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A summary of the fifth round of matches in New Zealand’s domestic one-day competition

Cricinfo staff28-Dec-2009Martin Guptill’s scintillating innings made light work of a challenging chase as Auckland cruised to a five-wicket win over Canterbury in Christchurch. Canterbury’s start was thwarted by the loss of their openers before Peter Fulton and Johann Myburgh steadied the ship with a 93-run stand. Scott Styris accounted for Fulton when he was a shot away from his half-century, but Myburgh had set his sights on a big innings. Craig McMillan provided the impetus with a typically belligerent 57 that included five fours and two sixes. The fifth wicket raised 90 in 73 balls before McMillan’s dismissal triggered a flurry of wickets that denied Canterbury the finishing flourish. Myburgh was run out off the penultimate ball of the innings for 112, setting Auckland a steep chase of 283. Guptill, however, was intent on making it a no-contest and took charge of the match with a calculated assault from which only Rob Nicol and Chris Martin escaped. Striking 20 fours and three sixes off 137 balls, Guptill put Auckland in sight of victory through useful stands with Richard Jones, Ravi Bopara and Styris, before falling for 156.While Guptill’s effort scuppered Canterbury’s chances, Central Districts faced no such problems from Otago, easing to a 59-run victory in Dunedin. The toss was one of the few things that went right for Otago, who were immediately on the back foot with Central Districts’ rapid start to the innings. Neil Wagner and Yasir Arafat engineered a strong comeback, getting three wickets for seven runs to stifle the momentum. However, their joy was short-lived as Timothy Weston and Jacob Oram rebuilt the innings with a 121-run stand that set Central Districts up for a strong finish. While both batsmen missed hundreds, the lower middle-order ensured that their work did not go to waste as Kieran Noema-Barnett, Graham Napier and George Worker pushed Central Districts to 297 before a late spark from Ian Butler bowled them out in the last over. Despite getting starts, none of the Otago batsmen were able to play the anchor role and they floundered to 125 for 5 just after the halfway mark. Butler was again in the thick of action, trying to spark a lower order revival, but steady spells by Central Districts’ back-up bowlers ensured that the script ended in their favour. Oram picked up 3 for 48 as Otago’s innings folded in the 45th over.Wellington completed a 22-run win against Northern Districts in a rain-affected encounter at Seddon Park. Kane Williamson’s 70 was the mainstay of Northern District’s innings, while Michael Parlane and Anton Devcich chipped in with useful contributions. Dewayne Bowden, Andy McKay and Paul Hitchcock took two wickets apiece to keep the score down to 223. Wellington’s chase looked to be on course when the heavens opened in the 35th over of the chase with the score on 156 for 4. Mathew Bell’s responsible 40 had taken charge of the chase when the D/L method adjudged Wellington the victor.

Najmul Hossain Shanto’s run-out in the 17th over and the two-wicket 18th over, Taskin said, turned the match in Sri Lanka’s favour

Andrew Fidel Fernando03-Jul-2025″I was expecting we would win with five to seven overs in hand,”Bangladesh fast bowler Taskin Ahmed said after the first ODI. He was right to think that that was the strongest possibility, as Tanzid Hasan and Najmul Hossain Shanto took them to 96 for 1 at the end of 16 overs in a chase of 245.But frequently, expectations are not reality. And collapses happen. Bangladesh lost seven wickets in the time it took them to score five runs.What sparked the collapse was a good piece of fielding by debutant Milan Rathnayake, which helped run Shanto out for 23. Not long after, Wanindu Hasaranga had Litton Das and Tanzid in the same over.Related

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“Those two wickets in one over was the turning point for them,” Taskin said. “Definitely, we batted badly in the middle phase, but we had a great start with 100 runs in 16 overs. Then 100 for 2 and 107 [105] for 8 – that was very costly.Perhaps Bangladesh’s best batter of the evening was Jaker Ali, who hit 51 off 64 balls.”When Jaker got set, he was batting very well,” Taskin said. “He scored a fifty. With him, if we had two or three batters left, then we could have won the match. Yes, it’s accepted that we didn’t bat well, but seeing two or three guys bat on this wicket, it doesn’t feel like the wicket was that bad. That was our failure.”Taskin said that perhaps “panic” had been the reason for the loss.”Yeah, after that great start, we were a bit relaxed that everything was going our way, and suddenly, that run-out and one of our set batters, Tamim [Tanzid], got out,” he said. “Then we panicked a bit. We didn’t play our natural game, and under pressure, we collapsed. That’s how we lost this match.”

