I agree with you Jaffna Kings outstanding performance in this match and winning by 7 wickets against Colombo Strikers. Jaffna Kings chase down the target 190 runs by losing only 3 wickets in the 19th over of the match. Shadab Khan and Dunith Wellalage both picked only 1, 1 wicket but didn't do much effective bowling that made things easy for Colombo strikers. The Player of the Match is Rilee Rossouw from Jaffna Kings for his amazing century scoring 108 runs unbeaten from just 50 balls only and helping Jaffna Kings to easily chase down the huge target. the bowling performance of Jaffna Kings is also impressive Azmatullah Omarzai bowled well picking 2 important wickets that helped under 200 runs.
After Colombo Strikers set a big target of 189 runs I thought Colombo would win the match. 188 runs on this pitch was not a small collection. The batsmen batted well enough. Glenn Phillips in particular scored 58 off just 32 balls. Colombo Strikers managed to collect 188 runs due to the good batting of the top order batsmen.
Although the batsmen did well, the performance of the bowlers was very poor. Colombo captain used his 8 bowlers in this match. But none of the bowlers could bowl well. Everyone has contributed a lot of runs. The poor performance of the bowlers is the reason why the Colombo team is lagging behind.
Yes, they felt like that because firstly they hoped that the target was high and secondly that if their bowlers worked hard and struggled then the runs would be stopped but they could not succeed in that and their bowlers were good. Could not perform and JK batsmen completed the target of 190 in 18 overs and won the match. Their batsmen had given the target with their best efforts, but no one knew that their bowlers would show such a performance. There is no doubt that CLS batsmen have worked hard and struggled. But their bowler should have taken wickets and stopped the runs, but they could not succeed in that and will lose the match. Congratulations to JK's team for this win and CLS should push their performance to win this match. They work hard and struggle, but the runs are not stopped by their bowlers and they lose the match.