This has been quite a hard tournament to follow and update.
Firstly, as you can imagine, the coverage in Sri Lanka has
been patchy. Also, there are so many teams and the fixtures are all over-lapping;
for example, a round of matches has finished today but another started today as
well…..problematic, at best. I will therefore take this arbitrary point to
offer you some findings.
Moors are the team to beat so far. They are the only team
with a 100% record which is even more impressive considering they have played 3
matches – whereas others have just played the one.
As ever in these competitions there are some huge gulfs in
terms of the teams. On 6 occasions teams have been beaten by an innings. Moors
success is underlined by the fact that they have beaten 2 teams by that margin.
Fans of Kandy will be concerned that they have been beaten by an innings now
fewer than three times.
The standout batter in the tournament remains Nishan
Madushka. He registered a huge 300* in the last round of fixtures against lowly
Sebastianites. With a score like that you will not be surprised to hear he is
the highest tournament run scorer as well with nearly 200 more than anyone else.
This round of games has also seen the Sri Lankan domestic
legend that is Malinda Pushpakumara land the outrageous figures of 8-27 in
Colts innings victory over Lankan. This is the second eightfer of the
tournament. The first was bagged by Sri Lankan Army’s Kamul Nanayakkara in a
match against Bloomfied. Nanayakkara is the tournament’s best wicket taker with
24 @ 12.95.
Matches continue…..seemingly all the time.
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