Kandy vs Titans, 12th Match at Kandy, LPL, Aug 08 2023 - Ball by Ball Commentary

Quite fittingly the aberration Hasaranga wraps up the game in style! He decimated Galle Titans with both bat and ball. It's a quintessential example of leading from the front. Ngarava flexes his muscles and launches it down the ground but didn't get enough elevation, finds Chameera at long-on who takes the catch comfortably

Gottim with a beauty! Breaches Shamsi's defences with an incredible wrong'un, he went for a big mow over leg side but he got lots of revs on the ball and it turned sharply, too good for him

Dances down the track and is not near the line, tries to swing for the grandstands but misses it by a mile. Ball spins away, brushing his back pad and deflecting past Mathews at slip to third man. Review taken. Pitching outside off and going past the leg stump

Hurriedly jammed away to square leg's left

Pulled and Priyanjan holed out to square leg! Arachchige swallows this down his throat and the batter looks distraught. It was another slow ball and he got it absolutely spot on this time. Got a top edge and it went straight up

Slow ball gone horribly wrong, that should be two wides, down the leg and wide signaled

Another yorker not that far from the target, digs it out to mid-on

Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Now that's a tremendous riposte. Hurls a heat-seeking yorker on middle and it's too good for him, he is unable to jam his bat down and keep it out as the ball wrecks the stumps. What a sight for the bowler, not so much for Samarakoon who will be looking away from the big screen

Summons a bumper around the line off, he clears his front leg and absolutely leathers it over deep square for half-a-dozen runs. He got right under it and hit it really well

Pitched up on off, stoically punched to mid-off on the up

Throws a knife at him on a shortish length around the line off, he flicks it across the line to square leg

A touch short, pitching on leg en route to middle, bunted down the ground towards off

Slightly shorter outside off, a cutter at 117.8 kph, flicked using his fluid wrists to midwicket

Short ball just outside off, glides it down to deep third man

Deft touch! A throat ball just outside off, he gets away from the line and steers it down to third man boundary. This will help their NRR

Hits him on the pad and prompts an lbw appeal, umpire thinks otherwise. Sent upstairs. Beats the flick, pitching outside off, impact n line and just kissing the off stump so that's that, would have been out if it was given out by the on-field and a run-out chance gone begging as well, Samarakoon had given up as the throw came in late from the deep fine leg

Inside edge dribbles away down the hill for a boundary, missed hitting the leg stump by a whisker. Moral victory for the bowler

Oh my word! He has just clubbed that over the ropes at deep square! This was short and outside off, a free swing of the bat and gets enough wood on that as this sails over into the aisles. A terrific hit right out of the screws

Round the wicket, rams the yorker on middle and he bashes it down to Hasaranga at long-off who makes a brilliant tumbling stop to his right.

Attempts a cheeky scoop over the bowler's head, Udana cleverly keeps it away from his levers and spears it wide just inside the tramline