Eagles And Victoria Qualify To the Next Stage

Wayamba Elevens Vs Victorian Bushrangers

It is Delhi again and couple of low scoring games again. Apart from Virender Sehwag and Dinesh Kartick no other player has looked like dominating the bowling throughout the championship on feroz shah kotla.Wayamba needed not just a win but a win with a bigger margin to edge Victorian bushrangers out in order to qualify.A Brilliant beginning by Jeevantha Kulatunga and Michael Vandort provided the foundation to Wayamba for posting an above par score. Opener Mahela Udawatte lost his wicket in a bid to increase the runrate but Kulatunga and Vandort steered the innings with a partnership of 81 runs. They batted with intent and the Wayamba camp looked firmly in control until the dismissal of Vandort.The rest couldn't cope with the wicket.Victorian Bushrangers never looked like the were into the chase, seemed contempt with achieving the 85 Runs needed for qualification into the next stage.

	Wayamba innings (20 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	HGJM Kulatunga	c McDonald b McKay	41	39	3	2	105.12
	14.6 easily done, lands on a good length on the off, walks across and chips it straight down long-on's throat 88/3
	ML Udawatte	lbw b Siddle	1	4	0	0	25.00
	1.6 plumb! Round the wicket and bowled full on middle, Udawatte's eyes lit up, went for a big swing over midwicket, missed and was struck in line. 4/1
	MG Vandort	b McKay	42	44	3	1	95.45
	14.1 bowled'im! Full on leg stump, was in the slot, tried to swing through the line, missed, was a touch too quick and the stumps were knocked back 85/2
	DPMD Jayawardene†	c Blizzard b McDonald	3	6	0	0	50.00
	17.1 big wicket! The slower one does the trick again, full outside off, makes room and tries to clear long-on, hits it extremely high, didn't get much timing on it, Blizzard waited ages for it to come down but took it comfortably in the end at long-on 99/6
	J Mubarak*	b Harwood	10	7	2	0	142.85
	16.3 timber! Short of a good length on the off, held its line, made room and tried to swing it over midwicket, kept a little low, he missed and the stumps were sent cartwheeling towards the keeper 99/4
	KS Lokuarachchi	b Harwood	0	3	0	0	0.00
	16.6 a beautiful slow legcutter, the batsman was already through with his shot by the time the ball got to him, deceived completely by the lack of pace and the off stump was knocked back 99/5
	NLTC Perera	c Quiney b McDonald	6	2	0	1	300.00
	17.3 the wickets are falling in a hurry now, short outside off, swats it straight into the palms of Quiney at long-on 105/7
	MF Maharoof	b Harwood	1	5	0	0	20.00
	18.4 it gets worse, three for Harwood, the slower one again, short and was into the attempted swing too early, missed and was castled 108/8
	HMRKB Herath	run out (McKay/†Wade)	3	3	0	0	100.00
	18.6 from Harwood, run-out, short of a length on the off, cut down to third man, runs back hard for the second but the throw is accurate and the keeper takes off the bails in time to find Herath short of his ground, McKay the fielder there 110/9
	UWMBCA Welegedara	not out	7	5	1	0	140.00
	BAW Mendis	not out	1	2	0	0	50.00
	Extras	(lb 3)	3
	Total	(9 wickets; 20 overs)	118	(5.90 runs per over)

Victoria innings (target: 119 runs from 20 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	RJ Quiney	c & b Welegedara	0	3	0	0	0.00
	0.3 superb catch! Threw himself to his left and plucked it out inches from the ground as Quiney drove it hard straight back towards him, just the start Wayamba wanted 0/1
	BJ Hodge	not out	44	52	2	1	84.61
	AC Blizzard	c Mendis b Welegedara	6	7	1	0	85.71
	4.2 gone! Bowled it full on the off and he went at it hard, trying to clear mid-off but couldn't connect well, it struck the toe end of the bat and lobbed straight to mid-off at the edge of the circle 17/2
	DJ Hussey	b Maharoof	7	22	0	0	31.81
	10.6 got him! Bowled it short at 130.7 kmph, went for the pull, he was frustrated, tried to play it through midwicket, got an inside edge onto the stumps 45/3
	CL White*	c Perera b Mendis	11	20	0	1	55.00
	15.4 tossed it up on middle, tries to clear long-off, it was pitched up, but he didn't get hold of it, got plenty of elevation and Perera did a good job running in from long-off 68/4
	AB McDonald	not out	27	16	4	1	168.75
	Extras	(b 2, lb 5, w 1)	8
	Total	(4 wickets; 20 overs)	103	(5.15 runs per over)

