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by Reemus Fernando

Mahanama earned their first points of the tournament when they settled for a first innings win against Prince of Wales in the Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ tournament match at Moratuwa on Friday.Chasing a target of 153 runs to win Thurstan were 144 for five wickets when rain forced an early end to the Division I match against St. Anne’s who earned first innings points at Thurstan ground.

At Reid Avenue, St. Benedict’s were 165 for six wickets when rain brought an abrupt end to the first day’s play in the traditional match against Royal.The match between Ananda and Holy Cross College saw only 39 overs being bowled on day one due to wet weather conditions.

Mahanama in first innings win over Cambrians at Moratuwa

Scores:

Prince of Wales 172 all out in 54.4 overs (Gavesha Rohana 51, Yehenith Bandara 46, Suwahas Fernando 29; Sithum Vihanga 5/45, Anuka Wijewardana 2/34) and 58 for 5 in 12.3 overs (Chamika Heenatigala 2/20)

Mahanama 151 for 4 overnight 260 for 9 decl. in 73.1 overs (Dulneth Algawatte 82, Chamika Heenatigala 91, Eshan Withanage 39; Nethul Anuhas 3/79, Prince Fernando 2/35)

St. Anne’s win first innings at Thurstan ground

Scores:

St. Anne’s 104 all out in 38.1 overs (Shehan Kumara 51; Rachintha de Silva 4/40, Thanuga Palihawadana 3/20, Sethru Fernando 2/10) and 146 all out in 39.4 overs (Buddhima Nandasiri 25, Sanuja Dissanayake 46, Chamith Sesanjana 36; Thanuga Palihawadana 2/58, Sethru Fernando 2/25, Rachintha de Silva 2/16, Yovun Silpa 3/19)

Thurstan 98 all out in 41.2 overs (Dinal Induwara 32, Pathum Dananjaya 27; Brazeer Shakeel 2/24, Shehan Kumara 5/16) and 144 for 5 in 43.4 overs (Dinal Induwara 20, Sethru Fernando 21, Rachintha de Silva 43n.o., Pathum Dananjaya 44n.o.; Shehan Kumara 2/41, Yashmin Jayasundara 2/11)

Day one limited to 49 overs at Reid Avenue

Scores:

St. Benedict’s 165 for 6 in 48.5 overs (Samindu Peiris 88; Ranuka Malaviarachchi 2/37, Kuchila Ranmadala 2/16)

 

 



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Ghosh, Ahuja script stunning comeback as RCB complete WPL’s biggest chase

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Richa Ghosh smacked four fours and a six off Ashleigh Gardner in a match-turning 16th over [BCCI]

A run-fest that produced the highest aggregate as well as the highest successful chase in the WPL ended with defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru chasing down 202 in a canter in Vadodara.

Richa Gosh who was dropped first ball, showed there was more to her game than just brute force. Her 23-ball half-century injected momentum into RCB’s chase after Ellyse Perry’s dismissal for 57 left them needing 93 off 46 balls. Ghosh’s unbeaten, 26-ball 64 included a stunning takedown of Gujarat Giants captain Ashleigh Gardner in a 23-run 16th over to turn the game on its head.

Ghosh was supported by the diminutive left-hander Kanika Ahunja who scored an unbeaten 13-ball 30. Their unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 93 off just 37 balls completed a sensational RCB turnaround, consigning Gardner’s scarcely believable 37-ball 79 not out from earlier in the evening to second best.

Renuka Singh struggled for accuracy in her first two overs, but her first attempt at bowling stump-to-stump rather than searching for devious inswing led to Laura Wolvaardt being bowled for 6 in the fifth over. D Hemalatha came in at N0. 3 for Giants rather than Harleen Deol, and they were two down when she sliced the offspinner Ahuja to point. Giants were 41 for 2 in the seventh.