With Australia needing 43 off 12 balls, India seemed to have the advantage. Maxwell and Wade, though, had other ideas

ESPNcricinfo staff28-Nov-202318.1Axar to Wade, FOUR runs
Too full to Wade and he absolutely muscles that through the covers, beats a diving long-off as well for four!18.2Axar to Wade, 2 runs
Short and towards the hips, Wade pulls it away towards long leg and Tilak Varma does very well to cover ground to his left and save two18.3Axar to Wade, FOUR runs
Just over SKY for four more! Outside off, Wade frees his arms with hard hands again, and the ball just evades a leaping SKY at cover to find the gap in the deep18.4Axar to Wade, (no ball)
Well wide outside off to try and beat Wade’s bat, and it does beat his bat. It’s called a wide but Kishan has whipped the bails off quickly and they’re checking for a stumping now. No edge first of all, going by the protocol. Wade’s back foot his outside the crease when he misses the ball, but Kishan’s collection is such that the third umpire says his gloves are not completely behind the stumps, so that’s not legal and called a no-ball18.4Axar to Wade, SIX runs
Fuller now towards Wade, he goes down on a knee and dispatches that high into the sky on the leg side, smoking it for a six over long-on!18.5Axar to Wade, 1 run
95kmh, doesn’t give him the length or width now, Wade swings again but mistimes it to long-on for one18.6Axar to Maxwell, 4 byes
Beats Maxwell’s bat but Kishan misses it and it’s gone for four byes! Outside off, Maxwell takes out the reverse, the ball goes under the bat and Kishan puts his hand up to apologise after missing that19.1Prasidh to Wade, FOUR runs
Starts with a short ball at 135.5kmh and Wade will take that happily because there’s pace on the ball, fine leg is in the deep, and he can pull that late to send it crashing into the long leg boundary19.2Prasidh to Wade, 1 run
It’s a slower one at 122.4kmh nearly in the block hole and Wade middles the lofted drive, doesn’t carry to deep cover though19.3Prasidh to Maxwell, SIX runs
It’s too wide on the off side, he has a lot of room to free his arms and he waits before slicing that right over Rinku Singh’s head at deep cover. The field placement was right, but the connection even better19.4Prasidh to Maxwell, FOUR runs
The crowd cannot believe it, it’s four more! Short and wide, slices that late and even though the connection didn’t look good enough this time, it was enough to beat a sprinting deep third behind squareMathew Wade and Glenn Maxwell added 91 off 40 balls to take Australia to victory•BCCI

19.5Prasidh to Maxwell, FOUR runs
Maxwell gets to another stunning century! It’s a full toss – was it above the waist though – and Maxwell won’t leave that. He heaves it to to leg and finds the gap between long-on and deep midwicket to send it to the boundary for four19.6Prasidh to Maxwell, FOUR runs
Maxwell has done it and stunned the crowd! Full, straight, and Maxwell sends it back straight over the bowler’s head to run into Wade’s hug with a massive smile that didn’t leave him since his fifty

After losing his Western Australia rookie contract in 2019, David took a different route to make Australia’s T20I squad

Andrew McGlashan01-Sep-2022It felt appropriate that Tim David reflected on being called up to the Australia squad from the UK, where he has played the T20 Blast and the Hundred over recent months, on his way to the CPL in the West Indies where he will have a handful of games before heading to India and a likely Australia debut.He has forged his own, very modern, route in the game and it has now taken him to the top. Quite how he fits into Australia’s XI for the World Cup remains to be seen, but over the last couple of years Singapore-born David has built a record as a finisher that few can match and which has already brought him success around the globe.It wasn’t something he singularly focused on when he lost his rookie contract with Western Australia after the 2018-19 season, but he has followed the path that was opening in front of him.”It probably hasn’t been a sole focus, it’s just naturally evolved into that way,” he said. “My first opportunity after being released by Western Australia was to go and play for Singapore, so went and did that then came back at the opportunity to go to the [Hobart] Hurricanes.”From there the only thing I was going to do in professional cricket was play T20, so you focus on those skills and I have had more opportunities from there. It may look unorthodox but I’ve been out playing a lot of T20 cricket and really stoked to be getting to this point.”Related

