other end beautifully while also picking the occasional boundary. He fell soon after his fifty but the job was done. Shakib came and went too but Shanaka smacked his first ball to mid wicket to finish the game off.

13.3 Shoaib Malik to Dasun Shanaka, AND THAT WILL BE THE VICTORY TO THE TITANS! Good length ball on middle-stump. This held in the surface a touch but Shanaka went through with the hoick off the front foot. The ball landed between deep mid-wicket and long-on and there was enough time for the batters to come back for two!

Dasun Shanaka, RHB, comes to the crease

13.2 Shoaib Malik to Shakib Al Hasan, WICKET! Good length slower ball on off-stump. Shakib made room to go over long-off but all he could manage in the end was a top-handed lofted drive to the left of long-off for a good diving catch!

Shakib Al Hasan c David Miller b Shoaib Malik 2 (4b, 0x4, 0x6)

13.1 Shoaib Malik to Shakib Al Hasan, round the wicket, full around off-stump. Pushed off the front foot to backward point, no run.