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Bad light brings early closure
The ten Premier League encounters played around the island was called
off early due to bad light with all the matches being stopped at
4.30 p.m. Chilaw Marians helped by two useful partnerships fought
their way back on the second day’s play of the Premier League
cricket match against Colts played at the Colts grounds. It was
Malintha Gajanayake who came to the rescue of the Marians making
an unbeaten 65 being involved in both the partnerships.
With Hasantha Fernando he put on a stand of 97 for the fifth wicket
and with Gayan Wijekoon an unbroken sixth wicket stand of 50 enabling
the side to finish on 206 for 5. In the morning session Colts resuming
on their overnight score of 155 for 5 went on to make 215 with overnight
batsman Malinda Warnapura making 92 n.o. in reply to the Marians
162 in the first innings.
The
encounter between Tamil Union and NCC at the P. Sara Stadium is
set for an interesting finish with the latter being set a target
of 297 for victory with them having the entire day. At the R. Premadasa
Stadium Ragama CC put in another top performance when they got the
better of the strong Bloomfield in the first innings. The Bloomfielders
have a fight in their hands when play resumes today.
At
Rifle Green Sebastianites amassed a massive 431 with Amila Sandaruwan
making 136 and Lankan CC in their turn were 216 for 5. SSC have
recorded a first innings win over last week’s giant killers
Panadura while Moors who made 301 too have already obtained a first
innings having bowled out CCC for 175. First innings wins have been
secured by Saracens and Badureliya CC over Air Force and Police
with the match at the BRC grounds and Galle not completed yet. The
match at Galle was called off at 2.30 p.m. due to heavy shower.
At Rifle Green.
Sebastianites
(325/4 o’night) 431 (Amila Sandaruwan 136, Dinusha Fernando
90, Chamara Silva 27, Amal Peiris 44, Prasanna Jayawardena 38, Charitha
Buddhika 41, Nilantha Cooray 17.; Dinesh Seneviratne 5 for 63, Rasika
Priyadharshana 3 for 19))
Lankan
CC 216 for 5 (Chaminda Jayasinghe 62, Chanaka Withanage 60, Upul
Fernando 26, Nalaka de Silva 27; Nilantha Cooray 2 for 25)
At
R. Premadasa Stadium
Bloomfield 161 (Thilina Kandambi 46, Shanuka Dissanayake 20, Gihan
de Silva 20, Tharanga Lakshitha 23.; Ruwan Dilruk 3 for 29, Harsha
Nilantha 2 for 36, Kaushalya Weeraratne 2 for 36, Dharshana Gamage
2 for 53) and 126 for 5 (Ian Daniel 42, Chinthaka Jayasinghe 19,
Malinda Totuwilage 42 n.o.; Kaushalya Weeraratne 3 for 27))
Ragama
CC (100/3 o’night) 198 (Suren Perera 39, Chanaka Wijesinghe
38, Indika de Saram 30, Duminda Perera 41, Dushantha Ranatunge 23;
Amila Mendis 5 for 56, Ian Daniel 2 for 10, Tharanga Lakshitha 2
for 53)
At
SSC
SSC (186/7 o’night) 228 (Kaushal Lokuarachchi 55, Nuwan Zoysa
50, Radhive Fernando 28.; Kelum Gangodawila 5 for 59, Sunendra Kumara
2 for 28, Dilruwan Perera 2 for 5) and 54 for no loss (Tharanga
Paranavithana 26 n.o., Radhive Fernando 19 n.o.)
