Champs MAST Industries too good for Courtaulds Clothing
MAST Industries led by Rukshan de Paul, retained the Apparel Premier League T20 Tournament 2017/18 title, with a comprehensive 7-wickets win over Courtaulds Clothing, at Thurstan College Grounds recently.
In the playoff for 3rd place, MAS Body Line scored a facile 120-runs win over Avery Dennison.
Nine teams participated in 2 Groups in the 4th edition of the tournament which commenced on Nov.3, the other 5 teams were – Coats Thread Lanka, Brandix Intimates, Antler Printing, Brandix Essentials and Screenline Printing.
In the semifinals, MAST Industries beat Brandix Essentials by default and Courtaulds Clothing beat MAS Bodyline by 2 wickets. Former Sri Lanka Cricketer T.M. Dilshan was the Chief Guest at the Awards presentation.
The other presenters were: Associate Vice President, MAST Industries, Michael Fernando, GM , Product Compliance Brandix Essentials, Nirosha Deeptha, Chief Operations Officer, MAS Bodyline, Sahan Rajapaksa and Group General Manager Operations, Courtaulds Clothing , Chaminda Hettiarachchi and General Manager, Product Development, Courtaulds Clothing , Chalana Perera.
Chief Scores:
Playoff for 3rd place:
- MAS Bodyline beat Avery Dennison by 120 runs
- MAS Bodyline- 210/5 (20 overs) (Tharinda Thivanka 61, Imadu Subasinghe 49, Vishma Niranjan 46; S. Jayaratne 2/35, C. Wijeratne 2/29)
- Avery Dennison- 90 (19.3 overs) (S. Perera 25, R. Warnakumara 20 n.o.; Imalka Prabashwara 5/8, G. Sepalage 2/10)
Final
- MAST Industries beat Courtaulds Clothing by 7 wickets
- Courtaulds Clothing -60 (14.2 overs) (Nuwan Anthony 3/13, Aravinda Rajapaksa 2/6)
- MAST Industries- 64/3 (10.1 overs) (Rasika Wickramaratne 25 n.o., Aravinda Rajapaksa 22)
- Match Referee, Sriyan S. Hewawasam picked Aravinda Rajapaksa of MAST Industries as Man of the Match. The other 3 special awards based on performances in the League stage were:
- Best Batsman and Man of the Series- Rasika Wickramaratne of MAST Ind.
- Best Bowler- Pradeep Wickramasinghe of Courtaulds Clothing