Malan steers NW University South Africa to title victory
An unbeaten 64 off 46 inclusive of seven boundaries and two sixes by Jannerman Malan paved the way for North West University (NWU) South Africa to record a comfortable seven wicket win over Business Management School (BMS) Sri Lanka in the final of Red Bull Campus Cricket T20 World Cup to emerge champions, played at the Galle International Cricket yesterday.
BMS Sri Lanka the defending champions were aiming to repeat their performance, but they put themselves in a spot of bother in the early stages of their innings after they were asked to bat first.
NWU hero, Janneman Malan drives one towards the boundary during his knock of 64
BMS side’s batting was almost similar to their semi-final encounter against UOS Australia where they lost their top four wickets for 40 runs but recovered. But in this instance they were unable to repeat that feat as they lost three more wickets with the score on 70 and their chances of reaching 100 runs looked bleak.
But some sensible batting by the late order and helped by extras, they managed to end with a score of 121 but it was not enough.
Top scorer Malan was featured in two fruitful partnerships first of 48 runs for the second wicket with Marques Ackerman and the other an unbeaten 47 runs for the fourth wicket with Edrich Lubbe which helped them reach the target in the 16th over.
Scoreboard
BMS Sri Lanka innings
Geshan Wimaladharma lbw b Wingaardt 0
Dinuk Wickramanayake c Ackerman b Souter 21
Manoj Sarathchandra c Sendkwane b Matthews 24
Janith Liyanage c Durow b Soutter 0
Supeshala Jayatilleke c Malan b Soutter 0
Chamika Karunaratne b Le Roux 29
Mishane Silva c Malan b Matthews 08
Ranitha Liyanaarachchi c Edrich b Matthews 0
Amila Aponso run out 5
Koshan Dhanushka c Wihan b Durow 12
Akthab Cader not out 0
Extras (lb2, nb1, w5, p14) 22
Total (all out: 18.4 overs) 121
Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-39, 3-40, 4-47, 5-51, 6-70, 7-70, 8-85, 9-118, 10-121.
Bowling: Jovaun van Wyngaardt 3-0-33-1, Julian Soutter 4-0-16-3, J.P. Le Roux 4-1-21-2, Neil Durow 3.4-0-13-1, Dyllin Matthews 4-0-22-3.
NWU South Africa innings
Wihan Lubbe st Sarathchandra b Dhanushka 2
Janneman Malan not out 64
Marques Ackerman c Silva b Wimaladharma 23
Edrich Lubbe c Sarathchandra b Dhanushka 7
Ruan Haasbroek not out 20
Extras (b1, lb2, w3) 6
Total (3 wickets: 15.2 overs) 122
Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-58, 3-75
Bowling: Amila Aponso 4-0-41-0, Koshan Dhanushka 4-0-31-2, Geshan Wimaladharma 3.2-0-16-1, Ranitha Liyanaarchchi 1-0-10-0, Chamika Karunaratne 1-0-10-0, Janith Liyanage 1-0-4-0, Supeshala Jayatilleke 1-0-7-0.