Panadura
193 (Anjula Perera 83, Nadeera Nawela 37, Kelum Gangodawila 25 Lahiru
Fernando 20.; Nuwan Zoysa 3 for 36, Chaminda Vidanapathirana 3 for
56. Kaushal Lokuarachchi 2 for 25, Dunil Abeydeera 2 for 16)
At
CCC
Moors 301 (Hemantha Boteju 82, Ruwin Peiris 59, Dhammika Sudarshana
26, Anil Ridigammanagedera 38, Wesley Fernando 24 n.o.; Nishitha
Rupasinghe 3 for 38, Ganganath Ratnayake 3 for 47, Sohan Boralessa
2 for 80) and 35 for 1
CCC (14/1 o’night) 175 (Nisal Randika 63, Tharindu Mendis
43, Sohan Boralessa 20. Damith Gunatileke 3 for 30, Rangana Herath
3 for 43, D. Perera 2 for 15)
At
P. Sara Stadium
Tamil Union 193 (Rally Tissera 54, Nandika Ranjith 42, Pradeep Jayaprakash
45, Bradman Ediriweera 15.; Akalanka Ganegama 4 for 43, Kosala Kulasekera
2 for 27) and 215 (Nandika Ranjith 61, Ranga Dias 42, Bradman Ediriweera
22, Rally Tissera 20, Pradeep Jayaprakash 18.; Akalanka Ganegama
4 for 72, Thilina Thushara 3 for 29, Upul Chandana 2 for 30)
NCC
(78/9 o’night) 112 (Kanchana Gunawardena 75; Nandika Ranjith
7 for 37, Ranga Dias 3 for 32) and 20 for no loss.
At
Colts
Chilaw Marians 162 (Hasantha Fernando 48, Mahela Udawatte 25.; Ishara
Amarasinghe 4 for 40, Niroshan Bandaratileke 3 for 28) and 206 for
5 (Hasantha Fernando 52, Charith Sylvester 23, Malintha Gajanayake
65 n.o., Gayan Wijekoon 25 n.o.; Jeewantha Kulatunge 2 for 57).
Colts
(155/5 o’night) 215 (Nirmal Wickramaratne 59, Sajith Fernando
22, Malinda Warnapura 92 n.o.; Gayan Wijekoon 3 for 37, Manoj Chanaka
3 for 38, Praneeth Jayasundara 2 for 15, Janaka Gunaratne 2 for
28))
At
Thurstan grounds
Air Force 177 (Rohan Galappaththi 39, Chamila Gamage 35, Mahesh
Dissanayake 29, Abuthahir Rizan 25.; Ruchira Palliyaguru 4 for 48,
Malinga Surappullige 2 for 33) and 46 for 1
Saracens
(42/1 o’night) 191 (Kasun Bodisha 39, Dilip Fernando 25, Chandika
Sisira Kumara 37, Harsha Cooray 46 n.o.; Chamila Gamage 4 for 61,
Umal Irandika 2 for 7, Dinesh de Silva 2 for 48)
At
BRC
Galle CC (301/9 o’night) 316 (Ruwan Galappaththi 82, Ruchira
Karunaratne 51, Amila Ratnayake 39, S. Silva 37, Duminda Wickramanayake
48 ; Tyronne Gamage 3 for 90, Sajeewa Weerakoon 3 for 63, Duncan
Arnolda 2 for 29)
BRC.273 for 7 (Dulip Liyanage 86, Dhanuka Pathirana 49, Duncan Arnolda
25, Chamara de Soysa 43, Thamara Abeyratne 23.; U. Chaturanga 3
for 65, A. Ratnayake 2 for 72)
At
Police Park
Badureliya CC 242 (Damitha Hunukumbura 75, Sudeepa Perera 29, Amal
Dalugoda 47 n.o.; Dhammika Rajapakse 3 for 37, Anura Priyantha 3
for 52, Mohamed Shashmil 2 for 54) and 10 for no loss.
Police
219 (Nihal Soysa 38, Supun Nirmal 29, Dhammika Rajapakse 25, Ravin
Nirmal 21, Sahan Wijesekera 69 n.o.; Amal Dalugoda 2 for 42, S.
Silva 2 for 23, Pramuka Liyanage 2 for 51)
At
Galle
Singha SC (163/6 o’night) 209 (Amila Wettasinghe 55, Manjula
Soysa 42, Suminda Mendis 19, T.M. Sampath 17, Udara Weerasinghe
23, Pasan Weeraratne 15; Muditha Maduwantha 3 for 55, Chandrika
Amarasinghe 3 for 55, Iroshan de Silva 2 for 17) KYCC.84 for 4 (Ajantha
Weerappuli 25, Chanaka Ediriweerage 30 n.o.; Neville Liyanage 2
for 27)
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