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LPL 2021 Match 7: Jaffna Kings out-bat Kandy Warriors in six-hitting frenzy

09 Dec 2021

        [caption id="attachment_178559" align="alignleft" width="233"] Veteran pacie Suranga Lakmal, playing for Jaffna Kings, was adjudged the Player of the Match[/caption]   By Marlon Dale Ferreira The rain curtailed seventh match of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2021 encounter between the Jaffna Kings and Kandy Warriors saw a record total of 27 sixes being smashed in an exhibition of power hitting that saw the Kings eventually win by 14 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday (8). The game reduced to a 14 over affair, saw Jaffna Kings Skipper Thisara Perera and Sri Lankan international batter Avishka Fernando bludgeon the Warriors’ attack in a devastating partnership of 105 runs off a mere 33 deliveries. Fernando incidentally tore bowler Tillakaratne Sampath apart hitting the bowler for five sixes in one over. Both batters scored exactly 53 runs apiece with Fernando’s knock containing seven sixes coming off 23 balls. Perera too clobbered six sixes to go along with tw fours made off 21 deliveries. Late-order batter Chathuranga De Silva then joined the party to clout two more sixes at the end, as the Jaffna Kings put up a commanding total of 181/6 wickets, at the end of their 14 over innings. Kandy Warriors, in their pursuit of this gigantic total, got off to a blistering start with Charith Asalanka thumping 42 off 19 balls before he was out in the last ball of the sixth over, not after he had taken his team’s total to 64 batting alongside Kennar Lewis. However it was the next 5.2 overs that spectators were further entertained in the second part of the fireworks show, when West Indian Rovman Powell smoked seven sixes and two fours in making 61 runs off 19 balls at a strike rate of 321.05 and further put on a 79-run partnership with Lewis. The Kandy Warriors lagged behind after the fall of Powell’s wicket as Kennar Lewis even though occupying the crease and providing much needed support at the other end used up 36 deliveries in making his 41 runs. Despite all the carnage that took place with willow smacking leather out of the park, it was a bowler, Suranga Lakmal who walked away with the Player of the Match award for his spell of 3-0-25-1 but more importantly getting the prized scalp of the danger-man Powell, out to a peach of a Yorker that he delivered and thereafter minimised the scoring at the end of the Warriors innings. Scores: Jaffna Kings 181/6 in 14 overs (Avishka Fernando 53, Thisara Perera 53, Chathuranga de Silva 21; Shiraz Ahmed 3/22) Kandy Warriors 166/5 in 14 overs (Kennar Lewis 41, Charith Asalanka 42, Rovman Powell 61; Jayden Seales 2/40, Suranga Lakmal 1/25) Player of the Match: Suranga Lakmal  

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