Seylan Bank looking for sweet revenge

CRICKET: Seylan Bank 'C' will be looking for sweet revenge when they take on the confident, John Keells Group 'B' in the final of the TVS Cup - MCA Division 'C' 50 overs league tournament, this Sunday, 7th May, at the Bloomfield Grounds, commencing 10.00 am.

Both finalists played alongside Group 'A' during the league and J.Keells had the better exchanges in their league outing, beating the bankers by 03 wickets on 14th March at the BRC Grounds.

At the completion of the round-robin stage, J. Keells and Seylan finished with equal points (16 points each) with four wins a piece, but the former on their virtue of their league result going in their favour was placed on top of the table.

The other wins for John Keells were against SriLankan Airlines by 03 wickets, Access Group by 17-runs and J.L. Morison by 58-runs, but lost to Stafford Motors by 33 runs.

Seylan in turn, beat Access Group by 13 runs, Stafford Motors by 6 wickets, J.L. Morison by 2 wickets and SriLankan Airlines by 24 runs.

In the 2nd Stage of the tournament, John Keells performed brilliantly, beating Metropolitan Group by 162 runs in the quarter-finals and Access Group by 104 runs in the semi-finals. Seylan Bank too came up with a matching performance beating the strong HNB 'C' team by 4 wickets and crushing J.L. Morison by 9 wickets.

Both teams are led by two solid all rounders, Suranga Lokubalasuriya (John Keells) and Lasith Fernando (Seylan).

The Teams:

John Keells Group 'B' (from): Suranga Lokubalasuriya (Captain ), Wasanthalal Fernando, Mahendra Amarasinghe, Ravi Subasinghe, Punyakantha Abeyagunasekera, T.A. Johar, Janaka Nishantha, Chaminda Perera, Trevor Cramer, Shivan Fernando, U.O.C. Udawatte, Eranda Fernando, Ajith Brayan, B.R. Anthony Motha and Dammika Premadasa.

Seylan Bank 'C' (from): Lasith Fernando (Captain) , Lahiru Fernando, Sampath Perera, D.C. Susantha, Tharaka Kottehewa, Naween Dias, Prabath Maldunnearachchi, Romesh Jayasinghe, Asela Umayangana, Chanaka Withanage, Wishan Perera, Rohan S. Peiris, Chamil Sumathipala and Susith Liyanage.