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Avishka, Kohler-Cadmore fire Jaffna Kings to second successive LPL title

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Jaffna Kings 201 score 3 (Avishka 63, Kohler Kadmore 57) defeated the Galle Gladiators (Gunathilaka 54, Chaturanga 2-15, Hasaranga 2-30) 23 points with 178 points

Avishka Fernando and Rahmanullah Gurbaz staged a manic opening show in the 2021 Lanka Premier League (LPL) final against the Galle Gladiators. Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shoaib Malik and Thisara Perera combined the total score of the Jaffna Kings It improved to 201 to 3, and then their superb offense brought the game to an end.

On Thursday, Maheesh Theekshana (arguably the best bowler in the tournament) and Jayden Seales (the best fastball player in the LPL) ran because Danushka Gunathilaka made a terrible opening volley, which made the Gladiators The chase started the Rockets boost. But the Kings have many good pitchers, one of which is Wanindu Hasaranga. He had a crucial combo, and overall it was an excellent spell. Suranga Lakmal and Chaturanga de Silva also provided nervous spells. The Gladiators were tenacious, but the Kings defended easily and won with 23 points.

Since the last LPL, the ownership change has been controversial, but Jaffna has now won the first two LPLs. Thisara Perera led them to two victories. Theekshana, Hasaranga, and Lakmal are all valuable assets in these two battles. The following year, former Sri Lankan batsman Tirina Kandanby formed an excellent team and took the helm of the best tactical aspects of the game. Gulbaz had a mediocre performance in the first five games of the LPL, but he was a hit in the league. After the game, he performed well in powerplay again.

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He got his first boundary due to a mistake at the end of the first round, but then broke out, hitting three six-pointers in a row, and four of the next seven pitches, giving the Kings The round went into high gear, from which it was never really closed. He eventually got into trouble in the face of Summit Patel’s shrewd left arm rotation, but his 18 shots and 35 points helped the Kings score 61 points in a strong game. In the qualifiers on Tuesday, Fernando played arguably the best game of the tournament against the Dambulla Giants in an impressive final in order to maintain the momentum of the Kings in the early midfield. . He did not slacken in the strong game, hitting five boundaries, but continued to be effective against the Gladiator’s spinner, clearing the boundary against Patel, and later clearing Pulina Tharanga’s leg spin.

When Nuwan Thatushara caught him 63-41 in the 13th game, the Kings still led by more than 10 points. In the course of the game, the top five of the Kings have been ruthless, they are all the bats they need to get another total of more than 200. Kohler-Cadmore’s 57 did not go out and 41 helped the side to push through the midfield. Then Thisara, the most explosive batsman in the tournament, hit two six-pointers and one four-pointer at the beginning of the final, collecting 17 of the nine balls.

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KL Rahul dangerously close to Laxman territory; to be perished for Sarfaraz Khan and Shubman Gill

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KL Rahul dangerously close to Laxman territory; to be perished for Sarfaraz Khan and Shubman Gill

To accommodate both Sarfaraz and Gill and stick with their five-bowler formula, a batter from the Bengaluru Test must make way. Ergo Rahul and the predicted axe

VVS Laxman went through the first half of his illustrious 15-and-a-half-year international career with the proverbial axe hanging over him. Despite his magical stroke-play and a well-founded reputation for rallying the lower order to bat above itself, he was forever the first name that sprang to the decision-makers’ minds when they had to drop someone to accommodate someone else. It wasn’t until the second half of his stint with the national team that he had ‘job security’, which automatically manifested itself in an array of glorious, match-turning knocks and earmarked him as one for a crisis.

KL Rahul is now dangerously close to approaching the Laxman territory, though at least in this instance, a case can be made out, perhaps, for why he often seems to be playing for his place. Almost a decade after his Test debut in Australia in December 2014, he has yet to nail down a permanent spot, a result of glaring inconsistency and repeated dalliances with injuries that have left him with a modest average of 33.87 from 53 Test appearances.

Unlike Laxman, who was thrust to the opener’s position for three years from 1997, successive team managements have worked overtime to create space for Rahul. He started off in the middle order in Melbourne against Australia, opened in the next Test in Sydney when he made a sparkling century, continued in that position for a good nine years – around the large pockets when either injuries or lack of form relegated him to the sidelines – and now seems to have found his calling in the middle order, where he was tried out in an almost last throw of the dice in South Africa last December.

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In his limited time at the No. 6 position, Rahul has been a revelation. On a spiteful surface in Centurion in his first innings back in the middle order, the classy right-hander made a marvellous 101 – Virat Kohli’s 38 was the next highest score – in India’s 245 all out. Two Tests later, against England in Hyderabad, he waltzed to 86 of the best until a hamstring strain kept him out of the last four Tests.

On his comeback last month against Bangladesh, Rahul showed why he is rated so highly, and therefore why he so frustrates when he chooses to shackle himself mentally, with uninhibited shot-making when India were pressing for a declaration (Chennai) and looking to make up for lost time with a frenetic batting approach (Kanpur) in the two Tests. Kanpur was especially mesmeric, 68 flowing off his bat in a mere 43 deliveries. It was the best of Rahul.

Axe hangs over Rahul’s head for India vs New Zealand 2nd Test

And yet here we are, two innings later, wondering whether he will, or should, feature in the playing XI in Pune, where India take on New Zealand in a must-win second Test from Thursday.

Shubman Gill, him of three centuries in his last six Tests, missed the Bengaluru defeat to the Kiwis with a stiff neck. Replacement batter Sarfaraz Khan made the most of own good fortune with a delectable 150, which makes it near impossible to drop him now that Gill is fully fit. To accommodate both Sarfaraz and Gill and stick with their five-bowler formula which has worked beautifully in the last few years, a batter from the Bengaluru Test must make way. Ergo Rahul and the predicted axe.

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One of the few men to have led India in all three formats internationally, Rahul didn’t help his cause with scores of 0 and 12 at his home ground, the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. In the first innings, he was strangled down leg-side by William O’Rourke while in the second, he received a peach from the same paceman operating with the second new ball and was again caught behind. Rahul was one of 11 failures in India’s first-innings 46 and one of seven wickets to fall in 93 deliveries to the second new cherry, but failures past and the logjam created by Gill’s availability have combined to identify him as the most susceptible to the axe.

It’s a cross impossible to bear, but also impossible to ignore just because it is so heavy, so overarching. Rahul is beyond gifted and makes batting appear oh-so-simple, but his struggles to embrace sustained run-making can’t be wished away. He is the eternal team man, much like his celebrated namesake also from Karnataka – both kept wickets admirably in 50-over World Cups 21 years apart, both made attractive and impactful runs during the tournament and both tasted bitter defeat at the hands of Australia in the final – but ‘eternal team man’ can sometimes be an euphemism for the ‘most dispensable’ and Rahul can be excused for thinking that those two lines have blurred beyond repair. Of course, if he is brutally honest to himself, he will acknowledge at least to himself that he too must bear culpability for the blurring of the lines.

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