We only have one more round of games before we move into the semi-finals and the final next weekend. Group B is pretty much sewen up with Colombo and the Sri Lankan Army home and hosed. Group A is a little more open, but it is very likely that it will be Ace Capital and Tamil Union who progress.
Sri Lanka Army underlined their dominance with a crushing win
over their airborne cousins. After batting first, the Army got 185 – which seemed
a little below par. However, they shot out the Sri Lankan Air Force for a mere
76.
Sinhalese are still just about in the hunt in Group A but
really left it too late. Despite ending their season with 4 wins in a row they
are unlikely to progress. Today it was Nipun Dananjaya who got 127* to help
them beat Badureliya in their final game of the season.
It was also the last game for Burgher who fail to qualify
despite boasting, in the form of Kasun Vidura, the highest run scorer in the
tournament. He ends on 631 runs. The next highest run scorer who is likely to
progress is the Army’s Lakshan Edirisinghe who is 183 off the pace.
It’s all change in terms of wicket taking records this
round. The best figures of the tournament record has stood for the last fortnight
but Sachithra Senanayaka snatched it away at the end by bagging 8-27 in Sri
Lanka Navy’s win over Panadura. Also, Ashan Priyanjan’s iron grip on boasting
the most wickets in the tournament has slipped at the last as Duvindu
Tillakaratne ended his season with a pair of 3-fers and a four-fer. This takes
him two wickets over the Colombo player – however Priyanjan has at least two
more games to play.
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