Sri Lanka News Round-up (12 Jun 1998)
An inter-class six-a-side cricket tournament was organised for the first time in the history of Aquinas College of Higher Studies, Borella by the Catholic Students' Movement
12-Jun-1998
12 June 1998
Sri Lanka News Round-up
The Daily News
Six-a-side cricket at Aquinas a success
An inter-class six-a-side cricket tournament was organised for the
first time in the history of Aquinas College of Higher Studies,
Borella by the Catholic Students' Movement.
There was keen competition among 26 teams for the Aquinas Trophy which
was won by Preliminary B class.
The award for Best Bowler and Man of the series was won by Nilantha
Jayawardena while Sameera Chinthaka bagged the award for best batsman.
Rangana Nidarsha was nominated Man of the Match.
Ragama CC by nine wickets
Ragama CC scored a convincing nine wicket win over Colombo Campus, in
their final preliminary round match of the division II tournament
played at Wattala.
For Ragama CC, brothers Chaminda Hettiarachchi 102, and Chandika
Hettiarachchi 65 added 120 runs for the third wicket. Lucian
Wijesinghe's 26 and match bagof 6/68 and Chinthana Jayawardane 60 off
30 balls also helped Ragama in their victory effort. For Colombo
Campus K. Saparamadu the skipper fought a lone battle scoring 24 and
119 and also taking 4/46.
Col. Campus: 146 all out. (K. Saparamadu 24, T. Silva 23, Emil Dias
4/43, Lucian Wijesinghe 2/12) and 235 all out. (K. Saparamadu 119,
Lucian Wijesinghe 4/56, Chandika Hettiarachchi 2/54).
Ragama CC: 288/9 dec (Chaminda Hettiarachchi 102, Chandika
Hettiarachchi 65, Lucian Wijesinghe 26, K. Saparamadu 4/46) and 95/1
in 94 overs (Chinthana Jayawardane 60 not out, Namal Sudarshana 30).
Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)