A defeat aura hung onto Dambulla Aura as they suffuered yet another defeat going down to Kandy Falcons by 77-runs in the first match at Pallekele, on Tuesday.
Kandy Falcons batting first, posted an uphill total of 193, on the back of Kamindu Mendis's 58, Andre Fletcher's 44 and Ashen Bandara's 44.
Dambulla, in return, had no answers to their opponents bowling, as they meekly and weakly surrendered to a heavy defeat.
Pathetically, the team's only second best score came off from the last man Noor Ahmad, 20, and folding for 116.
Carlos Brathwaite and Chamindu Wijesinghe finished with exact identical figures of three for 25, each.
Chief scores:
Kandy Falcons: 193 for six (20) (Kamindu Mendis 58, Andre Fletcher 44, Ashen Bandara 42 not out) beat
Dambulla Aura: 116 all out (14.2) (Chathuranga De Silva 25, Noor Ahamed 20, Chamindu Wijesinghe 3/25, Carlos Brathwaite 3/25)
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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