Sri Lanka News Round-up (19 April 1998)

Sports 19 April, 1998

Sports in brief

Daily News

Sri Lanka women on top

By Leslie Fernando

Two fine bowling efforts by pacewomen Chamani Seneviratne (5 for 31) and Rasanjalee Silva (4 for 29) put the Sri Lanka Women's cricket in a strong position against the Pakistan women's team on the second day of the first Test played at the Colts grounds, Havelock Park yesterday.

Beginning the day at 4 for 1 the visitors were dismissed for 176 in 82 overs in 325 minutes. At one stage Pakistan were reeling at 34 for 5 but Kiran Baluch steadied the innings with a defiant 76 which contained 13 hits to the ropes. Kiran and Shiza Khan (16) shared a valuable 41 runs stand for the sixth wicket.

The local women with a healthy lead of 131 runs were 46 for 2 in their second essay.

The match will be continued today at 10.30 am.

Scores: Sri Lanka 307 for 9 decl. and 46 for 2 (Vasanti Ratnayake 13, Dedunu Gunaratne 29, Shaiza Khan 1 for 18, Nazia Nazeer 1 for 4) and Pakistan overnight 4 for 1 all out 176 (Kiran Baluch 76, Shiza Khan 16, Sharmeen Khan 19, Asma Farzand 15, Chamani Seneviratne 5 for 31, Rasanjalee Silva 4 for 29, Rose Fernando 1 for 41).

Dharmadutha MV winners

By V.T. Raj our Badulla sports correspondent

Dharmadutha Maha Vidyalaya Badulla emerged winners at the inaugural Duminda Mahaweli big match when they beat Mahiyangana Madhya Maha Vidyalaya by 9 runs played on last Tuesday at the Mahiyangana MMV grounds.

This first ever big match at Mahiyangana attracted a large crowd and was organised on a grand style. Mahiyangana MMV skipper Lakmal Ranaweera won the toss and invited Dharmadutha to take first lease of the game in this limited over encounter.

Chamara Pradeep (44) and Skipper Thilan Naveendra Gunasinghe (35) enabled Dharmadutha to score 147 runs.

In reply Mahiyangana MMV were all out for 138 runs. S. Hapugaspitiya top scored with 26 runs.

Chamara Pradeep was awarded the best batsman's trophy while skipper Tilan Naveendra won the man of the match award.

Dharmadutha MV 14 (Chamara Pradeep 44, Thilan Naveendra 35, Eroshan Dissanayake 10, Ghihan Indika 10, Nadeesh Lakmal Ranaweera 2 for 34).

Mahiyangana MMV 138 (P. Nalaka 22, J. Karaliadde 22, S. Hapugaspitiya 26, Upul Chandrasiri 11, Duminda Priyadarshana 4 for 20, Dilan Samarakoon 3 for 24 and Sajeewa Dinesh 2 for 27).

Army inter-regiment cricket tournament 1998

THE ARMY after a lapse of 10 years, has decided to conduct an inter-regiment cricket tournament (40 overs) with the blessings of the Commander of the Army, Lt. Gen. R. de S. Daluwatte.

Ten regiments will take part in the tournament which includes SLAC, SLA, SLSC, SLLI, ESR, MIC, SLASC, SLAOC, SLAGSC, SLCMP.

The tournament will be conducted during the months of April - May at the Colombo Malay Cricket Club. Brig. Upali Bandaratillake who is the president of the Army Cricket Committee is keen to enter a team from the Army to play premier division cricket in Sri Lanka.

Good all-round performance

Dilantha Senal of Harishchandra College, Negombo, did extremely well this season both with the bat and the ball in Division II of the Coca-Cola Under-19 Cricket Tournament organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association.

Senal did his school proud by slamming four centuries with an highest score of 192 against Sri Piyaratna MV, Padukka, at an average of 53.8 in 13 matches.

He also claimed 51 wickets at an average of 15.8 with 21 catches to his credit.

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