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Premier League Cricket
Bloomfield bite the dust
By M. Shamil Amit
Panadura made mighty Bloomfield eat humble pie when they crushed them by seven wickets in their inter-club Premier League cricket encounter concluded at Reid Avenue yesterday. The match was completed just a few minutes after lunch with Panadura chasing a target of 205 after resuming their overnight score of 66 for 2. They reached the winning score with minimum effort.

Panadura dominated play from day one when they bowled out their opponents for 102 and put them under pressure. The writing was on the wall for the home team though fielding more experienced and better players, they were not given to settle down by the Panadura boys.

It was Dilruwan Perera’s unbeaten ton inclusive of nine boundaries and a six who was involved in two useful partnerships - one for the third wicket of 67 runs with Nadeera Nawela and the other an unbroken fourth wicket stand of 84 - run stand with Sunendra Kumara that gave them the victory.

Meanwhile there were three other outright wins with Moors overcoming Singha SC Ambalangoda by five wickets at Braybrooke Place, BRC beating Tamil Union at the P. Sara Stadium and debutantes Badureliya CC crushing Galle CC by identical margins: an innings and 32 runs at R. Premadasa Stadium. All these matches were concluded a few minutes after lunch.

In the other matches of the Premier League tournament it was the outstation clubs whicht dominated the scene with Chilaw Marians, Ragama CC and Sebastianites gaining first inning points over prominent clubs NCC, CCC and SSC while Police and Lankan CC too recorded first innings wins over Saracens SC and Kurunegala YCC.

At Reid Avenue
Bloomfield - 102 and 267 (Kumar Dharmasena 58, Gihan de Silva 38, Omesh Wijesiriwardena 38 n.o.; Kelum Gangodawila 3 for 64, Suneth Gayan 2 for 43, Amila Perera 2 for 42)
Panadura - 164 and (66/2 o’night) 206 for 3 (Nadeera Nawela 35, Dilruwan Perera 100 n.o., Sunendra Kumara 26 n.o.)

At Braybrooke Place
Moors - 346 and 76 for 5 (Hemantha Boteju 21, Ruwin Peiris 19.; Neville Liyanage 3 for 44)
Singha SC - 194 and (80/5 o’night) 227Amila Wettasinghe 97, Pasan Weeraratne 62.; Anil Ridigammanagedera 3 for 36, Sujeewa de Silva 2 for 41, Dinesh Asanka 2 for 38, Rangana Herath 2 for 26)

At Sara Stadium
Tamil Union - 193 and (55/3 o’night) 176 (D.K. Ranaweera 28, Nimesh Perera 17, Mevan Fernando 67 n.o.; Sajeewa Weerakoon 5 for 50)
BRC - 401 for 7 declared (Chamil Perera 152, Dhanuka Pathirana 68, Varuna Waragoda 64.; Tharaka Samaratunge 2 for 79, Pradeep Jayaprakash 2 for 92, Ranga Dias 2 for 92)

At R. Premadasa Stadium
Badureliya CC – 358 (Nuwan Shiroman115, Sudeepa Perera 66, Hemantha Wickremaratne54,Damith Hunukumbura 40,Suresh Perera 23, Suranjith Silva 16, Pubudu Seneviratne20; RodneyPradeep 5 for 95, Achela Ranasinghe 3 for113)

Galle CC - 196 and 130 (Dushantha Sureshchandra 43, Rodney Pradeep 15, R. Karunasena 17.; Danuja Nandana 3 for 20, Sudeepa Perera 3 for 43, Alankara Asanka 2 for 11)

At CCC
CCC - 222 and 227 for 4 (Michael Vandort 96, Nisal Randika 88, Chamara Kapugedera 31 n.o.; Upul Indrasiri 3 for 42)

Ragama CC - 435 for 5 declared (Indika de Saram 120, Duminda Perera 117, Sanjaya Rodrigo 35, Suren Perera 15, Chanaka Wijesinghe 44, Dushantha Ranatunge 78 n.o.; Ishan Ratnayake 3 for 91)

At NCC
Chilaw Marians - 251 and 261 (Gayan Wijekoon 55, Mahela Udawatte 44, Charith Sylvester 40, Chandana Aravinda 21, Ishan Muthalip 17.; Upul Chandana 5 for 85, Jeremy Saverymuthupulle 3 for 8)

NCC - 246 (Kosala Kulasekera 89, Thilina Massmulla 83, Lasith Fernando 31.; Hasantha Fernando 6 for 41, Gayan Wijekoon 2 for 40) and 40 for 2 (Hashan Tilekratne 22 n.o.)

At Thurstan grounds
Saracens 222 and 168 for 5 (Nilakshan Abeyratne 37, Thilina Massmulla 20, Kasun Bodisha 28, Harsha Cooray 32 n.o., Nalin Wijesinghe 26 n.o.; Manjula Jayawardena 3 for 61)

Police - 380 (Nihal Soysa 92, Supun Nirmala 47, Saman Wijeratne 22, Chaminda Liyanage 24, Ravin Nirmal 49, Dhammika Rajapakse 30, Sahan Wijesekera 37.; Malinga Surappullige 2 for 69, Pradeep Nishantha 2 for 87)
At SSC

Sebastianites - 278 and 337 for 7 declared (Chamara Silva 86, Prasanna Jayawardena 83, Amila Sandaruwan 31, Amal Peiris 19, Dinusha Fernando 33, Milinda Siriwardena 39, Charith Buddika 26 n.o.; Dhammika Prasad 3 for 86)
SSC – 191 and 215 for 3 (Jeewan Mendis 80, Tharanga Paranavithana 30, Anushka Polonowita 54 n.o., Damith Indika 34 n.o.; Himesh Silva 2 for 380
At FTZ Katunayake

Lankan CC - 199 and 252 for 9 declared (Upul Fernando 82, Rasika Priyadharshana 35, Yasas Tilekeratne 25, Chaminda Jayasingha 19, Chandana Pushpalal 19.; C. Amarasinghe 3 for 57)

KYCC - 149 and 118 for 2 (Asela Wewelwala 20, Ajantha Weerappuli 54 n.o., Janaka Ediriweerage 26 n.o.)

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