THARINDU SPINS SSC TO OUTRIGHT VICTORY
Premier Tier ‘A’ Cricket Tourney
SSC began their campaign for the Premier League Tier ‘A’ Cricket Tournament on a winning note with a convincing 112-run outright win over CCC in their match which concluded at the SSC Grounds in Maitland Place yesterday.
The hero of SSC was their rightarm spinner Tharindu Ratnayake who ended with a matchbag of 14 wickets.
CCC set a victory target of 250 runs, were bowled out for 137 runs.
At Maitland Place (SSC won by 112 runs)
SSC: 229 and (92/3 overnight) 245 (Sammu Ashan 65, Sandun Weerakkody 47, Kaushal Silva 35, Tharindu Ratnayake 35, Ashan Priyanjan 4/67, Lakshan Sandakan 4/76)
CCC: 225 and 137 (Sonal Dinusha 59, Lasith Abeyratne 47, Tharindu Ratnayake 7/50). At Maggona (1st innings win for BRC)
Badureliya CC: 258 and 164/9 (Nadeera Nawela 76, Subramaniam Anand 25, T. N. Sampath 3/39, Duvindu Tilekeratne 3/44)
BRC (318/5 overnight): 449/6 declared (Hashen Ramanayake 110, Rumesh Buddika 95, Deshan Dias 48, Bhanuka Rajapaksa 33, T. N. Sampath 28, Ravinath Wijesooriya 123 n.o, Sachith Pathirana 3/143). At Maitland Place (1st innings win for Ragama CC)
NCC: 272 and 137/6 (Hasitha Boyagoda 51, Mahela Udawatte 38, Dinesh Chandimal 23, Amila
Aponso 4/48)
Ragama CC (168/5 overnight): 377 (Ishan Jayaratne 99, Sameera de Zosya 70, Lahiru Thirimanne 53, Saminda Fernando 43, Shehan Fernando 33, Supeshala Jayatileke 25, Sachintha Peiris 4/96).
At Katunayake (1st innings win for Tamil Union)
Chilaw Marians CC: 210 and 251/8 (Harsha Cooray 39, Oshada Fernando 38, Yasoda Lanka 29, R. Gomez 28, Nimesh Vimukthi 38 n.o, Ramith Rambukwella 3/58)
Tamil Union (322/6 overnight): 390 (Sachithra Serasinghe 112, Kithuruwan Vithanage 105, Lahiru Milantha 53, Kamindu Mendis 45, Nimesh Vimukthi 4/61). At Havelock Park (1st innings win for Saracens SC)
Saracens SC: 316 and 145/7 declared (Nipun Karunayake 57, Leo Francisco 40, Ashen Bandara 27 n.o, Nisala Tharaka 3/25, Akila Dhananjaya 3/58)
Colts CC (133/5 overnight): 224 (Sadeera Samarawickrama 64, Jehan Daniel 29, Avishka Fernando 23, Chalana de Silva 22, Vishad Randika 31 n.o, Chamikara Edirisinghe 3/44) and 56/3 (Nisala Tharaka 25 n.o).
At P. Sara Oval (1st innings win for Moors SC)
Moors SC: 320
SLPA CC (93/6 overnight): 156 (Adeesha Nanayakkara 30, Ranesh Perera 29, Ramesh Nimantha 25, Tharindu Kaushal 4/40) and 165/4 (Yohan de Silva 59, Adeesha Nanayakkara 58 n.o, Gayan Maneeshan 29 n.o).