Lasses in the Southern province proved their prowess with bat and ball at the Inter District Ladies Cricket Tournament conducted by Sri Lanka Cricket at Vijitha Central College grounds last weekend. The tournament was organised to identify talented lasses as well as select the Southern Province Ladies Cricket team for the forthcoming Inter Provincial Ladies [...]

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Southern lasses prove their prowess

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Kavindi Parami (Galle) 107 runs vs Hambanthota

Lasses in the Southern province proved their prowess with bat and ball at the Inter District Ladies Cricket Tournament conducted by Sri Lanka Cricket at Vijitha Central College grounds last weekend.

Iresha Chathurani (Galle) 104 runs vs Matara

The tournament was organised to identify talented lasses as well as select the Southern Province Ladies Cricket team for the forthcoming Inter Provincial Ladies Cricket Tournament which is to get underway this month.

Kavindi Parami and Iresha Chathurani of Galle district slammed centuries against Hambanthota and Matara districts while Lihini Apsara (Matara), Tharushi Sandunika (Hambanthota), S N Dulanjalai (Galle) and Sachini Nisansala (Galle) captured six wicket hauls or more to prove their ability as bowlers. Tharushi Sandunika was rewarded with a hat-trick while Sachini Nisansala captured seventeen wickets in a match including all ten wickets in an innings. She was the highest wicket taker of the tournament with 22 victims.

Results

  •  Matara beat Hambantota by an innings and 59 runs

Hambanthota District 49 in 24.4 overs (Nethmi Himasara 13, Lihini Apsara 6/21, Tharuka Shehani 2/10), and 19 in 15.5 overs (Isuri Tharuka 4/9, Tharushi Sandunika 6/8)

Matara District 127/9 declared in 37 overs (Lihini Apsara 24, Kalpani Nimesha 21, Tharuka Shehani 22; S N Dulanjali 6/41, Nethmi Gunawardena 2/27

  • Galle beat Hambantota by an innings and 188 runs

Galle district 291/7 dec in 49 overs (Sakuni Deshanjali 22, Kavindi Parami 107, Iresha Chathurani 49, Nilakshana Sandamini 44: Piyumi Wathsala 2/88, Kavindi Yasara 2/67, Nethmi Gunawardena 2/47) and

Hambanthota 54 in 19.4 overs (Piyumi Wathsala 16; Lanka Mendis 2/22, Sachini Nisansala 7/18 (8.4 overs) and 49 in 21.2 overs (Piyumi Wathsala 27, Sachini Nisansala 10/15 (10.2 overs)

  •   Matara drew with Galle

Galle District 272/7 dec in 54 overs (Iresha Chathurani 104, Sakuni Deshnjali 22, Pooja Ranjana 42, Sathya Sandeepani 25; Tharuka Shehani 3/58, Tharushi Sandamini 2/66)

Matara District 83 in 25.1 overs (Lihini Apsara 28, W W Tharuka 21; Sachini Nisansala 5/28, Sakuni Deshanjali 2/5)

 

 

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