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St. Servatius’ rout Richmond, Chamika takes five wickets for four runs
Under 17 Division I Cricket
by Reemus Fernando
St. Servatius’ stunned Richmond with a huge nine wickets victory after left-arm spinner Viran Chamuditha and paceman Risinu Kithmuka picked up three wickets each to rattle the visitors for just 57 runs in the Under 17 Division I tournament first-round match at Uyanwatta Stadium on Wednesday.
In their essay St. Servatius’ reached the target in 14 overs as Chamarindu Nethsara scored an unbeaten 25 runs.
Richmond’s 57 runs however was not the lowest score of the day as Mahanama College, Colombo reduced Sri Sumangala College, Panadura to 46 runs before cruising to a seven wickets victory. Left-arm spinner Chamika Heenatigala who took five wickets for four runs was the hero as he completed impressive figures 8-6-4-5 in the massive victory.
Gimhan Rasanjana of Devapathiraja took the honour of scoring the highest knock of the day as he cracked 80 runs in 57 balls inclusive of five fours and five sixes to set the stage for Devapathiraja to register 129 runs victory over Revata.
Results
St. Servatius’ beat Richmond at Uyanwatta
Scores:
Richmond
57 all out in 28.2 overs (Viran Chamuditha 3/11, Risinu Kithmuka 3/06, Samiru Gimhan 2/11)
St. Servatius’
58 for 1 in 13.4 overs (Chamarindu Nethsara 25n.o.)
Devapathiraja beat Revata by 129 runs at Ratgama
Scores:
Devapathiraja
229 for 8 in 44 overs (Sasindu Malsara 37, Gimhan Rasanjana 80, Kaveesha Madushanka 48; Ameesha de Silva 3/61, Vihanga de Zoysa 2/37, Sudesh Malsara 2/42)
Revata
100 all out in 38.5 overs (Pinsara Duthanga 3/27, Gimhan Rasanjana 2/22, Pradeep Rangana 2/06)
De Mazenod in four wickets win over Sri Dharmaloka at Kandana
Scores:
Sri Dharmaloka 195 all out in 50 overs (Dineth Ekanayake 79, Harindu Dissanayake 31; Dinosh Jelon 2/39, Dinindu Sashmith 2/26, Thareen Sanketh 3/52)
De Mazenod
196 for 6 in 48.2 overs (Janith Karindra 23, Dinosh Jelon 21, Menusha Welgama 77, Savinu Chanthula 32n.o.; Mewan Randeepana 3/34, Nipun Kavinda 2/40)
St. Joseph’s beat Isipatana by 96 runs at BRC
Scores:
St. Joseph’s
232 for 9 in 50 overs (Kithmin de Silva 51, Rishma Amarasinghe 73, Nimthaka Gunewardena 21; Maleesha Sandaruwan 2/70, Shenal Dirosh 2/43)
Isipatana
136 all out in 45 overs (Dileepa Ruwanaka 20, Lakisuru Ranasinghe 27, Maleesha Sandaruwan 25; Damion de Silva 3/22, Kaveesha Jayawardene 2/17)
St. Anne’s beat Wickramasheela NS by ten wickets at Kurunegala
Scores:
Wickramasheela
NS 60 all out in 39.3 overs (Chanuka Nethsara 3/04, Yashmin Jayasundara 2/16, Nethul Chandrasena 2/08)
St. Anne’s
61 for no loss in 7 overs (Kushan Subasinghe 26n.o., Nethul Chandrasena 22n.o.)
Prince of Wales record seven wickets win over St. John’s (Nugegoda) at Moratuwa
Scores:
St. John’s
98 all out in 45.5 overs (Sandun Dewmina 19n.o.; Prince Fernando 3/16, Basuru Kalhara 3/11)
Prince of Wales
104 for 3 in 17.2 overs (Oshan Maneesha 44n.o.)
Rahula (Matara) beat Dharmasoka by 12 runs at Karandeniya
Scores:
Rahula
119 all out in 39.3 overs (Pawara Pabasara 22, Imeth Manamperi 22; Tharusha Damsara 2/22, Kaweesha Matheesh 2/12, Chandupa Kaveesha 3/15)
Dharmasoka
107 all out in 31.1 overs (Nethuja Basitha 26, Jithira Sansika 31; Imeth Manamperi 2/19, Risinu Ginuka 2/30, M. Resali 3/19)
Mahanama (Colombo) beat Sri Sumangala (Panadura) at Mattegoda
Scores
Sri Sumangala
(Panadura) 46 all out in 26.5 overs (Chamika Heenatigala 5/04, Navidu Rodrigo 2/05, Sasindu Pathirathne 2/03)
Mahanama 47 for 3 in 8.5 overs (Dulnith Sigera 26; Mevindu Kumarasiri 2/05)
World javelin leader Rumesh Tharanga lived up to his reputation to win Sri Lanka a highly anticipated gold medal, beating wet weather and track conditions at the Asia Games in Nagoya Japan a little while ago.
