Last year’s runners-up, John Keells Group (JKG) led by 47-year-old, Mahendra Amarasinghe, regained the MCA Over-40 ‘Sixes’ 2017title, beating SriLankan Airlines (SriLankan) in the Final at the MCA Grounds last Sunday. The tournament, with a record 18 teams participating, and conducted simultaneously at the MCA and Thurstan College Grounds, was once again sponsored by Ceylon [...]

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Last year’s runners-up, John Keells Group (JKG) led by 47-year-old, Mahendra Amarasinghe, regained the MCA Over-40 ‘Sixes’ 2017title, beating SriLankan Airlines (SriLankan) in the Final at the MCA Grounds last Sunday.

The tournament, with a record 18 teams participating, and conducted simultaneously at the MCA and Thurstan College Grounds, was once again sponsored by Ceylon Cold Stores PLC for the ‘Elephant House Lemonade’ Trophy. At the completion of the Group stage, the 6 group leaders, namely Fair First Insurance (Fair First), SriLankan and Singer Sri Lanka PLC (Singer) (from MCA Grounds) and JKG, Sampath Bank (Sampath) ‘A’ and AMW Group (AMW) (from Thurstan Grounds) advanced to the Knockout round.

Winners, John Keells Group team comprised of Mahendra Amarasinghe, Wasanthalal Fernando, P.K. Abeygunasekera, Ravi Subasinghe, Gamini Fernando, Rasika Weeraratne, Adrian G. Jaakey and Arul Kumar Jebamani (Avg. age of team 46.12 years)

Awards were presented by Chief Guest, Marketing Manager- Elephant House Beverages, Ceylon Cold Stores PLC, Nadeena Fernando, Senior VP/MCA, Roshan Iddamalgoda and Secretary T/C, MCA, Tarindra Kaluperuma.  - LR  

 Round 2 results at a glance:

At MCA:
Singer 52/3 (5 overs) lost to SriLankan 53/3 (3.4 overs)
Semi Final:
Fair First 58/3 (5 overs) lost to SriLankan 61/0 (3.4 overs)
At Thurstan:
AMW 70/2 (5 overs) lost to Sampath ‘A’ 71/1 (3.3 overs)
Semi Final:
JKG 100/1 (5 overs) beat Sampath ‘A’ 41/1 (5 overs)
Final at MCA:
JKG 70/1 (5 overs) (P.K. Abeygunasekera 32 n.o.; Nishantha Mendis 1/14) beat SriLankan 47/2 (5 overs) (Duminda Nanayakkara 19, Malinda Fernando 12 n.o.; Mahendra Amarasinghe 1/7)
Special Awards:
Most Senior Player: Aruna de Silva (59 years, of Sri Lanka Telecom)
Best Bowler: 48-year-old, Duminda Nanayakkara of SriLankan Airlines (4-0-27-3)
Most number of Sixes: 7 hit by 44-year-old Susantha de Mel of Fair First Insurance
Best Batsman and Man of the Final: 44-year-old, P.K. Abeygunasekera of John Keells Group (3 innings-101 runs-3 not outs )

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