Close tussle at Reid Avenue

line: Premier League Tier A

The end of the second day’s proceedings of the Premier League Tier A encounter between Bloomfield and Saracens SC at Reid Avenue saw the two teams in a close tussle with Saracens SC having taken first lease of the wicket making 320 and Bloomfield in their turn ending day two on 293 for 9.

Badureliya CC managed to take a close first innings lead over BRC when play ended on day two in the match played at the BRC ground while an unbeaten knock of 173 inclusive of 25 boundaries and six by Sangeeth Cooray was the highlight of the first day’s play of the same tournament match between Colts CC and Moors SC played at Braybrooke Place. The matches will be continued today.

SCORES:

At Reid Avenue

Saracens SC 320 (Pramod Maduwantha 86, Gamindu Kanishka 62, Minhaj Jaleel 43, Andy Solomons 33, Mishen

Silva 29, Ruvindu Gunasekera 24: Lahiru Samarakoon 4 for 59, Malith de Silva 3 for 75)

Bloomfield 293 for 9 (Nipun Karunanayake 69, Sachin Jayawardena 63, Pramud Hettiwatte 42, Adeesha Nanayakkara 40, Ramesh Mendis 22: Roshan Jayatissa 4 for 92, Chathura Randunu 2 for 78) At BRC

BRC 128 (T.N. Sampath 30, Chamikara Edirisinghe 26, Rumesh Buddika 23, Harsha Vithana 23: Alankara Asanka 5 for 45, Dilesh Gunaratne 4 for 42) and 312 for 7 (Suraj Randiv 60, Rumesh Buddika 51, Harsha Vithana 40, Shashin Dilranga 79 n.o.: Alankara Asanka 3 for 120, Duvindu Tilekeratne 2 for 70) Badureliya CC (123/9 ovenight) 133 (Pathum Nissanka 41, Dilhan Cooray 26: Chamikara Edirisinghe 5 for 20, Suraj Randiv 3 for 39) At Braybrooke Place Colts CC 353 for 4 (Dilruwan Perera 83, Pasindu Lakshanka 46, Sangeeth Cooray 173 n.o., Priyamal Perera 42 n.o.: Nilanka Sandakan 4 for 150) vs Moors SC - MSA