Cricket: Cinnamon Grand regain City 5 Star Sixes

Hosts, Cinnamon Grand Colombo regained the City Five Star Hotels Finance Cricket 'Sixes' 2016 title, at the 3rd Annual Tournament held at the Bloomfield Grounds last weekend Cinnamon Grand Colombo led by Janudika Sriyapala beat their sister hotel, Cinnamon Lakeside in the final. 

The tournament was conducted with six teams pooled into two groups. 

At completion of the league round, Cinnamon Lakeside finished on top of Group 'A', followed by Galadari Hotel (defending) and Hilton Colombo; Cinnamon Grand finished on top of Group 'B', followed by Cinnamon Hotels Management and Taj Samudra.(2015 runners-up).

In the knockouts Cinnamon Lakeside beat Cinnamon Hotels Management and Cinnamon Grand beat Galadari Hotel.
 
In the play off for third and fourth places, Cinnamon Hotels Management beat Galadari Hotel. 
Semi Finals: Cinnamon Lakeside beat Cinnamon Hotels and Cinnamon Grand beat Galadhari Hotels. 

Cinnamon Grand beat Cinnamon Lakeside by 34 runs in the grand final.

Cinnamon Grand 93 for 2 wickets (5) (Denuka Costa 52 not out)

Cinnamon Lakeside 59 for 3 wickets (5) (Tariq Mohamed 27, J. Sriyapala 2/11) 

Special Awards: 

Best Fielder: Rajeeve Michael (Cinnamon Grand)

Best Batsman and Man of the Final: Denuka Costa (Cinnamon Grand)

Best Bowler and Man of the Tournament: Janudika Sriyapala (Cinnamon Grand)