Sports
India and Sri Lanka make it two-in-two with one-sided wins
India and Sri Lanka achieved their second wins in Group A of the Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup with easy victories over Malaysia and West Indies, respectively, in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
While Sri Lanka’s win was an all-round show in the first game, India’s left-arm spin duo of Vaishnavi Sharma and Aayushi Shukla set up the victory for India with big hauls, Vaishnavi starring with a hat-trick to complete a five-for.
India chose to field in the second game of the day, as they had in their first game against West Indies, and it took them just 14.3 overs to dismiss the hosts Malaysia for 31. India conceded 11 extras and no Malaysia batter made more than 5.
For India, VJ Joshitha started things off with a wicket in the second over, and Nur Aliya was run out in Joshitha’s next over. Shukla and Vaishnavi got going after that, with Vaishnavi taking 5 for 5 from her four overs, and Shukla 3 for 8 from 3.3 overs.
That target was never going to pose a problem for India, and they got home in just 2.5 overs without losing a wicket, Gongadi Trisha hitting 27 in 12 balls and her opening partner Kamalini G scoring 4 off 5.
India will finish the group stage with a game against Sri Lanka on Thursday, a fixture that will determine the Group A toppers. It’s also a game that will pit an outstanding bowling side – India, who have shot out their opponents for 44 and 31 in their two games – and a high-scoring batting side – Sri Lanka, who have so far hit 162 for 6 and 166 for 5, the top two scores in the tournament so far.
In the first game of the day, it was a slightly improved performance from West Indies after they were beaten by nine wickets by India in their opener, but it was not enough to challenge Sri Lanka, who ran away 81-run victors.
Batting first after winning the toss, Sri Lanka rode on contributions from opener Sanjana Kavindi (39 off 36 balls), captain and No. 3 batter Manudi Nanayakkara (41 off 31) and middle-order bat Dahami Sanethma (31 not out off 25), as well as 36 extras to put up a huge total.
The target of 167 might have been too much for West Indies to get to anyway, and left-arm spinner Chamodi Praboda’s spell in the powerplay, where she accounted for Asabi Callender, Naijanni Cumberbatch and Jahzara Claxton, put the result beyond doubt.
There were pockets of resistance after the initial setbacks, especially from captain Samara Ramnath, who scored a 23-ball 24 opening the innings, but there wasn’t much of note from the other batters – Claxton, Amrita Ramtahal and Kenika Casaar were the only others to just about make it into double digits.
Aseni Thalagune took 2 for 16 to complement Praboda’s 3 for 16, and West Indies, always well behind the asking rate, only got as far as 90. (cricinfo.com)
Under 19 Division I Cricket
by Reemus Fernando
St. Joseph’s came almost close to recording an outright victory against Lumbini as they kept alive their chances of taking the top spot in their group in the Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ cricket tournament.
Nushan Perera took five wickets to restrict Lumbini to 93 runs for nine wickets in the second innings at stumps. The Joes were one wicket short of recording an innings win.
The first innings win earned them 11.76 points and their total aggregate after the sixth match was 66.09 points (average 13.218). With three matches to go they have a chance to take the top spot from Mahanama.
Mahanama who commenced their penultimate match yesterday against Richmond lead the points table with 83.50 points. They took first innings lead against Richmond yesterday and will be looking to take maximum points today.
St. Benedict’s are the last placed team in the group ‘X’ points table and need to do well against Prince of Wales who posted 275 for six wickets declared on day one in their match yesterday.
Note:
This is an up-to-date points table prepared by The Island.
Keys:
MP- Matches played, IW- Innings win, IL – Lost by an innings, WO – Won
outright, LO – Lost outright, 1st IW- Won on 1st innings, 1st IL – Lost on first
innings, 1st IT – Tied on 1st innings, MT – Match ended in tie, ND- No decision,
TP- Total points, AVE – Average
Sahansa Damsiluni and Annaya Norbert reached the girls’ singles semi-finals of the ITF Asia 14 and Under Development Championship (South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia) week two event at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association courts on Tuesday.
Sahansa beat Mongolian Adama Macono in her quarter-final while Annaya beat Howladcr Jannat from Bangladesh in her match.
Sohail Hajira of Pakistan and Gurung Shivali of Nepal were the winners of the other two quarter-final matches.
Annaya Norbert
Results
GirlGirls’ quarter-finals
Sahansa Damsiluni (Sri Lanka) beat Adama Macono (Mongolia) 6-4, 6-3
Annaya Norbert (Sri Lanka) beat Howladcr Jannat (Bangladesh) 6-3, 6-1
Sohail Hajira (Pakistan) beat Eliza Kahagalla (Sri Lanka) 6-4, 3-1 (Eliza retired)
Gurung Shivali (Nepal ) beat Zia Ullah Khan (Pakistan) 6-1, 6-1.
India registered an easy 10 wicket victory against hosts Malaysia in the Women’s Under 19 T20 World Cup in Kula Lampur on Tuesday.
India’s left-arm spin duo of Vaishnavi Sharma and Aavushi Shukla set up the victory for India with big hauls, Vaishnavi starring with a hat-trick to complete a five-for.
India chose to field in the second game of the day, as they had in their first game against West Indies, and it took them just 14.3 overs to dismiss the hosts Malaysia for 31. India conceded 11 extras and no Malaysia batter made more than 5.
For India, VJ Joshitha started things off with a wicket in the second over, and Nur Aliya was run out in Joshitha’s next over. Shukla and Vaishnavi got going after that, with Vaishnavi taking 5 for 5 from her four overs, and Shukla 3 for 8 from 3.3 overs.
That target was never going to pose a problem for India, and they got home in just 2.5 overs without losing a wicket, Gongadi Trisha hitting 27 in 12 balls and her opening partner Kamalini G scoring 4 off 5.
Brief scores:
Malaysia Women Under19s 31 in 14.3 overs [Nur Aliya Binti Mohd Hairun 05; VJ Joshitha 1-05, Aayushi Shukla 3-08, Vaishnavi Sharma 5-05] lost to India Women Under 19s 32/0 in 2.5 overs [Gongadi Trisha 27*] by ten wickets
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