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David detailed the situation that unfolded earlier this year when he had been picked in Australia’s T20I squad to face Sri Lanka and found out hours before he was due to fly to the PSL. He believed the certainty of games with Multan Sultans would be better value for him and national selector George Bailey was on board.”To be honest, at no point there was being picked for Australia really something I was thinking about,” he said. “I was flying to Pakistan later that day and got the call from George and at that point I didn’t know what to do. I thought, they’ve just won the World Cup and that was still a really strong team.”I’ve always tried to make decisions that are best for my career. I thought that would be an opportunity for me to improve and if I could do that over a period of time then maybe I was going to be a player who could be an asset to the Australian squad. For George to be able to see that and be really supportive of that it was great.””It may look unorthodox but I’ve been out playing a lot of T20 cricket and really stoked to be getting to this point”•Cricket Australia via Getty Images

The next part of the conversation will likely come after the World Cup where there are more bilateral T20I series that will overlap with domestic tournaments. If David was to hold a CA contract – which he would be eligible for if he played 12 T20Is this season – then he would not have the same freedom, particularly during the September-April period.How the game accommodates a player such as David without hindering their earning potential will likely be a topic of much debate in the next few years. Bailey was unsure whether he would become a trendsetter for how to build a career outside of traditional domestic set-up, but his body of work had made him impossible to look beyond.”He’s been a star of the Big Bash for some time,” Bailey said. “We get to the end of the Big Bash and we like to look at who is leading the run chart and facing the most balls, but if you look at franchise and international teams around the world the ability to finish an innings, whether that’s two, 12 or 20 balls, is highly sought after.”It’s a different journey, no doubt about that, and when you get the opportunity to hear about the journey it’s great. He has been part of our domestic systems…but it’s certainly unique. I think it’s really challenging for players to just be a franchise cricketer without having a base or support network. And it’s new, too. You might see it more and more but there are some challenges as well.”For now, all roads lead to the World Cup for David. Via a couple more stops along the way.

CSK might want to replace Gaikwad with Uthappa, while Narine could get a look-in for KKR

Sreshth Shah20-Apr-20217:11

Where should Sam Curran bat? Should Kolkata play Narine?

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The Chennai Super Kings’ opening-game defeat and the Kolkata Knight Riders’ first-match win both seem so long back already – since then, their fortunes have headed in opposite directions.A long batting line-up together with a combination of swing bowlers and spinners have made the Super Kings early contenders for a playoff spot even though they are only three matches old at the moment. MS Dhoni’s own batting form has been far from great, but the other batters seem to have more clarity in how to maximise their scoring, with everyone is chipping in across various periods in different games.Deepak Chahar made the ball talk one night, Ravindra Jadeja and Moeen Ali did the same another night, and Sam Curran has been consistently tight with the new ball. It’s still early days, but the Super Kings are looking like the classic yellow team that always found a way to cross the line. They have two wins in three now and are favourites to make it three wins in four. The only major worry is the form of Ruturaj Gaikwad, who has struggled in all three matches. Maybe it’s time for Robin Uthappa to have a go against his former IPL side.Related

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The Knight Riders, meanwhile, are just not getting enough from their batters. Shubman Gill has been breezy but hasn’t batted long enough. Barring the first game, it’s the same with Nitish Rana and Rahul Tripathi. Eoin Morgan is not pulling his weight as the experienced pro, Shakib Al Hasan is not scoring quickly enough, and Dinesh Karthik has struggled against spin. That has left too much for Andre Russell to do, and he has an average of 15.00 and a strike rate of 112.50 this season so far.Their bowling has been doing better than in the last season, taking more powerplay wickets and ending innings well (barring that one brilliant afternoon of batting from AB de Villiers). The jury is out: they need more from their batters if they are to avoid a hat-trick of defeats.It’s also going to be their first game in Mumbai in IPL 2021, so is there a case for Shakib to be dropped? Sunil Narine and Lockie Ferguson are frontrunners to grab that spot, depending on conditions. Harbhajan Singh, too, could be rested as the team moves away from Chennai. Either way, the Knight Riders will hope a new city brings in a change in fortunes.

