Central Province in 104 run win

S M Jiffrey ABDEEN, Kandy Sports Correspondent

Central Province scored a fine 104 run win over Colombo South in their Sri Lanka Cricket under 17 inter-provincial limited over cricket tournament match played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium yesterday.

Highlight of the match was a fine knock of 100 by Trinity’s Ron Chandragupta who scored 12 fours and 2 sixes off 126 balls. Another Trinitian Dinuk Wickremanayake coming lower down the order batting with a lot of aggression sprayed the Colombo South attack to all parts of the ground to score a belligerent 81 not out with 8 fours and 3 sixes off only 60 balls before time ran out for him.

Colombo South chasing a victory target of 289 runs were dismissed for 184 in 36.5 overs. Only Madushan Ravichandrakumar batted with confidence scoring 51 not out with 8 fours.

Central Province: 288 for 4 in 50 overs 215 minutes (Bhagya Palihawadana 33, Lakshitha Dassanayake 21, Ron Chandragupta 100, Rajitha Jayatunga 40, Dinuk Wickremanayake 81 n.o, Madhushan Ravichandrakumar 2 for 39).

Colombo South: 184 all out in 36.5 overs (Ronaka Ahangama 33, Anuk Fernando 30, Madhushan Ravichandrakumar 51 n.o, M Shiras 2 for 21, Rajitha Jayatunga 2 for 33, Aravinda Withanarachchi 4 for 31).