Cricket: KDU and ICBT reach Red Bull T20 final

Kothalawala Defence Academy (KDU) and International College of Business and Technology (ICBT) qualified to meet in the final of the Red Bull T20 Campus cricket tournament when they won their semi-final encounters played at the Thurstan ground on Saturday (12).   KDU coasted to a five win over Royal Institute of Colombo (RIC) while ICBT got the better of National School of Business Management (NSBM) by 57 runs.   In the match between KDU and RIC a knock of 66 by Milan Abeysekera was in vain as Ashen Perera matched it with a 57 enabling KDU to reach the target of 142 runs with five balls to spare.   The other match saw two fine knocks by Anushka Perera and Shehan Jayasuirya enabling ICBT who took first lease, make a challenging score of 143 while NSBM in their turn was able to muster a score of only 86.   At Thurstan: KDU won by 5 wickets RIC 141 for 7 in 20 overs (MilanAbeysekera 66, Jehan James 26: Saranga Dharmapriya 2 for 25) KDU 145 for 5 in 19.1 overs (Ashen Perera 57: Rishen Mathangaweera 2 for 11)   At Thurstan: ICBT won by 57 runs ICBT 143 for 7 in 20 overs (Anushka Perera 50, Shehan Jayasuriya 36: Thilan Perera 3 for 14, Jason Bultjens 2 for 33) NSBM 86 in 14.3 overs (Dushan Perera 32, Damith Weerasinghe 16: Anuk de Alwis 3 for 10, A. Nanayakkara 2 for 6, Udara Hettige 2 for 8)