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SSC takes Premier League after nine years
By S.R. Pathiravithana
It was a long wait, but for them it was worth it. SSC had clinched the Premier League division one championship after nine long years. The last they won it was in 1997.

This time’s achievement has a special flavour for them. This year they won it without the services of either Sri Lanka skipper Marvan Atapattu or his national deputy Mahela Jayawardena for any of the matches.

Besides this they also did not have the services of many of their other seniors in most of the games owing to the national call.. Nevertheless SSC had one significant achievement. In the final round SSC registered eight outright wins on the trot while dropping only one match in the initial round. Inspite of this SSC also won the twenty-twenty tournament organized by the SLC.

Coming back into the premier league tournament, off spinner Suraj Mohammed who was adjudged the best bowler of the tournament bagged 55 wickets in nine matches and booked his passage to Bangladesh with the Sri Lanka ‘A’ side. Another feature that also stood out for them was the timely century by skipper Avishka Gunawardena in the final.

Lanka Bell has been backing SSC’s cause for cricket for the last three years with a generous package. The team was hosted to a reception at the SSC pavilion on Thursday.

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