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Confident CH have it easy

By Harry Jayachandra

CH and FC played extremely well to defeat Army by 32 points (2 goals, 3 tries and 1 penalty) to 20 ( 2 goals and two penalties). This was in their Caltex Trophy ‘A’ Division which was played at Maitland Crescent yesterday.

The victors were on song from the kick off. They completely rattled Army. In just the fifth minute of play, the forwards went on the rampage. This ended with prop Jayananda Ranaweera touching down. Centre Saliya Kumara missed the conversion. It was not a costly miss as five minutes later centre Mathisha Silva scored the first of his two tries. This was after the the forwards and backs combined superbly. Kumara was once again off target.

After absorbing more than 20 minutes of intense pressure from the home side, Army finally got on the scoreboard. A CH player was penalized and Kapila Knolton obliged with a straight forward penalty. The next ten minutes saw both Knolton and Kumara putting over penaties for their respective sides.

CH came alive once again in the last ten minutes of the first half. The backs began to run the Army defence ragged by spreading the ball wide and importantly holding on to it. First Kumara touched and converted his own try. Then winger Zakir Badurdeen went over. Kumara converted to give his side an imposing 27 points to 6 – lead at lemons.

Army came flying out of the blocks in the second half. A good backline move saw Knolton touching down. He made no mistake with the conversion. Then centre Asanka Perera scored. Knolton once again converted to reduce to the deficit to one goal. Unfortunately Army’s joy was short lived. Mathisha Silva made sure of a CH win with a fine try.