Blue Water and Amaya Lake retain TTSC “sixes’
Blue Water Wadduwa and Amaya Lake Dambulla retained the Travel Trade Sports Club Softball Cricket “Sixes” men’s and women’s titles respectively at the 42nd edition of the tournament at the Steel Corporation Grounds, Athurugiriya.
Blue Water beat Sri Lankan Airlines in the Mens Final & Amaya Lake beat Cinnamon Grand Colombo in the Womens final.
41 Mens teams and 13 Womens teams participated in the tournament which was sponsored by Aitken Spence Travels for the 18th time.
Blue water reached the final beating Club Hotel Dolphin Waikkala, Amaya Lake Dambulla, Galle Face Hotel and Cinnamon Bay Beruwela.
Sri Lankan Airlines on their way to the final beat Camelot Beach Negombo, Centara Ceysands Aluthgama, Wild Coast Yala, Infinity Vacations and Jetwing Sea Negombo.
The 2018 runners–up Cinnamon Grand lost to Jetwing Sea Negombo in the quarter finals.
Womens Final: Cinnamon Grand – 71 for 4 in 05 overs (M. Udayashanthi 12, G. Gamagedera 1/12, G. Pushpakanthi 1/13, B. Sevwandi 1/20, D. Ekanayake 1/12) lost to Amaya Lake, Dambulla – 74 for 2 in 04 overs (G. Pushpakanthi 34 not out, Alisha Grero 1/25, Rasika Edirisinghe 1/9)
Special Awards (Women): Best Bowler – Rasika Edirisinghe (Cinnamon Grand); Best Batter – Gimhani Gamagedera (Amaya Lake Dambulla)
Woman of the Final – Ganga Pushpakanthi (Amaya Lake Dambulla); Woman of the Tournament – Kalpani Herath (Amaya Lake Dambulla)
Mens Final:
Blue Water – 82 for 4 in 05 overs (Kalum Silva 25, Sajith Thabrew 16, Sangeeth Abeygunawardena 18 not out, Shiromal Fernando 2/09, Chamara Kulatillake 1/14, Nilina Pathirana 1/18) beat Sri Lankan Airlines – 14 all out in 2.2 overs (Uditha Dayawansa 2/08, Ashan Madusanka 1/05, Kalum Silva 2/0)
Special Awards (Men): Best Bowler – Uditha Dayawansa (Blue Water, Wadduwa); Best Batsman
– Nilina Pathirana (Sri Lankan Airlines); Man of the Final – Kalum Silva (Blue Water Wadduwa); Man of the Tournament – Ashan Madusanka (Blue Water, Wadduwa) - BM