Sri Lanka ‘A’, India ‘A’, Pakistan ‘A’ and India ‘B’ win on third day

• Ahansul Siddiqui, Aman Shastri and Sajwal Javaid Butt score centuries

By P.D. De Silva

Sri Lanka ‘A’, India ‘A’ and Pakistan ‘A’ were unbeaten at the end of the third day yesterday  at the 8th Lawyers Cricket World Cup played in Sri Lanka. India ‘B’ won their second game from three outings. Ahansul Siddiqui, Aman Shastri scored centuries for India ‘B’ while Sajwal Javaid scored a century for Pakistan ‘A’.

Of the five games scheduled to be played yesterday (31) between Bangladesh ‘A’ and Pakistan ‘B’ at the LRDC ground in Nawala it was abandoned without a ball being bowled.

At the FTZ ground in Katunayake Sajwal Javaid Butt scored 100 off 90 balls with 12 boundaries and 2 sixes and Muzaffer Hussain chipped in with an unbeaten 76 off 52 balls with eight boundaries and two sixes for Pakistan ‘A’ after which their bowler restricted Sri Lanka ‘B’ to 120/7   to register their third win in the tournament.

An unbeaten half a century by Saurabh Ahuja and a four wicket haul by Aditya Kumar Achirya helped India ‘A’ register their third win of the tournament defeating Barristers of England and Wales by 8 wickets at the Thurstan ground.

Thusith Paliwatta starred with bat and ball (64 and 2-28) to see Sri Lanka ‘A’ register their third win within three days by defeating the Commonwealth team by six wickets at the Air Force ground Katunayake.

Batting first the Commonwealth team scored 180 runs and Sri Lanka ‘A’ won the game with six wickets and  40 balls to spare.

Centuries by Ahsanul Siddiqui (111 off 79 4x4 and 6x9) and Aman Shastri (100 off 55 4x9 and 6x6) and three wicket hauls from Madhusudan Kalantri and Sayan Mukherjee saw India ‘B’ post 305/8 which

was sufficient to overcome  Bangladesh ‘B’ by a mammoth 220 runs at the MCA grounds.