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no run
length and just outside off, 147.9kph, punched into the covers
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looks to clear mid-off again, but the bowler's adjusted his length. Slams it into a length just outside off. Saha backs away for another loft, but that keeps getting big on him and he can only end up lofting it like they do at catching practice. Mid-off takes it easily. Falls short of a hundred by 13 runs, but he has done a fantastic job tonight in a more familiar role
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FOUR runs
gently lofted wide of mid-off. Full and into leg stump. Takes stance down leg side with the stumps exposed and then waits on this drive and opens the face late
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1 run
full and just outside off, front leg clear as he nails this drive along the ground. Long-on cleans up to his left
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FOUR runs
backs away and ramps to third man. Slower short ball rising at off stump, Walks into the leg side and deliberately stabs between keeper and short third
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1 run
short outside off, steps out and gets an under-edge on the pull
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no run
short of a length and down leg side. Backs away and pulls, this slides through from under the shot
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1 run
short and rising in the corridor. Miscued pull to long-on's left
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2 runs
slower short ball wide outside off, pulled to long-on's right
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SIX runs
sweet sound on the pull over midwicket. Short of a length and just outside off. Backs away and times it perfectly. Picks his spot well too. There's no one back on the boundary and this dips into the boundary padding on the full
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4 leg byes
deflected off the body and into the third man boundary. It's a slower short ball at off stump. He's through the attempted pull early. It hits the him on the right shoulder and trickles past the keeper
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1 run
short of a length on middle stump, gets behind that and nudges into midwicket
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1 run
just short of third man. Full and just outside off, looks to go inside-out over cover, ends up slicing it a bit too much
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2 runs
short of a length and just outside off. Cuts aerially to third man's right
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no run
good length and into leg stump. Looks to flick aerially and cops that in the mid-riff
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1 run
good length and just outside off, steps out and punches to deep extra cover
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FOUR runs
oh lovely placement. They brought cover in and put extra cover out. Saha backs away and punches this length ball to that deep fielder's left off the back foot. Rabada gets a hand on it too with a dive to his left. Manages to push it into the padding with the momentum
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1 run
short of a length and outside off, cut to sweeper's left
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3 runs
good length and into leg stump, shuffles into the off side, exposes the stumps and gets a delicate ramp to the keeper's left. Ashwin gives chase and takes an inelegant tumble
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SIX runs
length outside off, leans in and sweeps aerially to the midwicket boundary
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no run
good length and just outside off, steps out and drives to extra cover
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1 leg bye
full slower ball just past leg stump. Looks to flick and cops that on the pad as it dips on him
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3 runs
mistimed lofted drive. To mid-off's left. Good length and into middle stump. Makes room and drives on the up, but the bat turns in his hand. Iyer gives chase and pulls it in
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1 run
low full toss at off stump, leans in and flicks to deep square
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FOUR runs
caressed to the point boundary. Short of a length just outside off, waits on that with the feet static, and then opens the face late to punch this to point's left
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FOUR runs
places the pull to deep square's right for his fifty. This is no flash in the pan, Saha has a superb IPL record as an opener. And in his first game as opener, he's cashed in. Short of a length ball into leg stump, he's cramped a touch but manages to pull from under it and bisect the two fielders in the deep
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1 run
short of a length and just outside off, off the floor as he opens the face and guides to third man
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FOUR runs
one-handed swipe to the long leg boundary. This looks like a knuckle ball, good length and moving away from middle stump. He got low and well forward in reaching out for this. Bottom hand came off as he swept
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2 runs
good length and turning away just outside off. Punched on the up to sweeper's right
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OUT
taken at extra cover. Slows it way down this time, Ashwin, and manages to find some grip and turn. Warner looking to hit this full leg-stump ball with the angle, into the leg side. Ends up slicing it as it turns away and it's an easy catch. Top bowling that to end one of the best knocks of the season
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FOUR runs
long-off does well to get a hand but only manages to swat it into the boundary padding to his left. Length ball pushed through fast and he made room to slap this on the up. Nortje ran to his left and looked to push that in on the half-volley with his left hand
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1 run
good length on middle stump, gets forward and flicks to deep square
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no run
length and just outside off, onto the back foot and punches straight to extra cover
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1 run
short and into leg stump, aerial pull to deep square's right
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1 run
full and just outside off, poked out to mid-off
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2 runs
full and just outside off, driven to mid-off's right and his throw at the non-striker's end is misfielded by the fielder backing up at square leg. They get an extra run
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1 run
full and just outside off. Makes room to try and drive to mid-off's left. Doesn't connect well enough
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1 run
full and just outside off, hangs leg side of that and lifts this cover drive to sweeper's left
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1 run
low full toss at leg stump, flicked to deep square
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2 runs
good length on leg stump, pushed to deep square's right with soft hands
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1 run
short of a length at off stump, backs away and cuts to sweeper's left
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1 run
good length and sliding into the corridor, backs away and punches to sweeper's left
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FOUR runs
elegant. He's a good player of spin, this guy. Steps out and meets the length ball on its pitch outside off and lifts his drive over the bowler
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2 runs
good length outside off, gets forward and low and sweeps to deep square's left
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1 run
full and into off stump, leans in and flicks to deep square
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1 run
full and into middle stump. Looks for the flick, gets an inside edge onto pad that deflects into the covers
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FOUR runs
full and just outside off, gets low and sweeps sweetly off the middle, all along the ground to deep square's left
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no run
good length and just outside off, pushed back to the bowler off the front foot
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no run
good length at middle stump, steps out for the flick, cops it on the body
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FOUR runs
good length and just outside off, waits on it this time and opens the face late to steer this to short third man's elft
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FOUR runs