Beth Mooney shifted gears in the 10th over after she successfully overturned an lbw appeal through DRS off legspinner Georgia Wareham, whome she hit for three back-to-back fours while bringing up a 37-ball half-century. Mooney then stepped out and lofted legspinner Prema Rawat inside-out to the extra-cover boundary, but fell in the same over when she picked out Smriti Mandhana at midwicket for 56.

That brought in Deandra Dottin and she took just four balls to announce herself. She first thumped Kim Garth over mid-off and then played a neat little glide past the keeper to the deep third boundary.

At the other end, Gardner continued from where she had left off at the Women’s Ashes earlier in the month by taking toll of Rawat’s inexperience and hitting her for three consecutive sixes. After hitting the first two over long-off and long-on, she pummelled the half-tracker that followed over deep backward square leg.

Gardner was able to sustain this momentum against Wareham in the following over when she hit her for back-to-back fours. The Dottin-Gardner partnership had surged to 63 off 26 balls when Perry dropped a set Dottin at long-on, but it wouldn’t cost RCB much as she fell four balls later.

Gardner ended the innings in a blaze, taking down the teenaged seamer VJ Joshita as Giants hit 49 off the last three overs. Garner’s innings was studded with three fours and eight sixes.

Brief scores:
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women 202 for 4 in 18.3 overs  (Richa Ghosh 64*, Ellyse Perry 57,  Raghvi Bist 25, Kanika Ahuja 30*;  Ashleigh Gardner 2-33) beat Gujarat Giants Women  201 for 5 in 20 overs (Ashleigh Gardner 79, Mooney 56, Deandra Dottin 25; Renuka Singh  2-25) by six wickets

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Latham, Mitchell fifties take NZ to tri-series title after bowlers restrict Pakistan

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Daryl Mitchell scored 57 in the chase [Cricinfo]

Despite injuries to Lockie Ferguson, Ben Sears, Matt Henry and Rachin Ravindra, New Zealand clinched the tri-series title in Karachi and sounded out a warning to the hosts, five days before they meet again in the Champions Trophy  opener at the same venue. In the absence of the senior quicks, Will O’Rourke stepped up admirably with a four-wicket haul, while the spinners, led by Mitchell Santner,  straight-jacketed Pakistan in the middle overs, limiting them to 242.

The batters then completed the demolition job on a two-paced surface, chasing the target with 28 balls and five wickets to spare. After Devon Conway and Kane Williamson set the platform with a 71-run partnership for the second wicket, Daryl Mitchell launched from there in the middle overs, befuddling Pakistan’s spinners with his variety of sweeps – including the reverse. He struck up an 87-run stand with Tom Latham, which highlighted New Zealand’s dominance in the middle overs, before Michael Bracewell and Glenn Phillips sealed the deal.

It was Phillips who had kicked off the tri-series with an unbeaten 106 off 74 balls, his maiden ODI century, against Pakistan,  before Kane Williamson reminded the world of his genius with an unbeaten century of his own in New Zealand’s second game of the tri-series against South Africa. Having bagged ducks in those two games – and also against Sri Lanka in Auckland last month – Latham made a timely return to form, and re-established himself as New Zealand’s first-choice wicketkeeper-batter with his 56 off 64 balls.

Latham had benefitted from multiple reprieves – he was dropped by Shaheen Shah Afridi off his own bowling on 15, and then by Saud Shakeel at square leg on 29. Earlier, when he was on 13, legspinner Abrar Ahmed pinged him on his pad and wasn’t given out lbw. Pakistan missed a trick by not going for a review, with ball-tracking indicating that it had pitched in line and would have crashed into the stumps.

Abrar, Pakistan’s specialist spinner, lacked penetration, and was taken for 67 in his ten overs. In stark contrast, New Zealand’s premier spinner Santner was unhittable, coming away with his most economical ten-over spell in ODI cricket. Forty of his 60 balls were dots as Santner varied his pace from the mid-70s kph range to mid-90s kph with remarkable control. Bracewell also kept things tight, finishing with 2 for 38 in his ten overs.

