Bartleets new mercantile cricket sixes champs (12 May 1999)

Bartleet Sports Club defeated defending champions Access Group of Companies to annex the Union Assurance sponsored Mercantile six a side cricket championship in the final at the Mercantile Cricket Association grounds yesterday

12-May-1999

12 May 1999

Bartleets new mercantile cricket sixes champs

Ranjan Anandappa

In the semi-finals Access beat Coats Tootal and Bartleets beat Arpico in fairly tall scoring matches.

Mabroc Teas who beat a strong Hatton National Bank team at the Colts grounds in a pre-quarter final match on Saturday were dismissed for 5 runs, the lowest in Mercantile six a side tournaments in their quarter final match against champions Bartleets.

Mr.H.Rehmanjee the Chief Executive Officer Union Assurance was the chief guest. Deepal Abeysekera the Assistant Marketing Manager Union Assurance and the President of the MCA, Gehan Siribaddena, also graced the occasion.

Results from quarter finals

Access group beat John Keells

John Keells 58 (Sujith Janaka 22 n.o, Indika de Saram 2 for 5)

Access 64 for 1 (Indika de Saram 22, Suresh Perera 19 n.o,)

Coats Tootal beat ACL Cables

ACL Cables 29 for 3 (S. Sampath 14 n.o, Riyaz Farook 2 for 3.)

Coats Tootal 31 for 1 (Harith Jayasuriya 16 n.o,)

Arpico beat Janashakthi Insurance

Janashakthi 37 (Prakash Schafter 14, Ranil Pieris 2 for 5)

Arpico 38 for 1 (R.Kariyawasam 29 n.o) Barleet 61 (Ashan Ranaweera 26, Dammika Rajapakse 23, R.Sampath 3 for 6)

Mabroc Teas 5 (A.Tillekeratne 2 for 3 , S. Rajapakse 2 for 12)

Semi-finals

Access beat Coats Tootal

Access 72 for 3 (Jeevantha Kulatunga 17, Sanjeeva Jayaratne 23 n.o)

Coats Tootal 71 for 3 (Harith Jayasuriya 33, T.Embuldeniya 15,)

Bartleet beat Arpico

Barleet 70 for 3 (Ashan Ranaweera 17, S.K.Perera 1, A.Edirisinghe 26 n.o,A.Wickrematileka 2 for 10)

Arpico 42 for 4 (R.Kariyawasam 18, A.Edirisinghe 2 for 5)

Final

Bartleet beat Access

Bartleet 62 for 4 (Dammika Rajapakse 17, Ashan Ranaweera 23, S.K Perera 13,Indika de Saram 2 for 12)

Access 49 for 4 (Suresh Perera 28, Sanjaya Rajapakse 2 for 6)

Awards were also presented to the following:

Best batsman: Harith Rajakaruna (Tootal Coats), Best bowler: Sanjaya Rajapakse (Bartleets), Most number of sixes: (Harith Rajakaruna and Ashan Ranaweera had 11 each, but Ranaweera was given the prize as Rajakaruna was adjudged the best batsman)

Man of the tournament: Dammika Rajapakse (Bartleets)

Source :: The Daily News (https://www.lanka.net/lakehouse/)