Rajive stars as Doctors crush Lawyers in third Northern Law-Medical Cricket Encounter

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The Victorious Northern Doctors Cricket Club team

Text and Pix By P.D. de Silva

Rajive Nirmalasinham was named Man of the Match as well as Best Bowler

A four-fer followed by an unbeaten 50 off 31 balls by Rajive Nirmalasinham helped Doctors crush Lawyers by nine wickets in the third edition of the Northern Law-Medical Cricket Encounter played at the Jaffna Central College ground recently.

Lawyers lead the series two wins to one.

Brief scores:

Northern Lawyers CC 185/9 (35) (V. Mannivanan 66, Jitharshan Shanmugampillai 28, R. Rajithan 22; P. Shanjeeban 1-26, Andrew Vasanthan 1-06, Parathan Kajaruban 1-39, S. Mannivanan 1-35, Rajive Nirmalasinham 4-32)

Northern Doctors CC 189/1 (18) (K. Mohankumar 53, G. Sritharan 76*, Rajive Nirmalasinham 50*; V. Subaskaran 1-25)

Man of the Match: Rajive Nirmalasinham

Best Batsman: G. Sritharan

Best Bowler: Rajive Nirmalasinham

Best Fielder:

T. Gowribahan