{"id":2425616,"date":"2020-12-18T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T08:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepapare.com\/?p=2425616"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:26:04","slug":"colombo-kings-team-review-lpl-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepapare.com\/colombo-kings-team-review-lpl-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo Kings let down by one bad day with the bat"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Colombo Kings<\/a> quite literally ruled the league stage of the Lanka Premier League, easily topping the leaderboard, but had an \u2018off-day\u2019 at perhaps the worst possible time, the semi-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n Arguably the best team on paper coming into the LPL, the Colombo Kings had a comfortable journey to the semi-finals, losing just 2 of their 8 league games. One of those 2 losses came against the Galle Gladiators and ultimately proved to be the catalyst in the Gladiators\u2019 campaign. They did seem like the only team to have the better of eventual winners Jaffna Stallions, beating them twice reasonably comfortably in the league phase. A loss in their last game, may have arguably given them a chance at the Stallions once again in the semis, but it wasn’t to be.<\/p>\n Their campaign started off shakily as they conceded 219 in the tournament opener to Kandy Tuskers. But a flashy 80 off 46 deliveries by Dinesh Chandimal<\/a> and a blitzkrieg at the end of the innings by Isuru Udana<\/a> help them scrape through to a tie and a win in the Super Over. They followed that narrow win with an absolute thrashing of the Gladiators in their rain-curtailed 2nd<\/sup> game, where Andre Russell showed the LPL what a real T20 superstar looked like with 65 off just 19 deliveries. A 34-run win in a 5 over affair, massive!<\/p>\n