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Jason Behrendorff is not yet available for the Super Kings, as he continues to serve his quarantine. He was drafted into their squad after Josh Hazlewood had pulled out.Brendon McCullum revealed after the Knight Riders’ third game that Narine was supposed to start in their first game, but a niggle was the reason for Shakib getting the nod. There’s no formal update on the Narine situation.If fit, Sunil Narine might get back into the Knight Riders’ playing XI•BCCI

Likely XIs

Kolkata Knight Riders 1 Shubman Gill, 2 Nitish Rana, 3 Rahul Tripathi, 4 Eoin Morgan (capt), 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Andre Russell, 7 Shakib Al Hasan/Sunil Narine/Lockie Ferguson, 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Harbhajan Singh/Shivam Mavi, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Prasidh KrishnaChennai Super Kings 1 Robin Uthappa/Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Moeen Ali, 4 Suresh Raina, 5 Ambati Rayudu, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Sam Curran, 8 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 9 Dwayne Bravo, 10 Shardul Thakur, 11 Deepak Chahar

Strategy punt

• There’s a case for the Super Kings to open the bowling with Shardul Thakur – instead of the Chahar-Curran combination. Thakur has bowled to Gill in three T20 innings: in 16 balls, the bowler has dismissed the batter three times.
• Narine in the XI can work well for the Knight Riders. His weakness as a batter is facing short balls from express quick bowlers, and the Super Kings pacers are not the fastest. With the ball, Narine is very successful against the Super Kings batters too. In T20s, du Plessis’ strike rate against Narine is 62, Gaikwad’s is 80, Rayudu’s is 83, Dhoni’s is 45, and Jadeja’s is 102.

Stats that matter

• Russell has never hit an IPL six at the Wankhede Stadium and averages 8.20 there. That, however, is mainly because he has struggled against the usual home team at the venue, the Mumbai Indians.
• Since IPL 2020, Gaikwad has the lowest powerplay strike rate (84) of all batters (minimum fifty runs). Uthappa has the third-highest strike rate in the first six (142.5) in the same period, behind only Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes.
• Since IPL 2019, the Super Kings have won 70% of their games when they have taken two powerplay wickets. The win-rate boosts up to 80% when they take three or more. Also, they have never lost a game when Curran has taken a powerplay wicket.
• du Plessis is one run away from becoming the sixth South Africa international to reach 6000 T20 runs. AB de Villiers, David Miller, Colin Ingram, JP Duminy and Quinton de Kock are ahead of him.

Opening batsman remains adamant he did not hit the ball that cost his wicket

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Jan-2020Dean Elgar, South Africa’s opening batsman, remains adamant that he did not hit the ball that led to his dismissal on the fourth evening in Cape Town, a moment that could yet prove to be pivotal in his side’s bid to defend their 1-0 series lead.Elgar, who admitted to a first-innings “brain-fart” after falling to Dom Bess when well set on the second afternoon, had been resolute in his defence second-time around, as he and Pieter Malan compiled a first-innings partnership of 71, South Africa’s first fifty-plus opening stand since they played Pakistan, also at Cape Town, last January.However, on 34, Elgar pushed forward with hard hands to the legspin of Joe Denly, who had been troubling him with big turn out of the left-hander’s rough. Umpire Paul Reiffel responded to England’s appeal for caught-behind, though not before a long pause for thought, and though Elgar instantly reviewed, the decision was upheld when a thin spike was detected on Ultra-Edge.It was a contentious moment – the murmur on Ultra-Edge might have been small enough to discount had the on-field decision not already been given – and speaking to Sky Sports shortly after the close, Elgar maintained that he and his team had been hard done by. “No,” he said, when asked directly whether he had hit the ball. “I wouldn’t waste the referral, knowing that I’ve nicked it. I don’t play cricket like that. I’d like to see myself as someone who will take the outs when they are definitely out, and like I said, I wouldn’t waste it on this.”It’s a little bit of an emotional time when those kind of things happen, but obviously having simmered down and watched the footage, I can still say right now I didn’t hit it.”Asked whether he trusted the technology that reached the decision in England’s favour, Elgar added: “I’m going to reserve my comments because I don’t want to get into trouble via the ICC, but as a player, I can say that I’m very confident that I didn’t hit it.”It is what it is, and it’s what creates the theatre of Test cricket, I guess,” he said. “Sometimes you have those things go your way and sometimes you don’t, and unfortunately today, when I was feeling a million dollars, it didn’t work out for us, but saying that, we’ve still got guys in the shed.”One of those is Elgar’s new opening partner, Malan – a player making his debut after a finger injury curtailed Aiden Markram’s series. He reached the close on 63 not out, after a doughty start to an innings that has now spanned more than three hours.”It’s awesome to see him performing,” said Elgar. “I know he’s spent a lot of time on the sidelines – not playing for South Africa A, and maybe not cracking into the Test side. It’s been hard work for him but I know he’s putting a lot of hard yards in and it’s awesome to see him perform like he did today.”As for the match situation, Elgar said that South Africa would be taking the final day of their rearguard “ball by ball”, when they resume 312 runs adrift with eight wickets standing.”I think we’ve about 540 balls and we’re going to try and break it up per the batsman,” he said. “We just need maybe two or three guys to come in and really grind it out. We’ve got batters in the shed that can do it and the wicket’s playing quite nicely. The biggest thing you’ve got to do is start well on this wicket and once you back your defence. I think you can negate most things.”Jacques Kallis, South Africa’s batting consultant, also recognised Elgar’s dismissal as a potentially crucial moment in the contest.”He was disappointed but that’s the rub of the green. He thought he was a little bit unlucky,” Kallis said.When asked whether Elgar was disappointed because he thought he hadn’t hit the ball or because the edge had been found, Kallis said: “If I tell the truth, I might get into trouble. Or I might get a fine.”

