Melwire Rolling and Hayleys ‘B’ registered wins as the 7th CBL Munchee – MCA Challengers League continued on Saturday (31).
At the FTZ Ground in Katunayake A half ton by Lahiru Gamage and a five fer by Oshada Wickremasinghe was in vain as Melwire Rolling beat English Tea Shop by two wickets. Sisitha Madanayake and Chathun Ranasinghe scored 26 runs each to top the Melwire Rolling score card.
At the DHH Sports Complex a few kilometers away in a low scoring game, Hayleys ‘B’ annihilated Colombo Dockyard by 8 wickets. Kalana Perera, Daham Nirmal and Yasiru Jayasinghe shared all ten wickets between them to restrict the Dockyard team to 78 runs in the 20th over and achieved the win need in 10.3 overs.
At FTZ ground Katunayake, Mellwire Rolling won by 2 wickets
English Tea Shop 166/10 in 50 over (Lahiru Gamage 50, Oshadha Wickremasinghe 35; Supun Chathuranga 3-34, Kamesh Mallawarachchi 3-22, Malinda Perera 2-31)
Melwire Rolling 167/8 in 46.1 overs (Sisitha Madanayake 26, Chathun Ranasinghe 26*; Oshada Wickremasinghe 5-23)
At DHH Sports Complex Negombo, Hayleys B won by 8 wickets
Colombo Dockyard 78/10 in 19.2 overs (Shanaka Kaun 25, Hashan Janith 20*; Kalana Perera 3-19, Daham Nirmal 4-15, Yasiru Jayasinghe 3-20)
Hayleys ‘B’ 79/2 in 10.3 overs (Ryan Fernando 23*, Kavindu Munasinghe 27; Uchitha Alankar 2-39)