BMS down UOK to enter final

Business Management School (BMS) Sri Lanka turned tables over University of Karachi (UOK), Pakistan by recording a comfortable seven-wicket win in their Red Bull Campus Cricket (RBCC) Twenty20 World Cup Tournament playoff encounter played at the SSC ground yesterday.

BMS also avenged their earlier defeat after having lost to the same opponents by 62 runs in a round-robin match played at the same venue.

Pasindu Lakshitha was the hero for BMS as he cracked an unbeaten 75 in only 60 balls that included four boundaries and four sixes.

Pasindu was also involved in two valuable partnerships.

He first put on 80 runs in 71 balls for the second-wicket with Hashan Dumindu (35) and figured in an unbroken 63-run stand for the thirdwicket with Janith Liyanage as BMS raced to their target of 143 runs in the 18th over.

Earlier, UOK Pakistan invited to take first lease of the wicket lost their first wicket with just three runs on the board.

But they recovered thanks to Arasalan Farzand (53) and Khurram Shahzad who were involved in a 92-run stand for the second-wicket.

BMS who were the runners-up last year and the champions in 2016 will meet the unbeaten Marathwada Mitra Mandal College India in the final scheduled to be played at the SSC Grounds today commencing at 2.00 p.m.

UOK: 142/8 in 30 overs (Arslan Farzand 53, Khurram Shahzad 34, Chamika Karunaratne 2/26, Janith Liyanage 2/33)

BMS: 143/2 in 17.3 overs (Hashan Dumindu 35, Pasindu Lakshitha 75 n.o).