Ceylinco record two good victories

Ceylinco Grameen made an impressive start by bagging a double-header in the Edirisinghe Trust Investments Ltd. (ETI) sponsored, MCA ‘C’Division 50 overs League tournament 2009 which got underway last week-end.

On Saturday, Ceylinco Grameen scored a comfortable seven wicket win over Stafford Motors and followed it up with a crushing six wicket win over Bartleets on Sunday.

MAS Active’s, lower order batsman, Weranga Dissanayake took the honours of being the first centurion of the tournament when he cracked an incredible 126 runs in 105 balls, inclusive of 9 sixes and 8 fours against J L Morison. At one stage, MAS Active was looking down the barrel at 65 for 6.

There onwards, Dissanayake with the help of Sanjaya Jayaratne (57 in 65 balls with a six & 4 fours) put them back on course with a spell binding 160 runs stand for the seventh wicket.

MAS Active ultimately finished with 295 for 9 and went on to win the match by 104 runs.

Note worthy bowling performances came from Dilshan Indrasiri of HSBC ‘A’ 5 for 15 in 8 overs against Stafford Motors and Romesh Eranga of Ceylinco Grameen 5 for 35 in 9 overs against Bartleets)

The tournament will be continued this week-end, 17th & 18th January 2009 with a card of five matches.

Results:

Saturday, at Bloomfield - Ceylinco Grameen beat Stafford Motors by seven wickets

Stafford Motors 182 in 38.5 overs (A Athulathmudali 20, S Gangodawila 45, R Rajkumar 28, D A Liyanage 4/50, S T Cooray 3/15)

Ceylinco Grameen 183 for 3 in 28.3 overs (A Jayaratne 55 not out, J Priyankara 46, C Charitha 22, K R M Tharaka 35 not out, A Mendis 2/30)

At Colts - Janashakthi ‘B’ beat Bartleets by 35 runs

Janashakthi ‘B’ 219 for 09 in 49 overs (K Perera 25, B Arumathanthri 25, S Perera 45, M Affeze 35, R Kaluarachchi 38 not out, R Wimaladarma 2/20, N Guruge 2/25)

Bartleets 184 in 45.3 overs (D H Sandagirigoda 52, R Wimaladarma 47 not out, R Sampath 3/10)

At Katunayake BoI ground: J L Morisons beat HSBC ‘A’ by 9 runs

J L M 183 in 48 overs (D Bandara 32, Y Diluk 30, P de Zoysa 2/15, M Matheen 2/25, D Indrasinghe 2/15)

HSBC ‘A’ 174 in 45.5 overs (C Karunaratne 20, S Wijetunge 20, G Wijesinghe 36, S Godwin 25, Y Diluk 3/25, S Fernando 2/30, D Bandara 2/30)

Sunday, at Bloomfield - HSBC ‘A’ beat Stafford Motors by 33 runs

HSBC ‘A’ 137 in 37.1 overs (S Wijetunge 28, M Matheen 31, S Godwin 28, B Ranaweera 3/25, C Peiris 2/5, S Gangodawila 3/25)

Stafford Motors 104 in 30.4 overs (S Gangodawila 25, B Ranaweera 27 not out, Dilshan Indrasiri 5/15, C Karunaratne 3/25)

At Colts ground MAS Active Synergy beat J L Morison by 104 runs

MAS Active 295 for 9 in 50 overs (Weranga Dissanayake 126, Sanjeeva Jayaratne 57, M Ahamadeen 26 not out, Y Diluk 3/40, D Hettiarachchi 3/24)

J L M 191 in 42.3 overs (D Sanjeer 30, C Hettiarachchi 30, P Liyanagunawardena 65, P Hewage 2/25, S Jayaratne 2/25, R Gayashan 2/20)

At Katunayake BoI ground - Ceylinco Grameen beat Bartleets by 6 wickets

Bartleets 95 in 25 overs (D H Sandagirigoda 31, D Liyanage 3/40, Romesh Eranga 5/35, S Cooray 2/5)

Ceylinco 97 for 04 in 20.2 overs (A Jayaratne 25, R Wimaladarma 2/40, D H Sandagirigoda 2/10)