Zone ‘C’remain unbeaten and favourites after three wins
RESULTS:
Zone ‘C’ recorded three wins in the U19 Zonal Quadrangular limited over cricket tournament which is in progress now to remain unbeaten. In the first match they beat Zone ‘D’ by three wickets and then followed it up with a 27 runs win against Zone ‘A’ before overcoming Zone ‘B’ by five wickets on the Duckworth/Lewis method.
Earlier, Zone ‘A’ overcame Zone ‘B’ by 129 runs and then posted their second win with a four wickets win against Zone ‘ D’ while Zone ‘B’ got the better of Zone ‘D’ the only team that has not been able to chalk up a win yet. There were some fine batting performances with Kavin Bandara of DSS making a knock of 130 which incidentally is the highest individual knock of the tournament so far while Salinda Ushan of Isipathana and Risith Upamal of Dharmaloka MV Kelaniya were unfortunate to miss out making a ton by one run. (Kavin Bandara 130,Wanindu Hasaranga 32,Risith Upamal 18, Charana Nanayakkara 16, Ramesh Nimantha 15: Kamidu Mendis 2 for 25, Suresh Kumara 2 for 40, Lahiru Kumara 2 for 65) (Navindu Nirmal 38, Salinda Ushan 36: Lahiru Samarakoon 4 for 30, Charana Nanayakkara 2 for 8, Raveen Sayer 2 for 24) (Thanuka Dabare 97, Jehan Daniel 28, Damitha Silva 25, Kusal Lakthilina 22, Nishan Pieris 15: Kosala Bandara 3 for 31, Kavishka Anjula 2 for 40)
(Lakshina Rodrigo 74, Charith Asalanka 54, Nisal Francisco 34, Sahan
The tournament conducted by Sri Lanka Cricket is being contested by four teams with Malinga Amarasinghe of Nalanda, Sammu Ashan of Ananda, Char-
Pieris 18: Damitha Silva 3 for 47)
(Kavishka Anjula 53, Pramod Maduwantha 33: Duleepa Akash 2 for 10, Wanidu Hasaranga 2 for 15, Lahiru Samarakoon 2 for 15)
(Charana Nanayakkara 50, Risith Upumal 32: Duvindu Tilekeratne 4 for 22, Asitha Fernando 4 for 33)
(Avishka Fernando 22, Damith Perera 20: Kamindu Mendis 4 for 22, Lasith Embuldeniya 4 for 24) (Kamindu Mendis 64, Himasha Liyanahe 47: Jehan Daniel 2 for 31) ith Aslanka of Richmond and Avishka Fernando of St Sebastian’s Moratuwa being the captains of the four sides. The tournament is being played on a lea- (Thanuka Dabare 67, Avishka Fernando 50, Nushan Weerasinghe 46, Kusal Lakthilina 37, Deshan Gunasinghe 32, Jehan Daniel 25: Duleepa Akash 3 for 52, Raveen Sayer 2 for 39, Himesh Ramanayake 2 for 76) (Risith Upamal 99, Charana Nanayakkara 75, Sajith Vithanage 25, Vishad de Silva 30 n.o., Raveen Sayer 15 n.o.: Thilan Nimeshana 2 for 47) (Salinda Ushan 99, Kamindu Mendis 60, Himasha Liyanage 33, Pathum Nissanka 25 n.o.: Kavishka Anjula 2 for 55)
(Chandula Jayamanne 47, Kavish Kumara 27, Sahan Peiris 21, Kavishka Anjula 43 n.o., Jeni Fleming 28 n.o.: Lasith Embuldeniya 2 for 26) gue basis with each team confronting each other twice and the top two teams will clash in the final slotted to be played on July 29 at the SSC ground.