Combined Provinces v Kandurata - Sri Lanka Cricket Inter-Provincial T20 - First Innings Report
Batting first, Combined Provinces has scored 61 for the loss of 8 wickets in the given 9 overs against Kandurata, in a game of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 Cricket Inter-Provincial T20 tournament today, July 23 at Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.
The 20-over match was reduced to 9 overs due to showers and thunder storms which delayed the start of play.
Winning the toss, Kandurata elected to bowl first in order to capitalize on the wet wicket conditions to their favour.
On the invitation to bat, Combined Provinces started their innings http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rupasinghe-Jayawardene-Mudiyanselage-Gihan-Madushanka-Rupasinghe-c87122 as openers. The strategy of Kandurata proved to e successful as the swinging deliveries helped them get early breakthroughs.
The first wicket fell on the 4th ball of the first over. Muttiah Muralitharan’s dangerous delivery touched the pads of Rupasinghe and he was declared to be out by the umpire. He did not even open his account.
Jeevan Mendis, the one-down batsman who succeeded the outgoing opener, went in the same way on the last ball of the first over.
After the collapse of two important wickets, Combined Provinces came under pressure.
On the very first delivery of the second over, Mahtews was caught behind, edging a swinging ball by Ferveez Maharoof, which went straight to the wicketkeeper.
The next two batsmen, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pinnaduwage-Chaturanga-de-Silva-c82299, showed a little resistance but the former was stumped in the 6th over. He scored 5.
Silva played marvellously and made 27 runs off 15 deliveries with the help of 3 fours and 1 sterling six before being bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jehan-Mubarak-c66822 in the 6th over.
Among the preceding batsmen, only http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sachith-Shanaka-Pathirana-c87810 could defend a little and score 15 from 12 deliveries including one boundary.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Isuru-Udana-c64628 scored 2 each before the 9-over quota came to an end.
Thus, Combined Provinces totalled 61 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. Their run rate had been 6.77 per over.
In the bowling line-up of Kandurata, Mubarak was the leading wicket taker with 4 for 7 while Muralitharan and Maharoof grabbed 2 wickets each.
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