Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
AD Hales
65(47) 7x4 - 2x6
Control %65%
- Productive Shot
- slog sweep
- 12 runs
- 0x4 - 2x6
WIA Fernando
59(48) 7x4 - 1x6
Control %86%
- Productive Shot
- pull
- 18 runs
- 3x4 - 0x6
02/07Result
2nd Match (D/N), Lanka Premier League at Kandy, Jul 2 2024
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![Jaffna Kings]( "Jaffna Kings")
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![Galle Marvels]( "Galle Marvels")
179/5 (20 ov)
Player of the Match
02/07Result
2nd Match (D/N), Lanka Premier League at Kandy, Jul 2 2024
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![Jaffna Kings]( "Jaffna Kings")
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![Galle Marvels]( "Galle Marvels")
179/5 (20 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Match Details
Toss
Jaffna Kings , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
15.00 start, First Session 15.00-16.30, Interval 16.30-16.50, Second Session 16.50-18.20
Match days
2 July 2024 - day/night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Galle Marvels 2, Jaffna Kings 0
Scorecard Summary
JAFFNA KINGS 177/7 (20 OVERS)
- Avishka Fernando59 (48)
- Pathum Nissanka51 (33)
- Dwaine Pretorius2/23 (4)
- Zahoor Khan3/34 (4)
GALLE MARVELS 179/5 (20 OVERS)
- Alex Hales65 (47)
- Niroshan Dickwella47 (27)
- Fabian Allen2/33 (4)
- Asitha Fernando2/40 (4)
Scorer: Chetan Kumar | Commentator: @himanshu_a30
END OF OVER:20 | 10 Runs 1 Wkt | GAM: 179/5 | RR: 8.95
- Sahan Arachchige5 (2b)
- Dwaine Pretorius9 (5b)
- Asitha Fernando4-0-40-2
- Jason Behrendorff4-0-37-0
Galle Marvels start off the tournament with a win this evening, but the action from the LPL today isn't done yet. Join us for the Kandy vs Colombo game in about an hour. Until then, goodbye from this one! Take care!
Niroshan Dickwella, Galle Marvels captain: "Hales and I were just talking that we get through the powerplay. It was a tricky wicket - on the slower side. It was a good toss to lose. It was a used wicket, and we didn't know what the wicket would do. I wanted to take down the legspinner, but I got out. We dragged the game to the last over."
Charith Asalanka, Jaffna Kings captain: "I think we had enough runs on the board. When we were bowling, we gave them more pace - we could have bowled more slower balls. Dhananjaya and Fabian bowled fantastically. Credit goes to Niroshan and Hales."
Alex Hales is the Player of the Match: "Different to back in the UK. Little bit slower... Dickwella definitely made my job a lot easier. I was trying to get going in the powerplay, but it didn't quite happen."
Time for the presentations
6.22pm A thrilling finish where Galle's No. 7, facing just his second ball on a slow pitch, scooped the ball for four to get his side over the line. The momentum kept swinging this way and that for much of the second half of the chase, after Dickwella fired 47 off 27 balls to give Galle the perfect start. But Jaffna hit back through Allen, who struck twice - including getting Hales for 65 - even as Liyanage's cameo of 25 from 13 balls, and Arachchige's final-ball scoop, took Galle to victory.
19.6
4
AM Fernando to Arachchige, FOUR, wow, the shot which Pretorius wanted to execute off the previous ball is done by Arachchige in this one! He got across the stumps early, and successfully scooped this slower ball angling across and finishing a bit wide of off after landing on a length. The ball didn't quite seemed timed entirely well, but it still ballooned over the short-fine leg fielder's head for a four
Three needed off one ball...
19.5
1
AM Fernando to Pretorius, 1 run, ohh, just a single! That means Pretorius will be off strike, with Galle needing three off the final ball. Pretorius went to scoop this full-length ball angling into the stumps, but ended up toe-ending it to short fine leg's left
Pretorius on strike, with four more needed...
19.4
1
AM Fernando to Arachchige, 1 run, change of pace again, and on a length just outside off after angling across. Clipped to deep midwicket
Arachchige
19.3
W
AM Fernando to Liyanage, OUT, slashed to point! Ohh, a late twist in the dying stages of the game. Asitha bowled a slower ball on the shorter side of a length, and got it to climb on top of off. Liyanage went hacking, but was beaten by the extra bounce, as he ended up finding the man at point
J Liyanage c Nissanka b AM Fernando 25 (13b 3x4 1x6) SR: 192.30
19.2
4
AM Fernando to Liyanage, FOUR, runs away between point and short third! I think it was intentional even as it came off the outside half of the bat, as Liyanage opened the face of the bat at this low full toss angling into off
19.1
0
AM Fernando to Liyanage, no run, ohh, dot ball to start! Almost a yorker-length ball just outside off, as Liyanage skips down to try and slash, but is beaten
Just nine required in the final over
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