Prajapathi champs

Mahamaya Girls College, Kandy, the only girls school in Kandy involved in both hardball and softball cricket held their 'Cricket Day' recently in the school playground.

At the start they had a softball cricket tournament among four houses ie Sangamitta, Prajapathi, Maya and Yasodara.

Teacher-in-charge Mrs K C Kurukulasuriya told the reporter since there is no wicket to play hardball, the cricket day was limited to softball matches only and that she intends to have inter-house hardball matches soon at a place where a hardball wicket is available. The Principal of the school, Mrs Indra Withanachchi was the chief guest and the Deputy Principals, Mrs Asoka Dissanayake and Mrs Visaka Herath were present as the guests of honour. The matches were played on knock-out basis and each innings was limited to 10 overs.

Prajapathi House emerged champions beating Sangamitta House by 9 wickets in the finals and Maya House came third beating Yasodara House.

Following are the chief scores of the final match: Sangamitta House 51 for 5 wickets in 10 overs (Buddhini Samarasinghe 10, Dulanjali Withanage 11, Niluka Mortimor 2 for 11, Raveena Liyanage 2 for 15).

Prajapathi House 58 for 1 wicket in 7 overs (Raveena Liyanage 34 n.o. (6 x 3), Hashini Ratnayake 10 n.o.,Dulanjali Withanage 1 for 18).