Colombo vs Kandy, Eliminator at Colombo, LPL, Jul 18 2024 - Match Result

pierces the infield through midwicket and Falcons win. This is a flattish ball on the stumps, flicked hard and once it goes past the midwicket fielder saving the single, they celebrate.

fired in outside off, driven to mid off. They look for a single but there's none there

flatter ball outside off, fended to point.

flatter ball, fired in towards off stump, and they have pushed this to mid off. Scores tied now

looks for the yorker, swings it in, but pitches it just short of the blockhole and outside off stump, and Gomez fences this away to deep point. They take a single and just need two

back of a length ball outside off, leaves that one alone.

yorker outside off at 152kph. Dug out with a short backlift. Gomez survives.

a very low full toss, swinging in to the batter. Got his bat down, and got an inside edge to it, and scampers a run to midwicket

a third wide in a row. There's some reverse here, and Pathirana is not quite controlling it. Looking for that magic yorker.

another big appeal, but that's another wide. This is a short of a length ball past the leg stump. Flies past Ramesh's gloves though.

yorker, flung down leg stump so that's a wide. Pathirana searching desperately for a wicket here.

huge appeal, but that yorker is going way down leg. Hits the batter's back leg. Strikers don't bother reviewing.

oh wow! A magic ball, that takes the outside of off stump at 150kph, and sends Kamindu back to the dugout. This is angled across Kamindu, and possibly moving away slightly, but in any case, the best batter of the match has missed this ball and had his off stump pegged back. Can Pathirana get more this over?

yorker into the stumps. Slower ball, fingers rolled over it, and Shanaka is early on the shot trying to bash this down the ground. He misses, and Binura finds the base of off stump.

full, on the stumps, flicked to deep midwicket and they look for two, but it's just a single this time

back of a length on thigh pad, pushed too midwicket

length outside off, just pushed wide of cover and they take another single

full on the stumps, pushed wide of long on and though that's Phillips down there, they sprint back for two.

length ball on the stumps, dropped towards leg and they take one

short of a length, just wide of off, and Kamindu goes back and crashes this over deep midwicket for six. This is a calculated strike, with no fielder there. He clears the rope by a metre or so, and gets to his half century off 32 balls. The best innings of the match so far, and Falcons are striding towards victory