Sri Lanka `A' head the points table in ICC Six Nations' Challenge
Sri Lanka `A' head the points table in the ICC Six Nations' Challenge, currently underway in Windhoek, Namibia, after the first two rounds, with Kenya lying second and Zimbabwe `A' in third place
BCCSL
10-Apr-2002
Sri Lanka `A' head the points table in the ICC Six Nations' Challenge, currently underway in Windhoek, Namibia, after the first two rounds, with Kenya lying second and Zimbabwe `A' in third place. Both Sri Lanka `A' and Kenya have collected eight points from two wins in their two matches so far. But Sri Lanka A's net run rate of 1.70 is far ahead of Kenya's 0.67.
The six teams in the tournament are playing each other in a round robin format, with the top two teams entering the final on Sunday, April 14. Sri Lanka were next scheduled to play Zimbabwe 'A' on Wednesday. The other teams are The Netherlands, Canada and Namibia.
Sri Lanka 'A' innings (50 overs maximum) DA Gunawardena c van Oosterom b Khan 5 G Wijekoon c Scholte b van Troost 14 WBM Perera c Bradley b Zulfiqar 85 A Polonowita c Scholte b Khan 29 HMNC Silva run out 21 CU Jayasinghe not out 48 *TT Samaraweera not out 20 Extras (lb 12, w 17, nb 2) 31 Total (5 wickets, 50 overs) 253
DNB: HMRKB Herath, +P Jayawardene, K Lokuarachchi, A Ganegama.
FoW: 1-25 (Gunawardena), 2-60 (Wijekoon), 3-125 (Polonowita),
4-181 (Silva), 5-196 (Perera).
Bowling O M R W
Schiferli 10 0 45 0
Khan 10 0 49 2
de Leede 8 0 20 0
van Troost 7 0 30 1
Esmeijer 8 0 52 0
Zulfiqar 7 0 45 1
Netherlands innings (target: 254 from 50 overs)
*RF van Oosterom b Ganegama 3
A Zulfiqar c Herath b Ganegama 8
RRAF Bradley b Wijekoon 2
NA Statham c Perera b Lokuarachchi 8
KJ van Noortwijk c Lokuarachchi b Ganegama 2
LP van Troost st Jayawardene b Jayasinghe 0
E Schiferli c Silva b Lokuarachchi 29
JJ Esmeijer c & b Samaraweera 39
+RH Scholte c Silva b Samaraweera 12
KA Khan not out 0
TDM de Leede absent -
Extras (lb 4, w 7, nb 1) 12
Total (all out, 38.1 overs) 115
FoW: 1-4 (van Oosterom), 2-12 (Bradley), 3-17 (Zulfiqar),
4-21 (van Noortwijk), 5-26 (van Troost), 6-36 (Statham),
7-61 (Schiferli), 8-115 (Scholte), 9-115 (Esmeijer).
Bowling O M R W
Ganegama 8 3 13 3
Wijekoon 8 3 13 1
Jayasinghe 6 0 21 1
Lokuarachchi 7 1 24 2
Herath 5 2 24 0
Samaraweera 4.1 0 16 2
Points Table
Team P W T L NR PTS NRR Sri Lanka `A' 2 2 0 0 0 8 1.70 Kenya 2 2 0 0 0 8 0.67 Zimbabwe `A' 2 1 0 1 0 4 0.14 Netherlands 2 1 0 1 0 4 -0.82 Canada 2 0 0 2 0 0 -0.78 Namibia 2 0 0 2 0 0 -0.89