Rain hampered weekend for “Elephant Lemonade “Cup, MCA “D” division 50-overs League Tournament 2012

Rain intervened on all three matches, one match finishing in a no-result and two matches decided by using the “Parabola” system.

The weekend’s batting highlight was the century scored by Mobitel’s, Nalin Vimukthi (100 in 108 balls with 06 fours and 04 sixes) which gave his team a comfortable 59 runs win on the “Parabola” system.

John Keells “B” registered their first win in 03 matches when they beat unbeaten, Softlogic by 10 runs in the “Parabola” system.

 

Match Results

At Thurstan:  PABC Vs.  Airport & Aviation ended in a no-result.

A&A  (won the toss)  166  (44.4) (D. Weerasinghe 26,  D. Jayasekera  36 not out,  S.W.R.R. Pulle  35,  S. Wijeratne  3/30,  S. Amaradasa  3/40)

PABC – 69/2 in 13.5 overs when rain halted play.  (V. Perera 31)

At MCA: Mobitel beat HAyleys Group RC by 59 runs on the “Parabola” system.

Mobitel (won the toss) - 234/8 (50.0) (N.Sampath 35, Nalin Vimukthi 100,   T. Nazeer 36,  R. Fernando 2/45,  D. Ratnayake 3/40)

Hayleys – 153/8 in 37 overs when rain halted play (M. Silva 50 not out, M. Thiyagaraja 2/19, K. Gomes 2/20, T. Nazeer 2/20)

At Thurstan: J. Keells “B” beat Softlogic by 10 runs on the “Parabola” system (match reduced to 44 overs a side, due to wet ground conditions.)

JK “B”:  (sent into bat)  189 (40.1) (T. Herath 25,  C. Handevitarana 31,  J. Sriyapala 31,  P.K. Abeygunasekera 22,  A. Johar 27,  R. Derling 3/24,  I. Wickramasinghe 3/35,  G. Jayaweera 2/25)

Softlogic : 134/ 7 (28.1) when rain halted play ( W. Helsham,  35,  R. Derling 20,  I. Wickramasinghe 31,  R. Gulan 27 not out,  M. Weerasinghe 2/45,  R. Subasinghe 2/34,  A.G. Jaakey  2/30)

The tournament will be continued this week-end, 26 and 27 November with a card of four matches, which will see the end of the league stage matches.