Wayamba retain Twenty20 Title
Chris Dhambarage
Wayamba retained the Bank of Ceylon Inter Provincial Twenty20 title
for the second successive year when they defeated Hirdaramani Ruhuna by
a convincing margin of 95 runs in the final worked off at the Moratuwa
Stadium.
Wayamba rallied around through Mahela Jayawardena's sparkling 91 to
rattle up an imposing 208 from their 20 overs after been put into bat
and then skittled out their opponents for just 113 runs.
Jayawardena who was promoted to open the batting stuck to his task
and raced to a 49 ball 91 with the help of half a dozen of sixes and ten
boundaries. He also put on 89 runs for the first wicket from 7.4 overs
along with Jeewantha Kulatunga who went on to win the Man of the Series
award. Ruhuna in reply got off to a disastrous start while losing their
captain Upul Tharanga in the second ball of the innings and soon
collapsed to 85 for 5 by the eighth over.
They kept on losing wickets at regular intervals from there onwards
and were dismissed for a disappointing 113 runs from 13.2 overs despite
a battling 64 from Dinesh Chandimal who hoisted three sixes and struck
seven boundaries.
The mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis was the chief wrecker with a
sensational spell of bowling where he captured four wickets conceding
only nine runs from 3.2 overs.
WAYAMBA
J Kulatunga c Sampath b Lakshitha 26
M Jayawardene c Lakshitha b Senanayake 91
J Mubarak b Jayasuriya 21
K Perera c Chandimal b Senanayake 34
F Maharoof c Tharanga b Kulasekara 6
K Lokuarachchi c Weerakoon b Jayasuriya 1
S Karunanayake c Sampath b Jayasuriya 12
T Perera b Senanayake 0
I Udana not out 9
A Mendis not out 0
Extras (lb 4, w 3, nb 1) 8
TOTAL (for 8 wickets in 20 overs) 208
Fall of wickets: 1-89, 2-129, 3-152, 4-162, 5-163, 6-193, 7-193, 8-199.
Bowling: K Kulasekara 4-0-58-1, D. Lokuhettige 1-0-15-0, S Weerakoon 4-0-36-0,
S Jayasuriya 4-0-44-3, T Lakshitha 3-0-26-1, S Senanayake 4-0-25-3.
RUHUNA
U Tharanga c Lokuarachchi b Welegedara 0
S Jayasuriya lbw b Udana 9
D Chandimal c K Perera b T Perera 64
I de Saram b Udana 19
A Priyanjan st K Perera b Mendis 2
K Kulasekara c Lokuarachchi b Mendis 0
T Sampath b Mendis 0
D Lokuhettige c Mubarak b T Perera 13
S Senanayake run out 1
S Weerakoon not out 1
T Lakshitha st K Perera b Mendis 0
Extras (lb 2, w 2) 4
TOTAL (for all out in 13.2 overs) 113
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-38, 3-77, 4-85, 5-85, 6-85, 7-105, 8-106, 9-112.
Bowling: C Welegedara 3-0-36-1, I Udana 3-0-34-2, F Maharoof 3-0-25-0, A Mendis 3.2-0-9-4, T Perera 1-0-7-2. |
