Eight-wicket win for Hayleys Group A
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Hayleys Group A cruised to a comfortable eight-wicket win over SLC Youth in today's (13) fixture of the Singer – MCA Super Premier League limited-overs one-day tournament, organised by the Mercantile Cricket Association for the 33rd time.
This defeat brought SLC Youth's first-round campaign to an end, and by then they had lost five of the six matches they played.
In the completed match, Hayleys Group A openers Pulindu Perera and Dhananjaya Lakshan put together a 135-run stand for the first wicket off 66 balls against SLC Youth.
Dhananjaya Lakshan was the first to fall, having made 61 off 28 balls with 4 sixes and 6 fours, while Pulindu Perera, dismissed on the second ball after his departure, had scored 68 off 39 balls with 5 sixes and 5 fours.
Meanwhile, the match between HNB – A and Colombo Aces, due to be played at the SLLDC Grounds in Colombo, was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain, while the match between CDB and BBK Partnership, which got under way at the MCA Grounds in Colombo, was abandoned after 12.4 overs due to the rain that came down.
Brief scores of the match played
SLC Youth vs Hayleys Group A, at the Katunayake Free Trade Zone Grounds.
- SLC Youth – all out 194 (49.2) Rehan Peiris 33, Chaniru Senarathna 35, Kaushika Kumarasinghe 44, Kavishka Anjula 2/17, Inuka Karannagoda 4/25, Ravindu Fernando 2/47
- Hayleys Group A – 2 wickets down 199 (18.1) Pulindu Perera 68, Dhananjaya Lakshan 61, Nuwanidu Fernando not out 20, Minod Bhanuka not out 42
Eight-wicket win for Hayleys Group A.
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Based on ThePapare reporting