Cricket Match Highlights: Holder Drops Allen, Siraj Takes Wicket

Overs6.5

Score61 - 1

Jason Holder to Finn Allen, DROPPED! A sitter goes down. Mohammed Siraj is the guilty party. Holder bends his back and generates a bit of lift off the deck because of his height. This is around off, Allen stands tall to flat bat it down the ground. Spoons it towards long on, where Siraj takes a couple of steps in off the ropes and bends to take the catch over his right shoulder in reverse cup style. The ball bursts through his hands and drops behind him. Single taken. How costly will this drop prove to be for the Titans?

1

Overs6.1

Score57 - 1

Jason Holder to Finn Allen, Starts on a good length, around the off stump. Allen looks to punch it away on the off side. The ball nips back in to catch the inside edge. It deflects onto the pads and drops on the off side. They cross.

6

Overs5.5

Score56 - 1

Kagiso Rabada to Angkrish Raghuvanshi, SIX! Innovative and mighty effective! Fuller and outside off. Raghuvanshi takes a step across the stumps and gets his hands out in front. He hangs low and manages to get under the ball. Plays the scoop and ducks a bit to get his head out of the way. It sails over the keeper for a six.

1wd

Overs5.3

Score49 - 1

Kagiso Rabada to Finn Allen, Wide! Rabada spots Allen moving across the stumps for the scoop and pushes it away from the batter. Finn tries to get his hands in line with the ball and angle it past short third but misses. Kagiso Rabada is not happy with the wide call and Gill challenges the wide call. The replays show that the ball was beyond the return crease on the off side and there was no bat involved. The call of wide stays.

Review time! That did seem to have kept a bit low. A loud shout for LBW is turned down, and after a long discussion, Shubman Gill does take the DRS. The third umpire checks UltraEdge first and there's no bat involved. Ball Tracking shows the wickets as umpire's call and the on-field call stands. NOT OUT!

1lb

Overs5.2

Score48 - 1

Kagiso Rabada to Angkrish Raghuvanshi, A decision that could have gone either way. Rabada attacks the front pad and gets the ball to jag back in off the surface. Raghuvanshi leans across the line of the ball to clip it away on the leg side. He plays all around it to get hit on the flap of the front pad. A loud shout, but it has been turned down. The ball rolls away in front of point and the batters sneak in a leg bye. Shubman Gill has a chat with the bowler and the keeper before going for the review. The angle seems to take the ball past the leg stump. UltraEdge shows no bat but the Ball Tracking has the ball clipping the leg stump. It is umpire's call. The on-field decision has been upheld but GT retain their review.

W

Overs4.3

Score44 - 1

Mohammed Siraj to Ajinkya Rahane, OUT! CLEANED HIM UP! Mohammed Siraj provides the first strike for the Titans. 200th T20 wicket for Siraj. It is the nip-backer, attacking the sticks, on a length. Rahane goes across the line once again, but his feet go nowhere. The ball comes back in to go past the inside edge and crashes into the stumps. End of a 44-run opening stand.

4

Overs4.2

Score44 - 0

Mohammed Siraj to Ajinkya Rahane, FOUR! Streaky, but they all count! At 136.5 kph, on a length, on off and middle. Rahane closes the bat face as he looks to shove it behind square leg. The ball straightens a bit to catch the top edge and flies well over short third for a boundary.

6

Overs3.2

Score32 - 0

Kagiso Rabada to Finn Allen, SIX! High and handsome and that gets the crowd going! Full into the slot, outside off. Allen gets under it nicely and bludgeons it over the long off fence for a huge six. Right out of the screws.

2

Overs2.6

Score25 - 0

Mohammed Siraj to Finn Allen, DROPPED! Holder is the man, and if anyone could have got his hands on it, it is that bloke. Hits the deck hard, outside off, it doesn't rise much. Allen gets on the toes and tries to punch it over cover, but does not hit it off the middle. Jason Holder leaps and tries to pluck the ball with his right hand extended above, but the ball clips his fingertips and rolls behind to the deep for two runs.

4

Overs2.4

Score19 - 0

Mohammed Siraj to Finn Allen, FOUR! Flashed away! Back of a length, nipping away, outside off. Allen plays off the back foot and flashes hard at it. Gets more of an outside edge and it flies over and between backward point and short third for a boundary.

0

Overs1.3

Score5 - 0

Kagiso Rabada to Ajinkya Rahane, Three dots in a row! At 143.7 kph, this is bashed on a good length, outside off, nipping away. Rahane tries to free his arms, trying to cut it over point, but misses out.

2

Overs0.6

Score5 - 0

Mohammed Siraj to Finn Allen, Nearly chopped on! Nips in from a fuller length, on off. Finn Allen gets on the front foot and tries to force it into the off side, but gets a thick inside edge past the stumps. The ball rolls through short fine leg and they cross for two runs. The ball is cut off in the deep. A very quiet and boundary-less opening over.