Doherty finished with figures of 4-27 off his four overs
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Hobart Hurricanes spinner Xavier Doherty sliced through the Barbados Tridents’ batting line-up with four wickets to not only lead his side to a comfortable six-wicket win in Mohali, but also secure them a spot in the semi-final of the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20).
Faulkner and Smith celebrate after leading Rajasthan to a come-from-behind victory
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Australia batsman Steven Smith and all-rounder James Faulkner amassed an unbeaten 85-run partnership at a trailblazing run rate of 15.93 to help the Rajasthan Royals stun the Royal Challengers Bangalore by five wickets in Bangalore.
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Perera hammered a quickfire 57
Sri Lanka’s opening pair of Kusal Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan both scored half-centuries as the Lankan Lions cruised past New Zealand by eight wickets to win the two-match Twenty20 series 1-0.
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Sharma became only the third cricketer to score an ODI double century
India opening batsman Rohit Sharma’s maiden ODI double century proved to be too much for James Faulkner, who smashed a magnificent century, and the rest of his Australian team-mates to handle.
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Shehzad and Hafeez single-handedly crushed Zimbabwe
Pakistan completed a 2-0 series whitewash behind opening batsman Ahmed Shehzad’s career-best 98 runs, which is now the highest score made by a Pakistani batsman in Twenty20 Internationals, surpassing Misbah-ul-Haq’s 87 not out against Bangladesh in Karachi in 2008.
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Dilshan scored 39 runs and took two wickets in Guyana’s blowout win
The Guyana Amazon Warriors became the first Caribbean Premier League (CPL) franchise to secure a spot in the final after thrashing the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel by seven wickets.
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Hafeez’s last-minute heroics knocked Antigua out
Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez and left-arm pace bowler Krishmar Santokie sent the Antigua Hawksbills packing with a five-wicket last-ball win, while also keeping the Guyana Amazon Warriors’ dream of becoming the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) champions alive.
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Muralitharan’s three wickets cut Barbados down to their knees
Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan took three wickets as the Jamaica Tallawahs cruised past the Barbados Tridents by six wickets.
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Ronchi is considering coming in lower down the order
New Zealand batsman Luke Ronchi has admitted that he is not the right person to be opening the batting for the national team after having played six innings, four of which have produced single digit scores and the longest of which lasted just 17 deliveries.
