Player of the Match
Player of the Match
2123dThe Report by Abhishek Purohit

Symes puts Lions in semis after tense chase

Jean Symes, on 6 off 16, slammed four of his next six deliveries for boundaries to carry Lions to the knockouts of the Champions League Twenty20 in a tense chase

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

Q de Kock
Q de Kock
32(35) 2x4 - 2x6
Control %81%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 19 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
6 0 4 3 11 6 0 2
PA Jaques
31(29) 5x4 - 0x6
Control %70%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull/hook on back foot
  • 9 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
0 0 7 6 10 7 0 1

Best performances - Bowlers

SA Patterson
O3.2
M0
R21
W2
Eco6.30
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
AM Phangiso
AM Phangiso
O4
M0
R23
W2
Eco5.75
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: Sanjay Murari

Jean Symes is ecstatic, and why not? Alviro Petersen is much more composed, a wide grin and some polite clapping from him to celebrate the victory.

Lions made it needlessly tight, with some muddle-headed batting in the second half of the innings, but Symes stepped up in the final two overs to seal it. It has been the highest quality of cricket on display today.

Varun: "6 of first 16 and 21 of next 6......Symes has done a MS to knock MS' side out !"

Freddy notes: "Good old T20 lesson for Yorkshire. Your best bowler should always bowl the 19th over during the chase."

Andrew Gale: "I thought we were 20 runs light at the halfway stage, but we bowled well and took it to the final over. We are missing some of our main players from the domestic competition, but it has been a great experience for our guys."

Alviro Petersen: "I thought the bowling was excellent, the batting... I thought we could do more. We discussed halfway through the game that DL could be a factor, towards the end they bowled some dot balls, but there were some calm heads out there."

Man of the Match is Jean Symes: "It was a bit of a challenge coming in and not being able to hit off the middle straight up. I would like to hit it a little bit cleaner and get a faster start."

Husain: "So the rest of the games in this group are dead...?" Yes. that isn't stopping Kanishkaa Balachandran from doing the commentary for Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings. Cheer him up here.

19.2
4
Patterson to Symes, FOUR, it's over, Lions are through, and knock out Chennai, Mumbai and Yorkshire, launches this length ball over mid-on for four, Sydney and Lions qualify for the semi-finals, only dead rubbers remain in this group
19.1
4
Patterson to Symes, FOUR, a low full toss on legstump, superb delivery, inside edged past the leg stump, and past the keeper for four, Lions nearly home and dry now

END OF OVER:
19 | 14 Runs | LIONS: 126/5 (6 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 6.63, RRR: 6.00)

  • Jean Symes19 (20b)
  • Thami Tsolekile4 (8b)
  • Oliver Hannon-Dalby4-0-35-1
  • Iain Wardlaw4-1-23-1

Can't be too harsh on Hannon-Dalby, this is his first T20 game

18.6
1
Hannon-Dalby to Symes, 1 run, slices this towards sweeper cover, a miscue doesn't carry all the way to the man in the deep, falls short of him, six needed off the final over, 14 taken off this one
18.5
2
Hannon-Dalby to Symes, 2 runs, another low full toss and that is slammed towards long-on for two more
18.4
4
Hannon-Dalby to Symes, FOUR, slammed, a full toss on middle stump, needed to be slammed and is, drilled back powerfully past the bowler, four more and now the Lions are in a much better place
18.3
6
Hannon-Dalby to Symes, SIX, huge cheers from the crowd as Symes finally strikes a six, that was overpitched outside off, Symes makes a bit of room and slices that over sweeper cover for six

LIONS 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st27GH BodiAN Petersen
2nd4GH BodiQ de Kock
3rd38ND McKenzieQ de Kock
4th20D PretoriusQ de Kock
5th18J SymesD Pretorius
6th27TL TsolekileJ Symes

Champions League Twenty20

Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
DC420121.44
TITNS42110-0.017
KKR41260.488
PS4126-0.474
AUCK4126-0.963
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
SS440161.656
LIONS431120.14
CSK4228-0.049
MI4032-0.471
YORKS4032-1.791
Qualifying Pool 1
TeamMWLPTNRR
AUCK22081.904
Sia2114-0.511
HANTS2020-1.331
Qualifying Pool 2
TeamMWLPTNRR
YORKS22080.507
UvNxt2012-0.244
T&T2012-0.777