A 170-run opening stand between Alex Doolan and Jordan Silk has given the Tigers a fighting chance after all but erasing an enormous first-innings deficit against Victoria

The Report by Alex Malcolm18-Nov-2018Alex Doolan plays one on the off side•Getty Images

A 170-run opening stand between Tasmania pair Alex Doolan and Jordan Silk has given the Tigers a fighting chance after all but erasing an enormous first-innings deficit against Victoria at Bellerive Oval.The Tigers began their second innings 201 runs behind the visitors. Doolan and Silk, however, enjoyed some good batting conditions to put together Tasmania’s biggest opening stand of the season and close within 31 runs of the lead.Doolan made 94 from 119 balls with 11 fours and a six. He seemed destined for his second century of the season but was caught behind edging a very short-and-wide ball from Peter Siddle.Nonetheless, Doolan has scored more runs than anyone else in the Sheffield Shield this season thus far. It was his fifth score of 50-plus for the season, and the second time in consecutive matches he has fallen in the 90s after making 115 in the opening match of the season.Silk remained unbeaten on 77 at stumps after the Tigers also lost Beau Webster late in the day.Earlier, Victoria’s tail helped the visitors build the 201-run lead. Peter Siddle, Scott Boland and Jon Holland added 83 for the last two wickets. Siddle was the last man out for 42 after he and Holland put on 50 for the 10th wicket. Tigers quick Riley Meredith finished with 4 for 61, his best figures in his four-game Shield career to date.

Iyer, Parthiv hit half-centuries as India A extend lead to 149 at stumps

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Oct-2017Prakash Parsekar

Ankit Bawne’s 16th first-class century, an unbeaten 116, helped India A sustain their domination over New Zealand A on the second day of the second unofficial Test – a pink-ball day game – in Vijayawada. Bawne helped build the platform set by Shreyas Iyer’s 79-ball 82 as India A ended on 360 for 4, a lead of 149, when bad light forced an early end to proceedings.Bawne, who replaced Hanuma Vihari in the XI, and Parthiv Patel, coming in place of Rishabh Pant, added 154 unbroken runs for the fifth wicket. Parthiv, playing his first game for India A in nine years, was unbeaten on 56. Bawne, who has a first-class average of 51.17 over 72 matches, was the aggressor, hitting 13 fours and five sixes during his as yet unbeaten 166-ball stay.Priyank Panchal and Karun Nair, the captain, failed to convert their starts and were out for 46 and 43 respectively. Iyer, who struck a counter-attacking century in India A’s victory in the first Test last week, added 133 for the second wicket with Panchal, before New Zealand A struck twice in quick succession to have a sniff at 142 for 3. That would become 206 for 4 when Ish Sodhi had Nair caught and bowled. But the visitors were to be denied for the next 28 overs.

A shoulder injury has ruled out Mustafizur Rahman from the remainder of Sussex’s group phase matches in the Royal London One-Day Cup and NatWest T20 Blast

