The Southern Super Kings team recently managed to win the Championship of the Physically Challenged Premier League T20 Cricket Tournament, which was organized by the Physically Challenged Cricket Association and the National Youth Service Council.
5 teams covering the entire island were included in this tournament, which was held to select players for the Physically Challenged National Cricket Team.
Among them, the North Central Volcanoes team qualified for the Finals. The Southern Super Kings team managed to get an easy victory by 9 wickets in the final match, which was held at the Panadura Public Stadium. They finish the tournament undefeated.
| Tournament results | |||
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results | |
| 1 | Western Super Warriors | North Central Volcanoes | Western Super Warriors won by 18 runs |
| 2 | Southern Super Kings | Sabaragamuwa Royal Stars | Southern Super Kings won by 5 wickets |
| 3 | North West Titans | North Central Volcanoes | North Central Volcanoes won by 3 wickets |
| 4 | Sabaragamuwa Royal Stars | Western Super Warriors | Western Super Warriors won by 10 runs |
| 5 | North Central Volcanoes | Southern Super Kings | Southern Super Kings won by 32 runs |
| 6 | Western Super Warriors | North West Titans | North West Titans won by 7 wickets |
| 7 | North Central Volcanoes | Sabaragamuwa Royal Stars | North Central Volcanoes won by 52 runs |
| 8 | Southern Super Kings | Western Super Warriors | Southern Super Kings won by 10 runs |
| 9 | Sabaragamuwa Royal Stars | North West Titans | Sabaragamuwa Royal Stars won by 10 wickets |
| 10 | North West Titans | Southern Super Kings | Southern Super Kings won by 74 runs |
| FINAL MATCH | |||
| 11 | North Central Volcanoes | Southern Super Kings | Southern Super Kings won by 9 wickets |
Southern Super Kings Team:
Dulan Priyashantha (Captain), Amila Nuwan, Chanuka Dilshan, Kasun Epa, Lakshita Weerakoon, M. I. M. Akram, Nadeeshan Amarasena, Nuwan Asanka, Paul Kumar, Pramon Chaturanga, Sanjeeva Premalal, Suresh Priyankara, Tharindu Lakshan, Tharindu Thivanka.
Final match, Panadura, 20, January 2024, Physical Challenge Premier League 2023
o Stadium – Public Stadium, Panadura
o Toss – Southern Super Kings
The North Central Volcanoes team, who entered the field to bat first as per the invitation of the Southern Super Kings team who won the toss, faced an unexpected predicament. It was the weakest innings played by a team in this tournament in the Finals.
The bowlers of Southern Super Kings managed to restrict their innings to 33 runs in 66 balls. Among them, Captain Dulan Priyashantha took the lead. He bowled only 3 overs and took 4 wickets for 7 runs. In addition to this, M. I. M. Akram took 3 wickets for 05 runs, while Chanuka Dilshan and Nadeeshan Amarasena took one wicket each.
Sowntharajan Sivasritharan was the top scorer for North Central Volcanoes. He faced 19 balls and scored 17 runs with 3 fours. None of the other batsmen could score double digit runs.
The Southern Super Kings, who entered the field chasing a target of 34 runs, scored 34 runs by using only 26 balls and losing only one wicket.
In that innings, the opening batsman Tharindu Thivanka faced 11 balls and scored 18 not out with 2 fours and a six. In addition to that, Captain Dulan Priyashantha, who showed skill in bowling, scored 9 runs without losing with 2 fours in 7 balls. Those skills also led him to be named as the Hero of the Match.
Brief scoreboard of the match
North Central Volcanoes – All out 33 (11.0) Sowntharajan Sivasritharan 17, Dhulan Prishantha 4/07, M. I. M. Akram 3/05
Southern Super Kings – 34 not out (4.2) Tharindu Thivanka 18 not out, Dulan Prishantha 9 not out, Duminda Wijeratne 1/13
Southern Super Kings won by 9 wickets.
The Batsmen who showed talent in the tournament
The highest scorer of the tournament was Duminda Wijeratne of the North Central Volcanoes team. He scored 145 points in the 5 matches held in the first round and won the first seat there. His scores included a 59 against Western Super Warriors and an unbeaten 60 against Sabaragamuwa Royal Stars.
Gayan Gunaratne of the Western Super Warriors team took the 2nd place in that list. He scored 144 runs in 4 matches. That figure includes 52 against North Central Volcanoes and 89 against Sabaragamuwa Royal Stars. The 89 runs scored in 55 balls against Sabaragamuwa became the highest number of runs scored by a batsman in this tournament.
Suresh Priyankara of Southern Super Kings, who scored 121 runs in 5 matches, came third in this list. His best innings was his unbeaten 50 off 22 balls against Western Super Warriors.
The fourth place in the list is Sani Udugama of the North Central Volcanoes team who scored 110 runs with a half century in 4 matches and the 5th place is Isuru Fernando who scored 110 runs in 4 matches for the North West Titans team.
The bowlers who showed talent in the tournament
It is special that the bowlers of the Southern Super Kings team have the first four in the list of highest wicket takers in the tournament.
Chanuka Dilshan of Southern Super Kings, who bowled left-arm leg spin, won first place. He took 15 wickets in 5 matches. His best bowling was 6 wickets for 10 runs against the Western Super Warriors. In addition to that, his achievements also include 4 wickets for 11 runs against the North Central Volcanoes team.
Chanuka Dilshan
Chanuka Dilshan, who also showed talent as a batsman, entered the field in 3 of the 5 matches he participated in and scored 76 runs, being ranked 10th in the batsman’s list.
His best innings of the tournament was his 49 off 29 balls with 9 fours against the North West Titans.
Chanuka Dilshan is an active player in the first-class Cricket field and has taken 66 wickets in 20 matches so far.
The 2nd place in this list was M. I. M. Akram, with the number of wickets he took being 11. The 3rd place was taken by Nadishan Amarasena and Dulan Priyashantha, who took 7 wickets each.
The 5th place was won by Isuru Fernando of the North West Titans team. He took 6 wickets in 4 matches.
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