Seekkuge, Asela Gunaratne shine in Army SC’s win
Bloomfield batsman Nisal Francisco flicks one to the boundary against Tamil Union - Pic by Ranjith Perera
An allround performance by Seekkuge Prasanna and a match bag of eight wickets by Dushan Vimukthi paved the way for Army SC to secure an outright win by two wickets against CCC in their Premier Plate Championship encounter concluded at the BRC grounds yesterday.
The duo shared eight wickets to bundle out CCC for a low score of 120. Later Army SC set a run chase of 189 runs reached the target for the loss of eight wickets to record their first win for the season.
For Army, national caps Prasanna (39 and 7 for 154) and Asela Gunaratne 51 shone.
At Braybrooke Place batsmen Binura Fernando (82), Tharanga Paranavithana (76), Dinuk Wickramanayake (50) and Sithara Gimhan (50) scored half centuries to guide Tamil Union to a first innings win over Bloomfield.
Lowly placed Badureliya CC dominated proceedings to record a well deserved first inning win over fancied Moors SC at Reid Avenue.
Results
- At BRC: Army beat CCC
by 2 wickets
CCC 333 (Lasith Abeyratne 109, Malindu Maduranga 63, Wanindu Hasaranga 35, Manelker de Silva 31, Ashan Priyanjan 27, Sachith Pathirana 27, Ron Chandragupta 22: Dushan Vimukthi 5 for 66, Malka Madusanka 2 for 59, Seekkuge Prasanna 2 for 109) and (56/7 overnight) 120 (Wanindu Hasaranga 35, Ron Chandragupta 17: Seekkuge Prasanna 5 for 45, Dushan Vimukthi 3 for 17)
Army SC 265 (Dilan de Soysa 62, Asela Gunaratne 51, Seekkuge Prasanna 39, Yasoda Mendis 34, Dushan Vimukthi 33, Lakshitha Madushan 27: Sachith Pathirana 7 for 76, Dinuk Hettiarachchi 2 for 78) and 189 for 8 (Seekkuge Prasanna 63, Ajantha Mendis 37, Lakshan Edirisinghe 24, Lakshitha Madushan 35 n.o.: Sachith Pathirana 4 for 110, Ashan Priyanjan 2 for 21)
- At Braybrooke Place:
Bloomfield 323 (Nisal Fransisco 48, Nipun Karunanayake 45, Adeesha Nanayakkara 18, Kasun Rajitha 18, Ramesh Mendis 137 n.o.: Jeevan Mendis 6 for 100, Disnaka Manoj 2 for 53) and 301 for 8 (Nisal Fransisco 120, Ramesh Mendis 29, Adeesha Nanayakkara 22, Anuk Fernando 103 n.o.: Jeevan Mendis 4 for 123, Dinuk Wickramanayake 2 for 39, Ramith Rambukwella 2 for 85)
Tamil Union (295/5 overnight) 336 (Binura Fernando 82, Tharanga Paranavithana 76, Dinuk Wickramanayake 50, Sithara Gimhan 50: Malith de Silva 5 for 56, Koshan Dhanushka 3 for 98)
- At Reid Avenue: Match drawn
Moors SC 214 (Thilaksha Sumanasiri 53, Tharindu Ratnayake 43, Charitha Kumarasinghe 25, Irosh Samarasooriya 22, Nilanka Sandakan 15: Alankara Asanka 4 for 51, Savith Priyan 2 for 37, Madura Lakmal 2 for 47, Dilesh Gunaratne 2 for 63) and (40/0 overnight) 386 for 9 declared (Chamara Silva 121, Thilaksha Sumanasiri 79, Pabasara Waduge 64, Primosh Perera 37, Irosh Samarasooriya 18, Charitha Kumarasinghe 32 n.o.: Alankara Asanka 2 for 125)
Badureliya SC 338 (Salinda Ushan 97, Nadeera Nawela 95, Sanjaya Chathuranga 37, Subramaniam Anand 30, Savith Priyan 24: Nilanka Sandakan 4 for 79, Chamara Silva 2 for 27, Shiran Fernando 2 for 45) and 121 for 4 (Nadeera Nawela 47, Pathum Nissanka 67 n.o.: Sajeewa Weerakoon 3 for 31)