Hosts, Cinnamon Grand Colombo regained the City Five Star Hotels Finance Cricket ‘Sixes’ 2016 title, at the third Annual Tournament held at the Bloomfield Grounds last weekend  Cinnamon Grand Colombo led by Janudika Sriyapala beat their sister hotel, Cinnamon Lakeside in the final.  The tournament was conducted with six teams pooled into two groups. At [...]

The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

Cinnamon Grand regain Cricket ‘Sixes’

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Hosts, Cinnamon Grand Colombo regained the City Five Star Hotels Finance Cricket ‘Sixes’ 2016 title, at the third Annual Tournament held at the Bloomfield Grounds last weekend  Cinnamon Grand Colombo led by Janudika Sriyapala beat their sister hotel, Cinnamon Lakeside in the final.  The tournament was conducted with six teams pooled into two groups.
At completion of the league round, Cinnamon Lakeside finished on top of Group ‘A’, followed by Galadari Hotel (defending) and Hilton Colombo; Cinnamon Grand finished on top of Group ‘B’, followed by Cinnamon Hotels Management and Taj Samudra (2015 runners-up).

In the knockouts Cinnamon Lakeside beat Cinnamon Hotels Management and Cinnamon Grand beat Galadari Hotel.
In the play off for third and fourth places, Cinnamon Hotels Management beat Galadari Hotel. Cinnamon Lakeside beat Cinnamon Hotels and Cinnamon Grand beat Galadhari Hotels in the semi-finals.  Final: Cinnamon Grand beat Cinnamon Lakeside  Cinnamon Grand 93 for 2 (5) (Denuka Costa 52 not out) Cinnamon Lakeside 59 for 3 (5) (Tariq Mohamed 27, J. Sriyapala 2/11)

Special Awards: Best Fielder, Rajeeve Michael; Best Batsman and Man of the Final – Denuka Costa; Best Bowler and Man of the Tournament: Janudika Sriyapala all from Cinnamon Grand Colombo. Awards were presented by Suneth Jayamanne Director Finance, Cinnamon Lakeside, Shnaka Silva Head of Finance Cinnamon Grand & Cinnamon City Sector & Sunil Peiris, Head of Finance, Cinnamon Hotels Management Ltd.,  Tournament History: 2014 hosted by Cinnamon Lakeside, won by Cinnamon Grand; 2015 hosted by Taj Samudra, won by Galadari Hotel  - LR

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