He took the lead with a massive 88.33 metres effort in his penultimate throw before sealing the contest with 88.55 metres throw.
He beat a strong field inclusive of reigning Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan. (Reemus Fernando)
Sri Lankan javelin star Rumesh Tharanga is on the cusp of winning the men’s javelin throw gold medal at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, after producing a leading throw of 88.33 metres.
Tharanga’s effort has placed him at the top of the standings with one attemp remaining.
The 88.33m throw once again underlined the Tharanga’s consistency at the highest level and has put him firmly in contention to add another major international title to his growing collection of honours.
The gulf between India and Afghanistan during the recent bilateral T20I series – which India won 3-0 – was a further vindication of India’s dominance in the format and why they are world champions. It may not have reflected Afghanistan’s pedigree in the format, but it showed the gaps they still have to make up to match the top sides in the world, especially in terms of dot-ball percentage and their strike rate while batting.
Now Afghanistan, who have sent a second string side to the Asian Games, take on a full-strength India in the quarter-finals. Thirteen of the 15 players who toured India for the bilateral series are not in Afghanistan’s squad now, and the only two retained are Darwish Rasooli (the captain) and Abdollah Ahmadzai. Afghanistan’s squad of 15 is so raw that it features six uncapped players and five others who have fewer than ten international appearances. Their combined T20I experience of 262 matches is only a fraction (30%) of India’s 872 games.
There is no Rashid Khan, no Rahmanullah Gurbaz, no Mohammad Nabi, but Nabi’s genes are in the side, in his 20-year-old son Hassan Eisakhil.
India, despite a calendar clash with the home ODI’s against West Indies, which also start on Sunday, have sent their big guns to Japan in search of their second straight gold medal. If there is one team that can field multiple white-ball squads simultaneously, it is India, and they have done that. It is not officially known, however, why Afghanistan have sent such an inexperienced side when their next international fixture, a one-off Test against Bangladesh, only starts on October 9. Afghanistan aren’t alone in sending a second-string squad, perhaps to give their first-choice players some rest in an otherwise packed calendar.
The divide between the two sides is stark and even though they would want to take heart from the scare Japan handed India – even if in a rain-truncated game – recently, Afghanistan themselves lost to Nepal a couple of days ago. Now they have to compete against the world champions, a task they struggled with even at full strength earlier this month.
India have been plagued by injuries of late and one of the names on that list was of Washington Sundar, who returned to action in the Japan T20I last week. He didn’t get to bat and bowled two overs and took two wickets while playing his first game in two months. India would want to give him more game time before he heads back home for the West Indies T20Is that start on October 6 in Lucknow. Barring his niggles, Washington has otherwise had an impressive year across formats with an unbeaten 52in an ODI to give India their first win of their UK tour after he took a four-for in the Test against Afghanistan, during which he also scored 52*.
Pace-bowling allrounder Ismat Alam, 24, has played two Tests and one T20I so far, Afghanistan’s opening game against Japan. Alam was the Player of the Tournament in Afghanistan’s domestic T20s – Shpageeza Cricket League – for scoring 294 runs at a strike rate of 168, while also taking nine wickets. He had starred on his Test debut last year, scoring a century in the lower order that set up Afghanistan’s victory over Zimbabwe. Afghanistan may want to give him a game and hope he steps up again on the big stage.
India had rested Jasprit Bumrah in the one-off T20I against Japan and played Arshdeep Singh and Yash Thakur as their quick options apart from legspinner Ravi Bishnoi and spin-bowling allrounders Axar Patel and Washington Sundar. India will now have to decide whom to leave out for Bumrah. The other question will be if India want to give Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a game early in the tournament, although Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson look undroppable given the runs they scored in the series against Afghanistan.
India (probable): Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer (capt), Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur/Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.
Against Nepal, Afghanistan gave a T20I debut to Faisal Shinozada who top-scored along with the experienced Najibullah Zadran, the only batters who scored in double-digits in the game.
Afghanistan (probable): Mohammad Akram, Hassan Eisakhil, Karim Janat, Darwish Rasooli (capt), Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Ishaq (wk), Ismat Alam, Nangeyalia Khan, Abdollah Ahmadzai, Faridoon Dawoodzai, Arab Gul.
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