Asiri Hospitals meet Deutsche Bank in final
Asiri Hospitals and Deutsche Bank AG, both in their maiden appearances in Mercantile Cricket, will meet in 9th Stafford Motors-Honda Trophy MCA ‘G’ Division Cricket final today (25) at the MCA grounds, commencing 10.00am.
Asiri Hospitals unbeaten path to the final: Round-robin stage- Beat PickMe by 53 runs, Intrepid Group by 168 runs, Access Group by 29 runs, Nor Lanka by 95 runs and Abans Group by 49 runs, to finish on top of Group ‘G’. In the elimination stage, they beat Kelani Cables by 171 runs in the pre-quarter finals, beat Maliban Biscuits ‘B’ by 9 wickets in the quarter-finals and beat Hayleys Group ‘B’ by 13 runs in the semi-finals.
Deutsche Bank AG path to the final: Round-robin stage- Beat Zillione Technologies by 17 runs, Lanka Hospitals by 5 runs, lost to HNB Assurance by 4 wickets, No result against ICBT and beat Ceyline Holdings by 26 runs, to finish 2nd in Group ‘H’. In the elimination stage, they beat MAS Silueta ‘B’ by 26 runs in the pre-quarter finals, beat Nor Lanka by 12 runs in the quarter-finals and beat A Baur and Co. by 18-runs in the semi-finals.
Teams:
Asiri Hospitals (from): Madura Jayasena (Captain),Dilee Sharika (Vice Captain), Isuru Jayarathne, Chaminda Janapriya, Sameepa Liyanage, Koshan Jayawickrema, Lahiru Chamara Perera, Amal Rupasinghe, Irulan Sutheshkumar, Malinda Wijesinghe, Niroshan Gamage, Chandrasiri Kumara, Rajitha Weerasinghe, Dileepa Nilupul, Shehan Wijesinghe
Deutsche Bank (from): Charitha Dumbarage(Captain.), Deshan Bastiampillai (Vice Captain), Pasan Jayasinghe, Niranjan Dabare, Thivanka de S. Wijeyeratne, Janith de Silva, Reza Mansoor, Mahendra Herath, Piyum Samuel, Zahan Chondon, Nilan de Silva, Yohan Fernando, Suwan Fernando, Shivane Allirajah, Dumindu Moderagamage, Praveen Fernando and Akalanka Liyanarachchi.