Fifth match washed out but SL Emerging win the series

Sri Lanka Emerging Team tour of Japan 2023

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The 5th and final T20 match between Sri Lanka Emerging Team and Japan was abandoned today (15th May) without a ball being bowled due to rain at the Sano International Cricket Stadium. Sri Lanka Emerging won the 5-match series 4-0.

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Japan skipper Kendel Kadowaki Fleming was the leading run-scorer from either side with 101 runs in 4 games, averaged 25.25 while Sri Lanka Emerging Team’s Ranmith Jayasena and Sakuna Liyanage scored 86 and 69 runs, respectively. However, throughout the series, none of batters from the two teams were able to score a fifty as Fleming’s 43 remained as the highest individual score.

On the bowling front, Sri Lanka Emerging skipper Dellon Peiris bagged 9 wickets in 4 games with an average of 8.22 and best of 3/21. Lakshan Gamage picked 5 wickets throughout the series while Japan’s Kohei Kubota picked 5 scalps too.

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Results of this series

  • 1st T20 – Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
  • 2nd T20 – Sri Lanka won by 68 runs
  • 3rd T20 – Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets
  • 4th T20 – Sri Lanka won by 45 runs
  • 5th T20 – Match abandoned due to rain

Sri Lanka Emerging skipper Dellon Peiris won both the Best Bowler and Player of the Series awards.

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