SSC coast to their ninth outright win
Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) continued their winning streak when they coasted to their ninth outright win of the SLC Major Club Tier ‘B’ Cricket Tournament with a comfortable 209-run win over Navy SC in the match concluded at Welisara yesterday. In two other games, outright wins were recorded by Negombo CC, by a convincing innings and 96 runs against over Malay CC at BRC ground, and Kandy Customs, who overcome Galle CC by 2 wickets at Dombagoda.
| Brief Scores | |
SSC 251 all out (61.1) (Nipun Dhananjaya 128, Lakshitha Manasinghe 52, Ranuda Somaratne 26, Krishan Sanjula 20; Dilanka Auwardt 6/96, Poorna Charuka 2/14, Raveen Tharindu 2/83) and 278 all out (65.2) (Ranuda Somaratne 77, Nipun Dhananjaya 50, Lakshitha Manasinghe 34, Nuwanidu Fernando 32, Gishan Balasooriya 26, Ranuk Jayasuriya 22, Dinura Kalupahana 22; Dilanka Auwardt 8/100, Ishan Abeysekera 2/56) Navy SC (182-8 o’night) 183 all out (44.1) (Raveen Tharindu 40n.o., Waruna Mayantha 35, Thevondu Dickwella 28, Rajitha Ratnayake 23, Dilanka Auwardt 19n.o.; Gishan Balasooriya 5/69, Nuwanidu Fernando 2/22) and 138 all out (22.4) at close (Lakshan Rodrigo 75; Gishan Balasooriya 5/44, Nipun Dhananjaya 2/15, Chamindu Wickramasinghe 2/28)
Negombo CC 397 all out (77.3) (Pasindu Thirimadura 115, Sheshan Fernando 75, Dimuth Sandaruwan 54, Kaveen Fernando 41, Sandeepa Perera 35; Chanaka Devinda 6/152) Malay CC (106-7 o’night) 166 all out (42.1) (Buddhika Hasaranga 68, Sudara Dhakshina 37; Sandeepa Perera 5/39, Shehan Pramod 3/64, Dhanushka Sandaruwan 2/47) and 135 all out (26) at close (Buddhika Hasaranga 29, Harindu Jayasekera 22, Yesith Rupasinghe 21; Sandeepa Perera 5/53, Shehan Pramod 3/41, Dhanushka Sandaruwan 2/37)
Galle CC 76 all out (29) (Lisula Lakshan 21; Mithun Jayawickrama 4/18, Nirmala Ratnayake 4/22) and (93-4 o’night) 244 all out (67.4) (Lisula Lakshan 78, Hasitha Suranga 33, Chathura Randunu 33, Rajith Priyan 32, Amith Eranda 23; Yasoda Mendis 3/36, Mithun Jayawickrama 3/93, Ashan Randika 2/13, Dilan Jayalath 2/50) Kandy Customs 132 all out (40) (Dilan Jayalath 27, Lahiru Attanayake 26, Ashan Randika 23; Rajeewa Weerasinghe 4/33, Chathura Randunu 3/46, Ruvishan Perera 2/37) and 192 for 8 (49.3) at close (Lakshan Gamage 62, Yashoda Mendis 21, Dilan Jayalath 20; Ruvishan Perera 3/45, Rajeewa Weerasinghe 2/63)
Moratuwa SC 365 for 7 (86) decl (Gavin Boteju 50, Chanaka Ruwansiri 50, Rashmika Mevan 38, Sahan Kayshalya 38, Isula Niduwara 28, Vidura Lakshan 21; Bishan Hettiarachchi 4/103) Sebastianites (31-3 o’night) 92 all out (28) (Gayan Sirisoma 4/25, Rashmika Mevan 3/30, Ushan Sathsara 3/36) and 308 for 7 (80) at close (Umayanga Suwaris 95, Manelker de Silva 76, Rusiru Vilochana 53, Lahiru Fernando 29n.o., Medunaka Wijeyatileke 26, Tharusha Fernando 20n.o.; Gayan Sirisoma 4/42, Dumindu Sewmina 2/69)
Ragama CC 251 all out (70.2) (Chanaka Wijesinghe 63, Maleesha Silva 62, Manisha Rupasinghe 47, Sahil Dias 26; Malshan Gunasinghe 5/86, Senash Fernando 3/42, Githmin Colombage 2/53) Leo CC (58-1 o’night) 214 for 4 (50) at close (Nethma Karunaratne 101n.o., Hirun Sigera 53, Salindu Pathirana 22; Upul Indrasiri 2/86)
Army SC (158-4 o’night) 237 all out (67.1) (Pathum Dilshan 61, Chrishen Aponsu 26, Devindu Ekanayake 17n.o.; Himal Ravihansa 2/63) and 6 for 0 (3) at close United Southern 206 all out (67.2) (Pesandu Sanjan 81, Kavindu Ediriweera 59, Dilshan Kanchana 27; Gayan Chandrabose 6/72, Seekkuge Prasanna 3/35) |