National Super League 4 day Tournament 2024
2024.01.20
Yesterday (19), the second day of the first week of Sri Lanka Cricket’s National Super League four-day cricket event, the players were forced to postpone their performances owing to rain and bad weather.
Despite this, Team Colombo’s Nuvanindu Fernando struck a century, and Team Galle’s Udit Madhushan produced his finest first-class bowling performance today.
Aside from that, Nishan Madushka of Team Jaffna did well, hitting a half-century.
Today’s contest between Team Galle and Team Kandy at Suriyawewa Stadium in Hambantota lasted only 21 overs.
After the afternoon break, the game at Colombo’s SSC Stadium got underway. On that day, it will be restricted to 78 overs. But that match only saw 50 overs because of the rain and unfavorable weather.
Team Galle vs Team Kandy
Team Galle’s won the toss
After taking 6 wickets and scoring 339 runs on the first day of the match, the Team Kandy players added 26 runs to their batting today and lost the remaining 4 wickets. It just needed 40 balls to do this. They thus scored 365 runs in the opening frame.
Sahan Arachchige was only able to score seven additional runs today after scoring 81 runs the day before without losing. His innings therefore concluded with 88 runs. He had hit two sixes and nine fours in his innings of 135 balls at that point.
Udit Madhushan, a right-arm fast bowler, finished the innings with five wickets for 46 runs after taking two earlier in the day.
During the reply innings, Team Galle could only play till the interval. The rain caused two major delays: first, it delayed the game by almost an hour; second, it returned and rained all day.
Team Galle has lost all three wickets and there were 39 runs on the scoreboard during the live match.
At that point, Pasindu Suriyabandara had scored 17 runs without out and Dinesh Chandimal was still in the field with no wickets, while Sangeet Kure (0), Oshanda Fernando (13) and Lakshan Edirisinghe (6) had completed their innings with less runs.
The three wickets belonged to Chamika Gunasekara, Sithum Dissanayake, and Lasith Amudeniya.
Score Card
Team Kandy – First innings all out 365 (93.4) Kasun Vidura 45, Lahiru Udara 100, Sahan Arachchige 88, Ahan Wickramasinghe 63, Milan Ratnayake 2/56, Ramesh Mendis 2/75, Udit Madhushan 5/46
Team Galle – 39 for 3 (14.0) Pasindu Suriyabandara 17 not out, Lasith Amudeniya 1/08
Team Colombo vs Team Jaffna
After entering the field late today, the men from Team Colombo, who had scored 275 for 4 wickets the day before, extended their total to 348 runs.
Today Nuvanindu Fernando achieved his century after scoring 90 not out the day before. When he was removed as the second wicket of the day, he had hit 105 off 259 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes.
Furthermore, Chamindu Wickramasinghe completed a significant task that day. He hit two fours and a six in his 22 runs off of 56 balls.
Lahiru Madhushanka got three wickets for 39 runs, while Geoffrey Vandersay and Ravindu Fernando each claimed two wickets. Furthermore, Shashika Dulshan, Santhush Gunathilake, and Shiran Fernando each claimed a wicket.
Team Jaffna took to the field for the reply innings late in the day due to bad weather that prevented them from playing earlier in the day. Only 18 overs made up his innings today, and when the game was called, they had amassed 81 runs at the expense of one wicket.
Nishan Madushka, the opening batsman, got a half century for that. Against 57 balls, he scored 52 not out with 4 fours and 2 sixes, and Hasitha Boyagoda finished undefeated with 11 runs.
Team Colombo – First innings 348 all out (121.1) Shevon Daniel 78, Nuvanindu Fernando 105, Himasha Liyanage 56, Chamindu Wickramasinghe 22, Lahiru Madhushanka 3/39, Ravinda Fernando 2/74, Jeffrey Vandersay 2/77
Team Jaffna – 81 for 1st innings (18.0) Nishan Madushka 52 not out, Isitha Wijesundara 1/11
These 2 matches are going to be played on the third day tomorrow.
@charith
