• BATSMEN
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    4.1 too easy for King at mid-off. Flighted very full on off, stock legbreak turns as Charles wanted to go back over Tahir's head but the turn produces a mistimed drive that floats to King on the ring and he takes a simple catch at head height. 26/1
    10.2 back of a length on fourth stump, Hope tries to play this a bit too orthodox punching straight aiming for mid-on rather than cross-batting this and the ball sticks in the wicket to produce a leading edge back to the bowler, too easy to take at thigh height. 62/4
    4.2 googly pings him stone dead in front of middle! Smit got away with a dropped chance on 0 at fine leg in the last game. No second life here. Tahir foxes him with a good length ball on fourth stump. Smit defaults to playing back to cut a stock legbreak, but it spins in as a googly and he is late getting the bat down. The finger goes up immediately. 26/2
    4.6 three wickets in the over and Tahir whips off the head band, charges to midwicket and heaves it in the air into the outfield! Stock legbreak lands very full on middle, Phillips plays for the googly flicking to midwicket and produces a leading edge that flutters gently back to Tahir at chest height. He takes it gleefully and then does what you'd expect of anyone who has taken three wickets in an over, Tahir or not. 28/3
    13.2 dropped! And then a runout! Chaos! Azam charges this first ball around the stumps. skies a heave to short fine leg on the ring. Shoaib Malik makes a total mess of it but there's backup from Kevin Sinclair very alert at deep backward square running in and firing a bullet to Pooran. Reifer jogged initially while the ball was in the air, then tries to hustle for two after seeing the drop. Azam responded initially for the second then changed his mind and Reifer pays the price stranded halfway down the pitch. Ugly cricket all around. You won't see that in a canvas painting in the Long Room at Lord's anytime soon. 80/5
    17.2 length ball on sixth stump, skies a heave over mid-off. King backpedals from the ring to take a superb catch reaching up over and behind his head. 112/6
    17.6 slower ball lands full on middle, Holder struggles to keep his hands back and shovels a skier to mid-off. Another well-taken catch by King coming back off the ring to pouch this at chest height. 114/7
    not out
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    137.50
    18.4 length ball on the hips, tries to just flick this off the body and instead skies this to deep fine leg. Tahir charges in off the rope while Pooran charges back from behind the stumps. The wind is taking it away from Pooran and he relents as Tahir holds onto this for a fantastic catch by his standards falling forward to his left. 116/8
    19.2 slower ball down leg, Young misses a flick and Lintott takes off looking to pinch a bye or an extra for a wide as it is signaled by the umpire. But Young never leaves his crease and seems caught off guard by Lintott running. They both wind up at the same end and Lintott just keeps walking off as Pooran relays to Shepherd who casually flicks one bail off. 124/9
    19.6 full on the legs, goes to heave again and misses, they try to pinch a leg bye as the ball flutters back to Shepherd. He underhands this into the striker's stumps with Thomas two yards short. 130/10
    Extras
    11 (b 5, lb 3, w 3)
    TOTAL
    130 all out (20 Overs, RR: 6.5)
    Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Johnson Charles, 4.1 ov), 2-26 (Smit Patel, 4.2 ov), 3-28 (Glenn Phillips, 4.6 ov), 4-62 (Shai Hope, 10.2 ov), 5-80 (Raymon Reifer, 13.2 ov), 6-112 (Azam Khan, 17.2 ov), 7-114 (Jason Holder, 17.6 ov), 8-116 (Ashley Nurse, 18.4 ov), 9-124 (Jake Lintott, 19.2 ov), 10-130 (Oshane Thomas, 19.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    C Hemraj10202.0040000
    R Shepherd403328.25135110
    Imran Tahir403438.5091310
    G Motie401513.75131000
    OF Smith402215.5092010
    K Sinclair201407.0042000
    Mohammad Hafeez10202.0040000

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