RESULT
14th Match, Group A (D/N), Bengaluru, September 27, 2014, Champions League Twenty20
(20 ov, T:165) 148/9

Lahore Lions won by 16 runs

Player Of The Match
, Lions
73* (45)
umar-akmal
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DOLPH
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end of over 209 runs
DOLPH: 148/9CRR: 7.40 
Prenelan Subrayen1 (7b)
Robbie Frylinck63 (27b 4x4 6x6)
Wahab Riaz 4-0-31-1
Mustafa Iqbal 3-0-21-2

7.20pm And that is that. Hope you enjoyed the game, and you can hop over herefor commentary from the match between Chennai Super Kings and Perth Scorchers. From me and Chandan, it's bye bye.

7.15pm Presentation time.

Mohammad Hafeez has a smile on his face, but looks just a touch haggard. "It's a beautiful game of cricket and we know that T20 can give you anything," he says. "Umar Akmal was exceptionally good and Saad Nasim gave him excellent support. Everyone chipped in very well. We were very confident, we knew we had very good spinners, and they have done a really good job."

Umar Akmal is the man of the match He thanks the crowd for their support, and says the captain simply told him to "go out there and show your talent". He dedicates the award to "my mom and dad and wife."

Hezb Khan: "Amazing performance from the birthday boy. Din't win the match but surely dented NRR of Lions. CSK win tonight and they are through to the Semis based on their high NRR"

And here's Frylinck. They came off every part of his bat, he says, pointing to the middle and then to the edges. "Someone's got to lose, unfortunately. We came so close in the first game, unfortunately I got two balls wrong."

Morne van Wyk "We just haven't clicked, we arrived prepared really well. The Perth game could have been so different so easily, and you know what the consequences of that might have been [he's talking about those sixes off the last two balls from Mitchell Marsh]."

INFAS: "What an innings he played for CSK"

7.05pm And that is that. What an entertaining finish to a match that was headed for a one-sided finish. Frylinck, who had already taken three wickets, hit the ball so cleanly during that unbeaten innings of 63, and reached his half-century in 20 balls. Has anyone had a better 30th birthday? Only thing he couldn't do was win the game for his side, but that wasn't his fault by any means.

19.6
Wahab Riaz to Subrayen, no run

full, angling across, and Subrayen swings and misses

Ahsan Malik: "We are just trying to give Frylinck a good time on his birthday thats all this clearly shows how much Pakistani's care about there fellow cricketers "

19.5
1
Wahab Riaz to Frylinck, 1 run

yorker on middle stump, and he makes room and drives that firmly to deep cover. That's the last ball he'll face, and the Chinnaswamy gives him a lovely round of applause

19.5
1w
Wahab Riaz to Frylinck, 1 wide

looks for the slower bouncer, and ends up bowling a wide down the leg side. Frylinck simply walks across and lets it go past him

19.4
Wahab Riaz to Frylinck, no run

shortish ball, and it's onto him too quickly to pull from outside off. Can only jam this back down the pitch towards the bowler

19.3
6
Wahab Riaz to Frylinck, SIX runs

full-toss outside off, and he's sliced under it and launched it over the third man boundary

19.2
1b
Wahab Riaz to Subrayen, 1 bye

that's full and wide and they sneak a bye after Subrayen swings and misses again. Akmal misses with the underarm throw. Would have been out if he had hit the stumps

19.1
Wahab Riaz to Subrayen, no run

angles this across Subrayen, who swings hard at it and misses. Why wasn't he looking to simply get Frylinck on strike?

26 to get from the last over. Wahab has been expensive, but it's Subrayen on strike

end of over 195 runs
DOLPH: 139/9CRR: 7.31 RRR: 26.00
Robbie Frylinck56 (24b 4x4 5x6)
Prenelan Subrayen1 (4b)
Mustafa Iqbal 3-0-21-2
Aizaz Cheema 3-0-44-0
18.6
Iqbal to Frylinck, no run

pushed through flat, and the ball hits Frylinck high on the pad as he swings his body around and misses connecting with the pull

18.5
Iqbal to Frylinck, no run

short ball, and it turns very sharply to beat Frylinck as he looks to pull that high over midwicket

18.4
4
Iqbal to Frylinck, FOUR runs

this one is a touch short, and he swats that back past the bowler. Long-on dives to his left and gets a hand to it but can't stop the ball from rolling onto the boundary cushion

18.3
Iqbal to Frylinck, no run

and he makes room and launches it into the gap between those two fielders. It's fielded by Hafeez, who essentially saves four runs. The batsmen could have run two, but they didn't even run one. Oh well

deep extra cover and long-off are back

18.2
1
Iqbal to Subrayen, 1 run

length ball on off stump, and he knocks this down to long-on to bring Frylinck back on strike. Bangalore roars

18.1
Iqbal to Subrayen, no run

back of a length, not short enough to cut, and the ball beats his outside edge

Alex: "Some ordinary and bizarre captaincy by Hafeez. Cheema has gone for plenty, spinners have their overs left and still he goes for him. This is going to hurt their net run rate big time. And who knows if they lose the game from here."

Hafeez listens to Alex and goes back to his spinners. Here's Mustafa Iqbal, the left-arm spinner

end of over 1826 runs
DOLPH: 134/9CRR: 7.44 RRR: 15.50
Robbie Frylinck52 (20b 3x4 5x6)
Prenelan Subrayen0 (2b)
Aizaz Cheema 3-0-44-0
Wahab Riaz 3-0-23-1
17.6
6
Cheema to Frylinck, SIX runs

back of a length outside off, slower ball, and boom, out comes that meaty swing of the bat and the ball soars over wide long-on again. Fifty up for Frylinck, off 20 balls.

17.5
Cheema to Frylinck, no run

slower ball outside off, and it beats Frylinck as he stands there and looks to swat it over long-on again

This is most certainly the greatest allround performance in a Twenty20 game by a man celebrating his 30th birthday.

17.4
6
Cheema to Frylinck, SIX runs

another full-toss, outside off, and he has all the room in the world to free his arms and just punch that over the wide long-on boundary. He just jabbed at it, not much of a follow-through, but how well did he middle that?

17.3
6
Cheema to Frylinck, SIX runs

bish, bash, bosh, and over long-on! It's a waist-high full-toss, and Hafeez moves across to his right and leaps backward but can only help the ball over the rope as he looks to reach overhead and push it back into the field of play

17.2
2
Cheema to Frylinck, 2 runs

yorker on off stump, and he jabs that down to the left of mid-off and they manage to run two

17.1
6
Cheema to Frylinck, SIX runs

that is hit flat and hard. It was a length ball, angling in towards off stump, and he cleared his front leg and smashed that over the leaping long-on fielder

end of over 1715 runs
DOLPH: 108/9CRR: 6.35 RRR: 19.00
Robbie Frylinck26 (14b 3x4 1x6)
Prenelan Subrayen0 (2b)
Wahab Riaz 3-0-23-1
Aizaz Cheema 2-0-18-0
16.6
1lb
Wahab Riaz to Frylinck, 1 leg bye

slants this in too far, and the ball rebounds off the pads into the covers

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