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Rajans are confident this time Dharmaraja’s captain, fourth year all rounder Rukshan Suriyarachchi is positively upbeat and brimming with confidence about his team’s chances in the 2006/07 Lemonade Trophy tournament. “I think my team is capable of winning the Lemonade Trophy” he says.
Rukshan was reasonably successful last season scoring over 450 runs and capturing just over thirty wickets with his off breaks. He reserved his best for the centenary big match against Kingswood where he made an attractive 113 and had a haul of 5/47 in the Kingswood innings. The vice captain will be either Tharindu Perera, a left arm spinner, or Samitha Rajapakse a right arm leggie Perera, who grabbed 40 wickets last season and is a very agile fielder too. A key player in the side is left hander Chandimal
Ratnayake who made a hundred against Zahira last season. He also
opens the attack with his medium pace. Ratnayake is presently skippering
the under 17 side in the second round. He made an enterprising half century in the big match. Much is expected if Thilina Batangala, a left hand bat and a right arm off cutter. Another medium pacer Harsha Udara is better known as a hard-hitting bat. Both these players are expected to bolster the middle-order. Kumara Ambagaspitiya, a left handed opener, made moderate contributions last year, but more runs are expected from him this time round. His partner, in all probability will be the captain of the under fifteen side Ramesh Bandara, a right hander and a left arm spinner. – AK |
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