The first powerplay was a portent for Pakistan’s go-slow. They played out 48 dots in the powerplay, in which they managed 48 for 2, and failed to hit a high tempo through the innings. After taking a sequence of short balls away from Fakhar Zaman with his sharp angle from over the wicket, including two off-side wides, O’Rourke brought a fuller one back into the opener and had him chipping a catch to square leg for 10 off 15 balls.

Babar Azam then brought the Karachi crowd alive when he laced Jacob Duffy through the covers for four, and became  joint fastest to 6000 ODI runs in his 123rd innings, alongside Hashim Amla. Nathan Smith, the seam-bowling allrounder, though spoiled the party when he had Babar spooning a return catch for 29 off 34 balls in his first over.

Pakistan captain Mohammad Rizwan needed 13 balls to get off the mark, and then four more balls to find the boundary. Salman Agha was more fluent at the other end, wedging the ball into the gaps as the pair forged an 88-run partnership for the fourth wicket.

The stand, however, ended when O’Rourke returned to the attack and had Rizwan chopping on with a cross-seamer, which stopped on him, for 46 off 76 balls. After hitting hard lengths and the splice of batters with high pace and bounce in the early exchanges, O’Rourke proved that he could be just as effective with the older ball. Almost five overs later, Bracewell had Agha miscuing a reverse sweep to short third to leave Pakistan at 161 for 5 in the 37th over.

Tayyab Tahir then gave the innings a leg-up with his 38 off 33 balls, but his innings was cut short by Duffy in the 42nd over. In the last eight overs, New Zealand conceded just four boundaries, keeping Pakistan to 242.

The new ball did a lot more under lights, with Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi using the swing and seam movement on offer to apply pressure on Conway and Williamson. In the first powerplay during the chase, the broadcaster put up a graphic showing the average swing achieved during the two innings. New Zealand’s seamers had generated 1.5 degrees of swing, and Pakistan’s 2.4 degrees.

The experienced pair of Conway and Williamson absorbed all of that pressure, and once the ball became older and softer, they picked away Pakistan’s spinners. Williamson carted Agha’s offspin over mid-off while Conway flayed Abrar and Khushdil Shah through the covers. When Williamson tried to pop Agha over the infield once again, he caused the ball to dip and turn to castle him for 34 off 49 balls. Conway then departed two short of his half-century, but the depth in skill in New Zealand’s middle order was too much to overcome for Pakistan.

New Zealand will be strengthened further by the potential return of Ravindra and Ferguson for the Champions Trophy opener on Wednesday.

Brief scores:
New Zealand 243 for 5 in 45.2 overs (Daryl Mitchell 57,Devon Conway 48, Tom Latham 56, Kane Williamson 34, Glenn Phillips 20*;  Naseem Shah 2-43) beat Pakistan 242 in 49.3 overs (Barbar Azam 29, Mohammad Rizwan 46, Salman Agha 45, Tayyab Tahir 28, Faheem Ashraf 22 ;  William O’Rourke 4-43, Mitchell Santner 2-20, Michael Bracewell 2-38) by five wickets

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Sri Lanka win the series with Mendis hundred and spin masterclass

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Charith Asalanka celebrates a 2-0 victory [Cricinfo]

Sri Lanka powered by a hundred from Kusal Mendis and a four wicket haul by Dunith Wellalage and three wickets each by Asitha Fernado and Wanidu Hasaranga crushed Australia by 174 runs in the second of the two match ODI series  played at the RPS.

Brief scores:
Sri Lanka 281/4 in 50 overs [Nishan Madushka 51, Kusal Mendis 101, Charith Asalanka 78*, Janith Liyanage 32*; Sean Abott 1-41] beat Australia 107/10 in 24.2 overs [Steven Smith 29, Josh Inglis 22; Asitha Fernando 3-23, Dunith Wellalage 4-35, Wanidu Hasaranga 3-23] by 174 runs

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