Galle Gladiators beats Jaffna Kings by 64 runs to entry to the final.
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The Qualifier 1 Match of the Lanka Premier League 2021 was played yesterday between Jaffna Kings and Galle Gladiators at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota. In which Galle Gladiators beats Jaffna Kings by 64 runs to reach the final.
Jaffna Kings won the toss and invited Galle Gladiators to bat first, Galle Gladiators batted first started the inning very brilliantly, Kusal Mendis and Danushka Gunathilaka came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start with a century partnership of 121 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket has gone for 121 runs in the second ball of the 14th over, Danushka Gunathilaka dismissed after playing a brilliant half-century inning of 55 runs with the help of 1 six and 6 boundaries in just 42 balls, next batsman Anwar Ali came to bat, and played well for a while with Kusal Mendis, the second wicket has gone for 147 runs in 15.5 over, Anwar Ali dismissed just for 12 runs in 7 balls, next batsman Bhanuka Rajapaksa came to bat, and played well with Kusal Mendis, the third wicket has gone for 175 runs in 18.5 over, Kusal Mendis dismissed after playing a very brilliant half-century inning of 85 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 7 boundaries in just 53 balls, next batsman Mohammad Hafeez came to bat, and he dismissed just for 1 run as the fourth wicket in the second ball of the last over, the team score was 176 runs, followed by Samit Patel came to bat, and he remains unbeaten without scoring, and Bhanuka Rajapaksa dimsissed as fifth wicket after scoring 25 runs in just 15 balls in the last ball of the inning, the team score was 188 runs. In this way, Galle Gladiators batted first after losing the toss scored 188 runs for the loss of just 5 wickets in stipulated 20 overs, and set a target of 189 runs for Jaffna Kings.
Jaffna Kings all bowlers were quite expensive, Thisara Perera took 2 wickets for 36 runs, Wahab Riaz took 2 wickets for 39 runs, and Suranga Lakmal got 1 wicket for 29 runs.
Jaffna Kings chasing 189 runs in the second inning, the entire team dismissed just for 124 runs in the fifth ball of the 17th over and lost the match by a big margin of 64 runs. Jaffna Kings the inning very badly, Rahmanullah Gurbaz played a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 59 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 37 balls, Wanindu Hasaranga also played a quick inning of 29 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 3 boundaries in just 15 balls, apart from this no batsman could reach out of 10 runs, continuously wickets falling one after another, Ashen Bandara dismissed just for 9 runs, Avishka Fernando 6 runs, Chaturanga de Silva 6 runs, Tom Kohler-Cadmore 4 runs, Thisara Perera 4 runs, Shoaib Malik 2 runs, Wahab Riaz 1 run, Maheesh Theekshana dismissed without scoring, and Suranga Lakmal remains unbeaten without scoring, in this way entire team all-out just for 124 runs in 16.5 overs and lost the Qualifier 1 match by a big margin by 64 runs.
Galle Gladiators bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Nuwan Thushara took 5 wickets just for 13 runs in 3.5 over, Mohammad Amir, Isuru Udana, Pulina Tharanga, and Anwar Ali got 1-1 wicket.
Galle Gladiators batsman Kusal Mendis was selected as the best player of the match, he played a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 85 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 7 boundaries in just 53 balls.
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