United Tractor and Equipment emerge champs
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United Tractor and Equipment emerged champions in the Caterpillar Challenge Trophy Cricket Tournament for the second, consecutive year. The tournament held in Chennai, India recently featured defending champions UTE competing against Caterpillar dealers from the Bangalore District; Gmmco India and Tractors India Pvt Ltd (TIPL) along with a team representing Caterpillar Inc.
Winning its second straight championship, Sri Lanka’s UTE walked away with this year’s Challenge Trophy with the TIPL team as the Runners up. UTE and TIPL faced each other in the final which was a 15-over game. UTE won the toss and elected to field. Batting first TIPL were all out for 58 in 14 overs. Needing 59 to win UTE cruised to their target reaching 61/1 in just 8.1 overs. The skipper of the UTE team, Sandun Senavirathne was presented the award for the Best Batsman and Nirmal Jayasooriya also from UTE received the Best Fielder award for his performance. Kasun Dananjaya was adjudged Man of the series.   - LR