Nepal Pro Club Championship Round Up

 Another couple of games to report on today; both very friendly to the bowlers.

The Armed Police Force lost their first game of the tournament and looked equally as inept in this morning's outing as they were 76 all out in 17.1 overs thanks to a majestic 4-11 from Prince Shahi. Uttar Pradesh managed to chase down the meagre total in 13 overs for their second win. It was Shahi's second four wicket haul after he got 4-15 against Talent Hunt Academy on Saturday. 

Malaysia Club XI used 9 bowlers in their match against Push Sports Delhi; surprisingly considering one of them took fivefer. Virandeep Singh's figures of 5-9...with all his wickets coming in successive balls. That will will take some beating in this tournament...and in any other. He kept PSD down to 132, a total that Malaysia chased down with 3 overs to spare. The win sees Malaysia overtake their rivals on the table by dint of NRR. 

Tomorrow's Group B tussle sees the two winless teams match up in the forms of the Armed Police Force and Talent Hunt Academy. Malaysia will hope to bag their second win as they face off against bottom of the table Nepal Police Club in Group A. 

Nepal Pro Club Championship Round Up

 Nepal's T20 competition kicked off last week. So far the biggest winners are Rupandehi and Nepal Army who have both won 2 from 2 whilst Nepal Police and the Talent Hunt Cricket Academy are both hunting their first win. 

In terms of great individual success Push Sports Delhi's Sachin K Singh registered 6-20 in their opening round win against the Police. Rohit Paudel has benefited from playing twice but his 80 last week against the Armed Police was bolstered by a further 42 against Talent Hunt to see him as the highest overall runscorer and the player with the highest total. 

National Super Provincial 4-Day Tournament Round Up

 Lamentably rain cancelled out the final days play of the National Super League 4-Day Tournament. This meant that Kandy won thanks to their first innings lead over Jaffna.

It has been a batsmen's paradise of a Tournament with Kandy's Kamindu Mendis top of the pile with 886 runs. With 4 100s and 4 50s across the tournament and an high score of 137 it's clear that he's a class above. In terms of one off achievements though, nobody for the better of Roshen Silva's 174* which was registered in the first round of fixtures. Colombo's Roshen only played the 4 fixtures but ended with a sky high average of 101.33.

Colombo topped the league table but were knocked out in the semi-final by Jaffna, they had the wicket taking prowess of Prabath Jayasuriya who got 26 wickets in a mere 4 games. Two players registered 7fers in an innings but Nuwan Pradeep did so in just 21 overs leaking just 52 runs. Another noteworthy achievement is Malinda Pushpakumara who got twelve wickets in one match against Kandy. The Dambulla man registered the best match figures of the tournament. 

National Super Provincial 4-Day Tournament Final Update

Kandy have the all important first innings lead as Jaffna were downed for 227. Lasith Embuldeniya was the chief destroyer of Jaffna's cause however was very expensive; ending the innings with figures of 4-100.

Kandy are 52-1 after 15 overs; a lead of 269. 

National Super Provincial 4-Day Tournament Final Update

 After being 288-2, Kandy would have perhaps felt disapinted to be all out for 444. That is largely down to Dilum Sudeera who got the 4 stoic wickets from the overnight partnership and a further two more for figures of 4-86. 

Jaffna's chase got off to a bad start with their opening partnership getting just 38 runs. They went to stumps on 42-1. 

National Super Provincial 4-Day Tournament Final Update

Whilst hardly a household name, I genuinely Believe that Oshada Fernando may well be one of the most in form cricketers of 2022.

Already averaging 67 before this final game, the Kandy man got his 7th half century score out of 9 innings and could possibly rack up his fourth century tomorow. He went to stumps on 91* with his team on an impressive 288-2 wickets. This competition has been very friendly for the batters and, with first innings totals being integral in the case of a draw, we could be in for another big one today. 

National Super Provincial 4-Day Tournament Update

 Oshada Fernando is in absolutely dynamic form yet v again as Kandy have made their way to the finals of the National Super League 4-Day Tournament. He scored his fourth century in five games to take his total to 603 runs @ 67 as he put Galle to the sword in the semis thanks to a first innings lead in a high scoring draw.

Jaffna made it through to the final with an outright victory over Colombo who prevailed by 9 wickets. Despite the loss, Kamindu Mendis saw a return to form as he gota century after having only returned from injury in the last round of matches.

Kusal Mendis (799) and Prabath Jayasuriya (26) are the highest run scorers and wicket takers respectively.