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in a smashing win over Army It was rugby at its best with Fred Moe, Kenijoji Rakata and Jimmy Bolakora running through Army defence. In the first half Fred Moe scored four superb tries. The CH and FC forwards gave an excellent account of themselves with Dushantha Lewke and Wijesekera playing their hearts out. Though CH and FC had a major share in the line outs most of the time Nalin Dissanayake kicked aimlessly, which kept the three quarters praying for the ball. After being outplayed in the first help the soldiers fought back early in the second half. But it lasted only for 20 minutes. It was CH's day what ever they did went right but Army looked a sorry picture, as they did not even tackle their opponents. CH and FC drew first blood in the eighth minute of the game when Fred Moe crashed through the Army line to touch down which was goaled by Nalin Dissanayake to give a 7-0 lead to CH. But the solders hit back immediately with Ian Simiyd intercepting a pass to score far right. The conversation was missed; at this time CH had a narrow lead at 7-5. A few minutes later CH and FC scored at will finding holes in the weak Army defense. In the first
half Fred Moe scored four tries along with former Isipathana players
Dinesh Kumara and Mayura Yuganthara touching down, once each. Nalin
Dissanayake converted three of them. For Army Ian Simiyo scored
late in the first half, which was his, second try. Both went unconverted
to leave the score 36-10 at the breather. Army's center
Ian Simiyd crashed through for his third try of the match. When
the final whistle went it was CH - 69, Army - 17. In this game both
teams scored 14 tries with the foreign players of both clubs scoring
12 of them. Referee - Dilroy Fernando Bloomfield
C&AC set for the kill Winning the toss and batting first Bloomfield hit up 281 and had the visitors struggling at 113 for 9 wickets by the close.The Reid Avenue boys got off to a flying start with openers Ian Daniel(66) and Sumalka Perera (50) putting on 108 runs for the first wicket. Both openers who flayed the visitors attack had nine boundaries each in their knocks. Last week's centurion Thilina Kandambi struck a stylish 47 off 66 balls that included four boundaries and two sixes as Bloomfield took full control of a mediocre bowling attack. Kandambi added 72 runs for the 5th wicket with all-rounder Kaushalya Weeraratne (45) as Bloomfield piled on the runs. Weeraratne cracked four boundaries and two sixes in his 44 ball innings. In reply the visitors struggled for runs as the Bloomfield pace-spin combination of Buddhika Ranaweera(2/21) Kaushalya Weeraratne(2/52) and Kaushal Lokuarachchi (4/14) ripped their batting apart. Bloomfield - 281 ( Sumalka Perera 50, Ian Daniel 66, Thilina Kandambi 47, Kaushalya Weeraratne 45, Mathesha Ranasinghe 24 n.o; Chatusaka Wickremasinghe 3/56 Chatura Ranasinghe 5/18) Seeduwa RSC -113/9 (Nimal Chaturanga 23; Buddhika Ranaweera 2/21, Kaushal Lokuarachchi 4/14, Kaushal Weeraratne 2/52) Gajanayake
129 for Chilaw Marians Gajanayake struck 129 in an innings that included 15 boundaries and three sixes and was well supported by P Jayasundera (86) and T. Lakshita (44) as Chilaw Marians declared at an imposing 318 for 9. In reply Matara SC were reduced to 54 for 5 wickets with Lakshita claiming 3 for 22. Chilaw
Marians - 318/9 decl. (M. Gajanayake 129 P. Jayasundera
86 T. Lakshita 44, S. Wijeratne 15; D. Thushara 4/101, Y. Ravinagar
2/73, R. Suranga 2/64) Colts
- Negombo even exchanges Batting first
Negombo SC hit up 210 and Colts SC replied with 49 for 2 wickets
by the close. Muthumudalige Pushpakumara picked up 4 for 67 in the
Negombo SC innings. Anura
Rohana proves his mettle in India Rohana, a product of the Royal Colombo Golf Club is in his Rookie year in professional golf. The Sri Lankan qualified for the Hero Honda Golf Tour in style, finishing second at the Qualifying School in Pune in June this year. Regarding his round, Rohana was pleased as punch. "I played some really consistent golf today," said the golfer who had an impressive 17 Greens in regulations. He returned seven birdies and erred just once when he three putted on the par-3 12th for a bogey. "I hit the ball really close today and was left with relatively short birdie putts, so my approach shots were the highlight of my round today," he added. The day began with Arjun Singh enjoying a three-stroke lead over the field. However it was a surprisingly wayward Arjun on the front nine as he repeatedly missed fairways off the tee. The penultimate day of a golf tournament is popularly known as the 'moving' day'. Each player tries to move into contention. On the third day of the Rs 18-lakh Kashmir Open being played at the outstanding Royal Springs Golf course, six players moved within two strokes of each other at the top. In the season opening event of the Hero Honda Golf Tour, which also happens to be the first 'major' of the 2003-04 season, defending champion Digvijay Singh shot a brilliant round of five-under 67 to join India's No 1 player Mukesh Kumar and the surprise packet Pappan on top of the leader-board at nine-under 207. Overnight leader Arjun Singh survived a disastrous stretch of two holes and was tied for the fourth place at eight-under 208 along-side Asia's No 1 player Jyoti Randhwa. |
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