Malinga and Tharanga shine

The same fate befell the second day’s play of the Sirasa Premier League cricket encounters with only two matches being played. The four matches Bloomfield vs SSC at Reid Avenue, Colts vs Moors at Colts, CCC vs Chilaw Marians at Braybrooke Place and Tamil Union vs Badureliya CC was abandoned for the second successive day. Only two matches were played and that too after a delayed start.

BRC amass 302/9
Half centuries by Dilshan Vitharana and Chamil Perera helped BRC amassed 302 for 9 before declaring from their overnight score of 183 for 3 on the second day’s play of the Sirasa Premier League cricket tournament played at the BRC grounds yesterday.
BRC (183/3 o’night) 302 for 9 declared in 98 overs (Dilshan Vitharana 86, Chamil Perera 85, Viraj Perera 41, Chamara Soysa 32, Thamara Abeyratne 24.; Pubudu Wickrama 3 for 81, Rasika Fernando 2 for 41, Sanjeewa Roshan 2 for 81)

Panadura 21 for 2 in 11.3 overs Malinga and Tharanga shine
NCC’s national players Lasith Malinga and Upul Tharanga put up impressive performances in their Sirasa Premier League encounter against Ragama on the second day’s play at the FTZ grounds in Katunayake. Malinga ripped through the Ragama batting to bowl them out for 114 and then Tharanga slammed a quick fire 76 with eight boundaries and two sixes which saw NCC ending the day on 175 for 6.

The match will be continued at 9.30 a.m. today.

NCC 221 in 68.4 overs (Kumar Sangakkara 63, Lasith Fernando 57, Malintha Gajanayake 20, Upul Tharanga 19, Russel Arnold 15; Kaushalya Weeraratne 4 for 14, Dharshana Gamage 2 for 37, Ruwan Dilruk 2 for 52, Daminda Dharshanapriya 2 for 63) and 175 for 6 in 41.1 overs (Upul Tharanga 76, Ishan Muthaliph 25, Kumar Sangakkara 22, Sahan Wijeratne 18, Malintha Gajanayake 15 n.o.; Ruwan Dilruk 4 for 61)

Ragama CC (56/2 o’night) 114 (Malintha Totuwilage 32, Upul Indrasiri 24.; Lasith Malinga 4 for 14, Tharaka Kottehwa 2 for 14, Chanaka Komasaru 2 for 20).