slashed to the backward this man boundary for the fifty! Oh this is some birthday bash for Warner. A 25-ball half-century. This is on a length and pushed wide of him and he reaches out with an open face. There is a sweeper point but he won't get close
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SIX runs
launched it over wide long-on! Short of a length and at middle stump again. This time he doesn't defend - makes room instead and takes him on with the pull and nails the connection this time
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no run
good length and cramped on off stump, defended into the off side
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FOUR runs
slapped over extra cover. Good length and pushed wide outside off. Front leg in the leg side, arms reaching way outside off and lifted on the rise
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FOUR runs
swatted to mid-on's right. Short and just outside off, goes horizontal bat and across the angle with the pull. It's not off the middle but there's enough
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FOUR runs
punched wide of mid-off and beats his sprint too. Good length and into middle stump. Had to jump quickly into the leg side to make room, but did it well enough for the power into the punch
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2 runs
good length on leg stump, whipped to long-on's left off the back foot
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no run
dropped short and wide, waits on that and hits the cut straight to extra cover
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1 run
good length and into leg stump. Pulled aerially to deep square's left
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1 run
good length at middle stump, backs away and punches to long-on off the back foot
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1 leg bye
short of a length and into the legs, looks to tickle that fine, cops it on the thigh guard for a run to short fine's right
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2 runs
good length and into leg stump, uses the angle to deep square's left
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FOUR runs
slower short ball wide outside off, quick feet as he jumps out to reach that and then cut it between backward point and cover
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FOUR runs
crunches it past the bowler. Warner again with the front leg well out of the way, and this is a full ball just outside off
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2 runs
good length and into the pads. Uses the angle to flick this aerially over midwicket. Safely wide of deep square
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FOUR runs
steps across and swipes this through the backward square region. Good length at middle and off, decent stride out and a nice swing through that
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2 runs
sliced over point. Length ball wide outside off and he opens the face to try and clear the covers off the front foot
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1 run
good length at off stump, punched to long-off, off the back foot
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SIX runs
stays still this time and uses the angle to swipe this over square leg. Good length and onto leg stump. Got the front leg across and swept from under that
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no run
short of a length and sliding into his body again as he looks to open up the covers with a punch
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no run
good length and sliding into leg stump. Looks to to back away and punch through cover but finds extra
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1 run
good length and just outside off, allows it on and jabs it to third man's left. Slips at the other end as he thinks of the second
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1 run
full at off stump, looks to drive on the rise and gets it off the thick inside edge to mid-on
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2 runs
just clears cover. Length ball outside off, gets a stride out and looks to lift that over the infield on the up, but that comes off the toe end and plonks into the turf past the back-pedaling Stoinis
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FOUR runs
flicked past square leg. Full and into the pads. Waits on that and flicks aerially, but safely to the diving fielder's right
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FOUR runs
inside edge past the keeper and into the fine leg boundary. Good length and just outside off, reaches out at that and looks to drive on the up. Possibly through the leg side. Didn't get anywhere near it
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3 runs
swiped over mid-on. Good length and just outside off. Keeps the front leg in the leg side and swings across the line. It comes off the inside half. Deshpande pulls it back in with a slide at the boundary
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no run
beaten on the edge. Short of a length and rising up in the corridor as he feels for it
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FOUR runs
hurried pull but a controlled one in the end. This is short of a length and into his body. Pulled off the high part and well to fine leg's left
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no run
short of a length and curving away outside off, mistimed punch on the up
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1 run
good length and just outside off, punched into the covers off the back foot. A direct hit at the striker's end from Axar Patel. It deflects towards the midwicket boundary but Saha's gone a long way after grounding his bat and the chance of a second is gone
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no run
good length and just outside off, angled in. Defended to midwicket off the inside half
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no run
full and into off stump, watchfully pushed into the covers
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1 run
sealed with a leg-bye. That is five straight wins. Short of a length again, quick again, but they run off the thigh pad. There might have been an inside edge because the umpire hasn't ruled this a leg-bye
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1 run
nearly a run-out. Short of a length, just outside off, he opens the face, but the point is in close. Pooran has to go back, but they will get the overthrow
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1 run
short of a length, quick, runs this down to third man for one
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no run
full, fast, 147ks, some movement away. Beats the outside edge
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OUT
massive slower ball. At 122ks. He is looking to leave it, but it is still there in front of his face. So he looks to ramp it, but ends up gloving it to short third man. Stand up and applaud another Gayle special. The game was in the balance when he came out to bat. The game is no more now
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SIX runs
and Mandeep celebrates this performance with a six. Again Cummins misses his yorker mark by a few inches, and this time he goes to his favourite area: over midwicket
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no run
bouncer, looks to ramp it away, but it is too high. Not called a wide
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FOUR runs
just short of the yorker length, and he goes over extra cover for four more. Hit off the cue, but has enough in it to clear the infield
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no run
looks to move around in the crease, and Cummins slips in a wide yorker to earn a dot
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1 run
another yorker, dug out for one to long-on
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no run
starts off with the perfect yorker, in front of off. Dug out back to him
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1 leg bye
looks to pull this short ball, it skids on to his his thigh pad and go away for a leg-bye
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1 run
slower ball, nearly a yorker, dug out for one
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1 run
short of a length again, inside edge, just short and wide of the keeper. That is the fifty. He flashes the big smile and "The Boss" sign on the back of his bat. And this time it is written the right way, and not upside-down
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no run
even shorter than last ball, and somehow manages to stay full of the pulling length. Defended
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SIX runs
oh Gayle at his best. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this ball except that it is bowled to Universe Boss. Short of a length, rib-high, 140-plus ks, and still he punches this over mid-off for a six. That is extraordinary
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FOUR runs
lovely bouncer at 146ks, gets it shoulder high, but the top edge goes fine of fine leg for four
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