Mohammad Isam27-Jul-2016A shoulder injury has ruled out Mustafizur Rahman from the remainder of Sussex’s group phase matches in the Royal London One-Day Cup and NatWest T20 Blast.Mustafizur has a SLAP tear (an injury to the labrum, which is the cartilage around the socket of the shoulder joint) in his left shoulder. He had an MRI taken a couple of days ago, after he missed Sussex’s latest one-day game. The BCB has asked him to do more tests, and it is still undecided whether he will return to Dhaka within the week. BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury said on Wednesday that the board will wait for another medical assessment before deciding on what he should do next.”He has to undergo another assessment today, after which we will be able to know whether he will stay back in the UK for further medical attention or if he will return to Bangladesh,” Chowdhury told ESPNcricinfo.The Sussex county side said in a statement that, “the 20-year-old is suffering from a shoulder injury, and, under the direction of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, is due to have a scan this week to ascertain whether or not he will be fit enough to play in any knockout matches should Sussex qualify for the latter stages of either competition”.According to BCB’s media chairman Jalal Yunus, a fresh MRI can give an indication on the treatment process.
“He will need another MRI to understand the exact nature of his injury,” Yunus said. “There’s some extra fluid on his shoulder. The MRI will tell us what he should be doing thereafter – an injection or a surgery. We will hear the advice of the specialists in the UK and our doctors and physio.”Mustafizur, who arrived late in Sussex’s one-day and T20 campaigns, took four wickets in his first match for the county before going wicketless in his second outing. He was scheduled to play at least five more games in the group phase of both competitions.

A second match in 24 hours was a step too far for Leicestershire as their NatWest T20 Blast challenge took a blow with a six-wicket defeat by Worcestershire at New Road.

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ScorecardDaryl Mitchell shook off a nasty blow to play the match-winning innings•Getty Images

A second match in 24 hours was a step too far for Leicestershire as their NatWest T20 Blast challenge took a blow with a six-wicket defeat by Worcestershire at New Road.Daryl Mitchell was the home side’s wounded matchwinner, accelerating to the only half-century of the evening after taking a fearful crack on his right arm early in the reply to Leicestershire’s total of 147 for 6.Early in his innings Worcestershire’s captain was unable to dodge a thunderous straight drive by his partner, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, but with his elbow strapped up, he was able to lead a well-paced victory charge with 58 from 47 balls.Three of his six fours came after Worcestershire had gone through almost eight overs without a boundary and when he was dismissed by Rob Taylor, thin edging a cut behind the wicket, Ben Cox and Ross Whiteley wrapped up a first T20 Blast win of the season with 14 balls to spare.

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Daryl Mitchell demonstrated the immense value of experience guiding Worcestershire to victory. Between the end of the Powerplay, which Worcestershire exited 50 for 2 and the third ball of the thirteenth over, a period of 45 balls, Worcestershire didn’t hit a single boundary and the required run rate climbed from 7 to 8.85.
A younger player may have panicked, but Mitchell with 98 T20 appearances, kept his head, and he only fell after striking three fours in eight balls to bring the required run rate back to seven. An explosive cameo from Ross Whiteley finished the job.
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Ben Cox justified his promotion up the order with an unbeaten 30 from 26 deliveries and Ross Whiteley was simply brutal in finishing it off a four and two sixes off Ben Raine. The former Derbyshire batsman needed only 11 balls to make 26 not out.From Leicestershire’s point of view, the finish was abrupt and probably unexpected after their bowlers apparently held the upper hand.There were wickets for Taylor, Raine and Nigar Jaik as the boundaries dried up after Colin Munro had hit a six off the first ball he faced in his first competitive innings in 66 days. However the New Zealand allrounder was soon stumped for 11.A string of heavy showers blew away and gave away to a sunny evening as Leicestershire posted what would have been seen as a reasonably competitive score on a sluggish surface.After losing the toss, it was became a struggle for anyone to play a truly dominant innings. Mark Cosgrove, with 27 from 24 balls, and Grant Elliott, with 33 from 32, were as comfortable as anyone and Tom Wells got them close to 150 with an unbeaten 26 from 14, including a pull for six in the final over from Joe Leach.Ned Eckersley was the only player among the top seven to miss out on double figures when caught at mid-wicket in Jack Shantry’s second over but Leicestershire took 56 off the power play for the loss of only one more wicket, Kevin O’Brien falling leg-before to England Under-19 allrounder Ed Barnard.Worcestershire’s spinners then dragged the rate back for a while. Raine holed out at midwicket from D’Oliveira’s first ball and Sachithra Senanayake claimed the big prize when Cosgrove gave a catch to short cover from the Sri Lankan’s second delivery.The Australian’s departure was followed by the one substantial partnership as Elliott and Niall O’Brien put on 50 in 7.5 overs before they were pegged back in quick succession.After making 26 from 25 balls, O’Brien was caught at deep square leg in a good containing spell by Mitchell and Elliott steered Barnard to short third man.