2021 Lanka Premier League Final
| Event | 2021 Lanka Premier League | ||||||
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| Jaffna Kings won by 23 runs | |||||||
| Date | 23 December 2021 | ||||||
| Venue | Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota | ||||||
| Player of the match | Avishka Fernando (Jaffna Kings) | ||||||
| Umpires | Lyndon Hannibal (Sri Lanka) Raveendra Wimalasiri (Sri Lanka) | ||||||
← 2020 2022 → | |||||||
The 2021 Lanka Premier League Final was played on 23 December 2021 at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota, Sri Lanka.[1][2][3] It was a day/night twenty20 match between Galle Gladiators and Jaffna Kings,[4][5] which decided the winner of 2021 season of the Lanka Premier League (LPL), an annual franchise cricket tournament in Sri Lanka. Jaffna Kings won the match by 23 runs beating Galle Gladiators, to win their second successive LPL title.[6]
Road to the final
[edit]Source: ESPNcricinfo[7]
Match
[edit]Match officials
[edit]- On-field umpires: Lyndon Hannibal (SL) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL)
- Third umpire: Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL)
- Reserve umpire: Prageeth Rambukwella (SL)
- Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SL)
Summery
[edit]Jaffna Kings
201/3 (20 overs) |
v
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Galle Gladiators
178/9 (20 overs) |
- Jaffna Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
Match scorecard
[edit]1st innings
[edit]| Jaffna Kings innings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Avishka Fernando | c Gunathilaka b Thushara | 63 | 41 | 8 | 2 | 153.65 | |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) | c K Mendis b Patel | 35 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 194.44 | |
| Tom Kohler-Cadmore | not out | 57 | 41 | 2 | 3 | 139.02 | |
| Shoaib Malik | c Pulina b Amir | 23 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 209.09 | |
| Thisara Perera (c) | not out | 17 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 188.88 | |
| Ashan Randika | did not bat | ||||||
| Wanindu Hasaranga | did not bat | ||||||
| Chaturanga de Silva | did not bat | ||||||
| Jayden Seales | did not bat | ||||||
| Suranga Lakmal | did not bat | ||||||
| Maheesh Theekshana | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras 6 (b 1, lb 2, wd 3) Total 201/3 (20 overs) |
15 | 12 | RR: 10.05 | ||||
Fall of wickets: 1/56 (Gurbaz, 5.2 ov), 2/119 (Avishka, 12.4 ov), 3/181 (Malik, 18.2 ov)
| Galle Gladiators bowling | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Mohammad Amir | 4 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 9.75 | 2 | 0 |
| Nuwan Thushara | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 8.25 | 1 | 0 |
| Dhananjaya Lakshan | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 14.50 | 0 | 0 |
| Isuru Udana | 3 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 12.66 | 0 | 0 |
| Samit Patel | 4 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 8.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Pulina Tharanga | 3 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 9.00 | 0 | 0 |
2nd innings
[edit]Target: 202 runs from 20 overs at 10.10 RR
| Galle Gladiators innings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Kusal Mendis | run out (Perera) | 39 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 139.28 | |
| Danushka Gunathilaka | c Perera b Hasaranga | 54 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 257.14 | |
| Ben Dunk (wk) | c Lakmal b Hasaranga | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Mohammad Hafeez | run out (Chathuranga/Hasaranga/†Gurbaz) | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 166.66 | |
| Bhanuka Rajapaksa (c) | c Hasaranga b Theekshana | 14 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| Samit Patel | c Seales b Lakmal | 22 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 110.00 | |
| Dhananjaya Lakshan | c Hasaranga b Chathuranga | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Pulina Tharanga | b Chathuranga | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Isuru Udana | c Malik b Seales | 9 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 81.81 | |
| Mohammad Amir | not out | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Nuwan Thushara | not out | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 250.00 | |
| Extras 13 (b 1, lb 10, wd 2) Total 178/9 (20 overs) |
17 | 5 | RR: 10.10 | ||||
Fall of wickets: 1/63 (Gunathilaka, 4.2 ov), 2/63 (Dunk, 4.3 ov), 3/84 (Hafeez, 6.2 ov), 4/113 (Rajapaksa, 10.4 ov), 5/129 (K Mendis, 13.1 ov), 6/133 (Lakshan, 13.6 ov), 7/143 (Pulina, 15.5 ov), 8/158 (Patel, 17.6 ov), 9/168 (Udana, 18.5 ov)
| Jaffna Kings bowling | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Maheesh Theekshana | 4 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 12.75 | 0 | 0 |
| Jayden Seales | 3 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 12.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Suranga Lakmal | 3 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 7.66 | 0 | 0 |
| Wanindu Hasaranga | 4 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 7.50 | 1 | 0 |
| Shoaib Malik | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4.00 | 1 | 0 |
| Chaturanga de Silva | 3 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 5.00 | 0 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ "THE LANKA PREMIER LEAGUE 2021 WILL COMMENCE ON THE 05TH DECEMBER 2021". Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "LPL 2021 schedule: Full list of fixtures for the 2021 Lanka Premier League". Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "LPL 2021 - Lanka Premier League T20". Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "LPL: Kusal Mendis shines as Galle Gladiators book place in final". Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Avishka Fernando's maiden T20 hundred takes Jaffna Kings into LPL final". Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ "Avishka, Kohler-Cadmore fire Jaffna Kings to second successive LPL title". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ "Lanka Premier League 2021 – Fixtures and Results". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
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