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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chinthi123" data-source="post: 10987582" data-attributes="member: 257847">Ruhuna win dramatically, left with outside chance                  <img src="http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/137400/137404.2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                 Dinesh Chandimal's second fifty in two games kept Ruhuna's hopes alive     © AFP                              Enlarge                                                             Related Links                                         Players/Officials:              <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/champions-league-twenty20-2011/content/player/300628.html" target="_blank">Dinesh Chandimal</a>          Matches:              <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/champions-league-twenty20-2011/engine/match/521324.html" target="_blank">Leicestershire v Ruhuna at Hyderabad (Deccan)</a>          Series/Tournaments:              <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/champions-league-twenty20-2011/content/series/519661.html" target="_blank">Champions League Twenty20</a>          Teams:              <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/team/1.html" target="_blank">England</a>  |         <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/leicestershire/content/team/1133.html" target="_blank">Leicestershire</a>  |         <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/team/8.html" target="_blank">Sri Lanka</a>                     Leicestershire and Ruhuna jostled, pulled, tugged, stepped on each  other's toes to try to make it to the train first, but both might have  just missed it. Both teams came in looking for their first win, hoping  to make it big enough to spoil the party for Kolkata Knight Riders and  Somerset, who won their first games and were due to face each other  later in the evening. Leicestershire needed to chase down 161 in 13.2  overs to ensure automatic qualification, Ruhuna needed to keep them down  to 140. As it turned out, led by Abdul Razzaq, one of the cleanest  straight hitters of our time, Leicestershire threatened the improbable  automatic qualification, but the Ruhuna spinners kept pulling them back.  Razzaq perished in one final push for the run-rate boost, and the  spinners then choked the lower order to fashion a dramatic win, allowing  only 28 runs in the last six overs.    Leicestershire were knocked out, but Ruhuna now had two points, level  with Kolkata and Somerset, their net run-rate of -0.28 lagging behind  Kolkata's 0.1 and Somerset's 0.05. With only two teams out of the four  to go through, Ruhuna were expected to stay back and watch in hope that  the final qualifier is one-sided enough to push one of the sides' net  run-rate down.     Amid all this number-crunching, it was easy to overlook important good  innings on a slow track. Before Razzaq's smashing 68 off 46 came Dinesh  Chandimal's fighting 62 off 51 to help Ruhuna recover from 17 for 2 and  67 for 4. Recalled today to represent Sri Lanka in Tests against  Pakistan, Chandimal found himself in early with Harry Gurney's slower  balls causing a big dent with the wickets of Sanath Jayasuriya and  Mahela Udawatte.   Chandimal batted intelligently, not taking many risks, hitting the big  ones mainly down the ground, adding 44 and 41 with Milinda Siriwardana  and Shalika Karunanayake. The stand with Siriwardana helped them recover  after they had lost the first four inside 10 overs, the one with  Karunanayake provided Ruhuna the final thrust. Karunanayake scored 28  off those 41, off just 15 balls. Forty-seven came off those last four  overs, and Ruhuna had elbowed just past Leicestershire with the train  approaching.   Razzaq had played an important role in keeping Ruhuna down early on. The  second wicket he took was his 100th in Twenty20s. While he played the  support role with the ball, he knew he would have to do it all off his  own bat. He countered the slowness of the track by simply refusing to  play square. Sixty-one of his runs came in front of square, 32 of them  down the ground. With his grip high on the bat, he just stood and waited  to hit down the ground through the leverage of the long handle. Once he  left the crease to smash Jayasuriya into the second tier behind  long-on.    Ruhuna, though, kept cutting off Razzaq'a support. Arosh Janoda got  Joshua Cobb for 15 off six balls and Asanka Silva took out Andrew  McDonald, captain in the injured Matthew Hoggard's absence, for 24 off  15. When Will Jefferson got a rough lbw call to make it 81 for 3 in 9.1  overs, it was clear 13.2 overs would come and go. They came and went.  Razzaq, though, wanted as big a run-rate gain as possible, and started  trying to hit six off every delivery from the 12th over onwards.  Thirty-three came in three overs, but Razzaq finally holed out after  escaping two drops.   With 33 required off 36, Leicestershire lost the plot for a bit. Paul  Nixon and Wayne White fell playing big shots in the next two overs, and  suddenly Ruhuna were the favourites to win. The tail could only manage  singles as the noose got tighter and tighter. Then again they played out  the 20 overs, reducing the margin to just four runs, which left Ruhuna  with a minimum run-rate boost.    By the time Ruhuna got rid of Leicestershire, the train was about to leave the station.</blockquote>

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