Moors Sports Club and Bloomfield Cricket & Athletic Club registered innings wins in their encounters against Nugegoda Sports & Welfare Club and Chilaw Marians Cricket Club respectively.
Sithara Gimhana played a pivotal role in Moors Sports Club’s win as he notched up a match-winning century in their first innings.
Gimhana struck 134 runs off 218 balls with 13 fours and 2 sixes helping Moors SC post a solid score – 325 in the first innings.
National capped speedster Milan Rathnayake was the standout performer with the ball for victorious Moors SC as he claimed 6 wickets in the match.
The off-spinner Raivindu Fernando was the chief architect of Bloomfield Cricket & Athletic Club’s win. Fernando picked up a match bag of 11 wickets for 92 runs dismantling Chilaw Marians’ batting lineup.
Brief Scores
Moors Sports Club – 325 (101) Sithara Gimhana 134, Janishka Perera 63, Pasindu Sooriyabandara 27, Milan Rathnayake 27, Shiran Fernando 21, Maduka Liyanapathiranage 5/78, Chamikara Edirisinghe 3/97, T M Sampath 2/71
Nugegoda Sports & Welfare Club – 104 (30.1) Angelo Perera 27, Chamikara Edirisinghe 25, Milan Rathnayake 4/32, Shiran Fernando 2/28, Ramesh Mendis 2/33 & 148 (45.1) Angelo Perera 28, Chamikara Edirisinghe 27*, Maduranga Zoysa 27, Kevin Perera 20, Chamath Gomez 20, Shiran Fernando 3/23, Ramesh Mendis 3/41, Milan Rathnayake 2/25
Result – Moors SC won by an innings & 73 runs
Chilaw Marians Cricket Club – 109 (25) Thikshila De Silva 50, Ravindu Fernando 5/42, Jeffrey Vandersay 4/33 & 77 (28.1) Ravindu Fernando 6/50, Sahan Nanayakkara 2/9
Bloomfield Cricket & Athletic Club – 190 (58.2) Lahiru Madushanka 63, Kasun Abeyratne 28, Ron Chandraguptha 25, Isitha Dew Wijesundara 21, Duvindu Tillakaratne 5/55, Shehan Jayasuriya 3/38
Result – Bloomfield Cricket & Athletic Club won by an innings & 4 runs