Eagles v Sussex

Low Scoring matches can be the most thrilling,if you had watched yesterdays match between sussex and eagles you wouldn't bet against it either.Sussex sharks looked to char less about the wicket and started playing their shots from the start.Instead of looking to time the ball sussex batsmen tried to muscle them to boundary, which makes it even harder to manuvre the ball on the low and slow pitches.Sussex with Ed Joyce and Joe Gatting chipping in with some useful scores reached 119 in the end. Eagles started their innings expectionally well aided by some luck they were 72 for no loss.Rilee Rossouw was playing a little gem of an innings his highest T20 score.He may be only 20 years of age but showed a lot of maturity during the start of the innings but when it mattered ended up falling the same trap of trying to hit the ball than time it as the ball got older.Piyush Chawla and Hamilton were spinning the sharks back into the game.The boundaries began to dry up and even with only 4 fielders inside the circle the eagles found it difficult to score even singles.Yasir Arafat was given the responsibility of bowling the last over of the innings with eagles needing 12 runs to win.The Stars were with Eagles when the fourth ball of the over went for four with an out faithful french cut.With 5 runs needed of 2 balls
Yasir bowled a dot ball right on the money.Eagles needed 5 runs to win from 1 ball,Arafat drops it on a length, Ryan Mclaren clubbed it to the wide long-on boundary. The match ended in a tie.It was the first tie of CLT20.It's an Eliminator to decide who goes through, what a thriller. Each team nominates three batsmen and one bowler, if they lose two wickets the innings (of six balls) is considered over.Eagles were batting first in eliminator over with Rossouw and Mclaren managing to get 9 runs with yasirr arafat bowling the over.Dwayne smith and Luke wright were the batting pair for Sussex sharks and CJ de Villiers the bowler.The first two balls of the final over enough for CJ de Villiers to seal the victory for Eagles by cleaning up both Smith and Brown.Sussex lost 2 wickets without scoring there by making Eagles go through to the next round.Eagles lost only one wicket for 9 runs in their super eliminator over.

	Sussex innings (20 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	CD Nash	c Mpitsang b du Preez	7	10	1	0	70.00
	3.6 Nash follows Wright back to the pavilion, looking to clear mid-on, he doesn't get enough behind the stroke after dancing down the track, Mpitsang takes it at head height 29/2
	LJ Wright	b de Villiers	19	12	1	2	158.33
	2.4 Wright is gone, he had been looking to hit straight so far this over, perhaps because of the long-on he looks to swipe this towards midwicket, he misses, the ball knocks over offstump 23/1
	RJ Hamilton-Brown	c & b de Villiers	6	5	1	0	120.00
	4.3 this is a day for great caught-and-bowled catches, superb take from du Preez, Hamilton-Brown has to go, a mistimed cross-batted shot goes low towards the bowler, who has to change direction in his follow-through and takes it to his right inches from the ground 33/3
	EC Joyce	run out (de Villiers/R McLaren)	21	34	1	0	61.76
	18.1 from R McLaren, Joyce's innings has come to an end, again he backed away towards leg, again he could only punch it to mid-on, where de Villiers klatches onto the ball and throws it to the bowler, who takes off the bails with Joyce well out, no third umpire needed 102/6
	DR Smith	b Mpitsang	9	15	1	0	60.00
	8.1 Mpitsang gets a big breakthrough, Dwayne Smith is gone, he was looking to swing that to cow corner, gets a thin inside-edge and the ball deflects onto the stumps 49/4
	MH Yardy*	b Bailey	12	14	2	0	85.71
	12.4 Bailey gets a wicket in his first over, Yardy is bowled as he tries to cut a ball that is very close to offstump, chopped onto the stumps 73/5
	JS Gatting	c R McLaren b du Preez	25	22	1	1	113.63
	19.1 Gatting holes out, looks to smash that one into the crowd behind long-on, but can only find Ryan McLaren there 113/7
	PP Chawla	not out	9	7	1	0	128.57
	Yasir Arafat	not out	1	1	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(b 5, lb 4, w 1)	10
	Total	(7 wickets; 20 overs)	119	(5.95 runs per over)

	Eagles innings (target: 120 runs from 20 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	RR Rossouw	c †Hodd b Hamilton-Brown	65	62	7	2	104.83
	18.4 Sussex continue to believe, Riley Rossouw is gone, mishitting the ball after charging out, it swirls high and to his right, the keeper calls for it and takes the catch 106/4
	AP McLaren	lbw b Chawla	16	28	1	0	57.14
	11.1 this time McLaren is gone, he misses another attempted sweep, and is struck in front of middle 72/1
	MN van Wyk†	c Joyce b Chawla	2	7	0	0	28.57
	13.3 van Wyk is gone, is there a South African choke here? he swings a length ball down the throat of long-off 79/2
	HH Dippenaar*	b Hamilton-Brown	7	7	1	0	100.00
	16.2 Dippenaar is bowled, he was down the track looking to heave that to the leg side, misses and the middle stump is knocked back 93/3
	R McLaren	not out	14	13	2	0	107.69
	D du Preez	not out	3	3	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(b 7, lb 2, w 3)	12
	Total	(4 wickets; 20 overs)	119	(5.95 runs per over)