Cream of Sri Lanka women cricketers in action
Marian and Kurunegala ladies clash today:
Chris Dhambarage
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The Kurunegala Youth CC Ladies cricket team. |
The cream of the Sri Lanka women’s cricketers will be in action when
Marians Ladies CC confront Kurunegala Youth Ladies in the SLC Women’s
Premier limited overs cricket tournament final at the CCC grounds in
Maitland Crescent today. Kurunegala Youth CC Ladies will have the
services of seven national caps and several other former national
players who have been in the business for quite some time.
Despite having taken up the game two years ago Kurunegala Youth CC
have performed extremely well to reach the final in a short period of
time after they emerged runners up in the ‘B’ division tournament. Even
then Marians Ladies CC will start as the favourites to clinch the title
after their crushing 40 run victory against the same opponents earlier
in a preliminary round fixture. On that occasion Marians Ladies were
dismissed for 180 runs from 49.4 overs but hit back strongly to reduce
their opponents to 140 for 9 from their 50 overs.
They went on to remain unbeaten throughout the tournament with six
convincing victories against Moratuwa SC, Parlink SC, Colts CC,
Kurunegala YCC, Lanka Women’s CC and Southern Ladies CC respectively.
They also made a clean sweep at the recent CEAT awards ceremony where
skipper Sweeni de Alwis, Dedunu de Silva and Sashikala Siriwardena were
selected as the Best Bowler, Best Batswoman and Best All rounder
respectively. Marians Ladies also had the distinction of piling up over
400 runs in the match against Moratuwa SC with Dedunu de Silva and
Sweeni de Alwis notching up centuries.
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The Marians Ladies CC cricket team. Pictures by Mahinda
Vithanachchi |
In addition former Sri Lanka captain Sashikala Siriwardena returned
amazing figures of seven wickets for just two runs in the match against
Southern SC.
The teams.
Kurunegala Youth CC (from): Chamari Polgampola (captain), Eshani
Lokusuriya, Chamari Atapattu, Mahesha Perera, Deepika Rasangika, Oshadi
Ranasinghe, Dilani Manodara, Chandi Wickremasinghe, Chaturani
Gunawardena, Rose Fernando, Deepika Subasinghe, Mihiri Madushani,
Sawmaya Sandamali, S. Arambegoda, Nadee Bandaranayake, Madumali
Wickremasinghe, Deepika Bandara, Dinesha Jayasinghe, Wasantha Kumara
(coach).
Marians Ladies CC: Sweeni de Alwis (captain), Dedunu de Silva,
Sashikala Siriwardena, Janakanthi Mala, Inoka Galagedera, Lasanthi
Madushani, Shaleka Asmadalage, Darshani Dharmasiri, Rangika Fernando,
Nirosha Kumari, Chamika Bandara, Chandrika Gunawardena, Inoshi Fernando,
Nuwanthika Samanmali, Ruwani Perera, Harsha Gamaadhikari (coach).
Kurunegala YCC:
* Beat Colts CC by 11 runs
* Beat Lanka Women’s CC by 150 runs
* Lost to Marians Ladies by 40 runs
* Beat Moratuwa SC by 225 runs
* Beat Southern Ladies by 225 runs
* No decision v Parlik SC
The road to the final
* Marians Ladies CC:
* Beat Moratuwa SC by 328 runs
* Beat Parlink SC by 9 wickets
* Beat Colts CC by 89 runs
* Beat Kurunegala YCC by 40 runs
* Beat Lanka Women’s CC by 93 runs
* Beat Southern Ladies CC by 6 wickets
[The Points Table]
Team P W L NR PTS
Marians Ladies CC 6 6 0 0 29
Kurunegala YCC 6 4 1 1 21
Colts CC 6 3 2 1 17
Parlink SC 6 3 2 1 16
Lanka Women’s CC 6 2 3 1 12
Southern Ladies CC 6 1 5 0 5
Moratuwa SC 6 0 6 0 0
Note: Tabulated under played, won, lost, no result, points
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