After a layoff of two consecutive week-end’s due to extreme weather conditions, the Seventh Stafford Motor Co. (Pvt) Ltd., sponsored, ‘Honda’ Trophy – MCA ‘G’ Division 25 over League Tournament 2017 was back on rails last week-end but not without the weather being a nuisance. Out of twenty-one matches, Five ended in no-results and nine [...]

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After a layoff of two consecutive week-end’s due to extreme weather conditions, the Seventh Stafford Motor Co. (Pvt) Ltd., sponsored, ‘Honda’ Trophy – MCA ‘G’ Division 25 over League Tournament 2017 was back on rails last week-end but not without the weather being a nuisance.

Out of twenty-one matches, Five ended in no-results and nine matches were played with reduced overs.The best team total was 228 for 7 in 25 overs came from Coutaulds Clothing Vs.Coca Cola Beverages.The lowest total was by debutants VS Information-21 in 11.2 overs Vs. HNB ‘B’.

Notable batting performances came from Chinthaka Wijeratne from Avery Dennison (91 in 64 balls, nine sixes and four fours Vs. Laugfs Holdings); Krishan Maduranga from Coutaulds Clothing (82 in 56 balls, seven sixes and six fours) and Kusal Ponnamperuma from Commercial Credit ‘C’ (79 not out in 63 balls, six sixes and four fours Vs. Kelani Cables)

The bowlers who did well were: Dinesh Panditharatne from HNB ‘B’ (5-3-5-7 Vs.VS Information); K.A. Sarathchandra from ACL Cables ( 3-0-19-5 Vs. Pyramid Wilmer) and K.A.J. Shalinda from Alliance Finance (5-0-25-5 Vs.Glaxo SmithKline) and Chinthaka Wijeratne from Avery Dennison ( 2.5-0-8-5 Vs. Laugfs Holdings).  The tournament will be continued this week-end with a card of 22 matches.  -L.R.

Weekend’s Match Results at a glance 

MCA /morning: Sri Lankan Airlines beat Shipxpress by 8 wickets; (Match reduced to 20 overs a side)
Ship X 68 (16.1); SLA 69/2 (7.5)
MCA /afternoon: Cargills Bank Vs.Jetwing Travels – No result
Mattegoda /morning: Aitken Spence Group beat Fair First Insurance by 7 runs on the DLS method (match reduced to 11 overs a side)
FFI 109/5(11); Ait. Spence 102/7 in 9.5 overs when rain halted play.
Mattegoda/afternoon: HNB Assurance Vs. Peak Colombo – no result. Panadura/morning: PABC Bank ‘B’ beat Tea & Herbs by 9 wickets
T&H 103/2 (11); PABC 107/1 (15.2)
Panadura/afternoon: Pyramid Wilmer beat ACL Cables by 4 wkts on D/L method (match reduced to 12 overs a side)
ACL 59/5 (12); PW 66/6 (9.1)Veyangoda /morning: DIMO ‘B’ Vs. Wruth Lanka – No result
Thurstan/morning: Maliban Biscuits beat Coats Thread Lanka by 9 wkts (match reduced to 16 overs a side)
Coats 53 (15.2); Maliban 55/1 (4)
Thurstan/morning: Mobitel ‘B’ beat JAT Holdings by 6 runs
Mobitel ‘B’ 153/8 (25); JAT 147 /7 (25)
Thurstan /afternoon: Pearson Lanka beat Shipxpress by 7 wkts
Shipxpress 85 (20.3); Pearsons 89/3 (11.5)
Moratuwa/morning: HNB ‘B’ beat VS Information by 8 wkts
VSI 21 (11.2); HNB ‘B’ 24/2 (2.5)
Moratuwa /afternoon: Avery Dennison beat Laugfs Holdings by 105 runs
Avery D 223/7 (25); Laugfs 118 (18.5)
Kotahena/morning: Alliance Finance beat Glaxo SmithKline by 88 runs (match reduced to 22 overs a side)
AF 205/6 (22); GSK 117 (21.5)
Kotahena /afternoon: Asiri Hospitals beat Group M- Media by 6 wkts
GMM 131 (23); Asiri 133/4 (19.2)
Mattegoda/morning: A. Baur & Co. beat CIC by 6 wkts (match reduced to eight overs a side )
CIC 62/4 (8); Baur 65/4 (6.2)
Mattegoda/afternoon: Coutaulds Clothing beat Coca Cola Beverages by 115 runs
Coutaulds 228/7 (25); Coca Cola 113 (22.2)
Panadura/morning: Kelani Cables beat Com. Credit ‘C’ by 4 wkts
Com Credit 167/7 (25); KC 171/6 (21.5)
Panadura/afternoon: Interpharm beat RR Donnely by 47 runs
Interpharm 143 (21.1); RRD 96 (23.2)
Veyangoda /morning: Deutsche Bank AG Vs.MD Gunasena -No result
Veyangoda/afternoon: CEAT International Kelaniya beat BPO Connect by 6 runs
CEAT 184/9 (24); BPOC 178/9 (24)

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