Sri Lanka under 23 cricketers posted an easy six wicket win over the touring Nepal national team at the Bloomfield ground recently. Taking first lease of the wicket, the tourists were wrapped up for 127 runs with Pritam Baskota top scoring with an unbetean 41. The local team with opener Udara Jayasundera leading the way [...]

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Sri Lanka under 23 cricketers posted an easy six wicket win over the touring Nepal national team at the Bloomfield ground recently.
Taking first lease of the wicket, the tourists were wrapped up for 127 runs with Pritam Baskota top scoring with an unbetean 41.

The local team with opener Udara Jayasundera leading the way with a polished 53 runs reached their target with six wickets in hand.
The Nepal team is on a short tour prior to their departure to Singapore for the Emerging Trophy which is to be conducted by the Singapore CA.

The other participating teams are Afghanistan, the UAE, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the host country Singapore.

The Nepal team tour has been organized by Travelon Limited who are also the ground handling and tour operators. Nepal 127 in 36 overs (Anil Mandel 23, Pritam Baskota 41 n.o., Rahul Bishokarma 24, Kasun Madusanka 2 for 23, Akila Dananjaya 2 for 30)

SL u. 23 129 for 4 (Udara Jayasundera 53, Shehan Jayasuriya 26, Rumesh Buddhika 15 n.o., Kithruwan Vithanage 21 n.o. Naresh Giril 2 for 29)

Nepal suffer another defeat

The touring Nepal National Emerging cricket team suffered their second defeat when they were trounced by the Sri Lanka under 23 squad at the NCC ground recently.

After the home team ran up a match winning score of 254 for nine wickets, the tourists were bundled out for 121 with the only resistance from opener Anil Kumar who top scored with 51 runs.

SL U. 23 254 for 9 in 50 overs (C. Kumar 48, S. Jayasuriya 42, D. Gunatillake 39, N. Dickwella 25, C. Jayampathi 29, B. Regmi 2 for 36)
Nepal 121 in 39 overs (Anil Kumar 51, Prithu Baskota 22, Shakthi Prasad 21 n.o., L. Jayaratna 4 for 18, C. Kumara 2 for 8) (BM)




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