Pulina cracks blistering knock to make Dharmaraja’s presence felt

Pulina Perera made Dharmaraja’s rare presence felt to a great extent when he hammered a blistering half century to set the stage for Kandy to record their second consecutive victory in the Sri Lanka Cricket conducted Inter Provincial Under 17 tournament on Tuesday.

The century old cricket stronghold has not produced prominent cricketers to provincial teams in recent years and Pulina for the second consecutive day scored a half century to make Dharmaraja’s presence felt.

The left hander cracked nine sixes and six fours to score 82 runs in just 33 balls. He was joined by Lakwin Abeysinghe (88), Isuru Pannala and Thisaru Ekanayake who scored half centuries to propel the score to 357 runs.

In reply Dambulla were dismissed for 155 runs as pacemrn Manula Kularatne and Sheshan Yashon picked up four wickets each.

In the other match played on Tuesday Colombo South beat Galle according to D/L method.

Results

Kandy beat Dambulla at Dambulla

Scores:

Kandy

357 for 5 in 50 overs (Pulina Perera 82, Wathila Udara 26, Lakwin Abeysinghe 88, Isuru Pannala 54, Thisaru Ekanayake 54n.o, Jayavi Liyanagama 20n.o.)

Dambulla 155

all out in 41.3 overs (Gayana Weerasinghe 33, Vishwa Rajapaksa 26, Kanishka Lakshan 30; Manula Kularatne 4/23, Sheshan Yashon 4/33)

Colombo South beat Galle according to D/L method

Galle

205 all out in 39 overs (Chamarindu Nethsara 44, Dinura Abeywickramasinghe 27, Thamindu Pradeeptha 35; Akmal Fazly 2/43, Rayan Dissanayake 2/33, Randisha Bandaranayaka 4/20)

Colombo South

200 for 4 in 27.1 overs (Sineth Jayawardena 38, Vishen Helambage 45, Rudanda Gamage 72n.o.; S. Kabileshwaran 3/66)

(RF)