

Premier League Cricket
Sachithra takes six for SSC
Sachithra Senanayake, the 24-year-old opening bowler for SSC, took six wickets for 114 runs in a long spell of 41 overs against their neighbouring rivals NCC, the current table leaders of the tournament. NCC, though, made a decent total of 296 for eight in a match began at their home grounds on Friday (6). That was in one of the six round-6 matches of this season’s Premier League three-day cricket tournament.
Meanwhile Bloomfield and Badureliya SC hold the second and third places respectively in the tournament points table. There are 12 teams that are taking part in this year’s Premier League.
Brief Scores:
At NCC:
NCC (won the toss) 296 for 8 wkts in 90 ovs (Upul Tharanga 95, Dinesh Chandimal 70, Akalanka Ganegama 59; S. Senanayake 6-114) vs SSC
At P. Sara:
Ragama CC (toss) 136 for 4 wkts in 37 ovs (Indika de Saram 53 n.o.) vs Badureliya SC
At Bloomfield:
Bloomfield 191 for 4 wkts in 53 ovs (Saman Jayantha 53) vs Colts CC (toss)
At CCC:
Tamil Union (toss) 193 all out in 53.3 ovs (Sajith Fernando 67; Sohan Boralessa 3-34, Lasantha Manoj 3-43, Chandra Kumara 3-49)
CCC 49 for 2 wkts in 12.2 ovs
At Moors:
Moors SC 257 for 5 wkts in 92 ovs (Hasantha Fernando 64, Nadeera Nawela 61, Chanaka Silva 3-18) vs SL Army SC (toss)
At Colts:
Chilaw Marians SC 220 for 6 wkts in 75.2 ovs (Milinda Siriwardana 57, Nimesh Perera 56 n.o., Harsha Cooray 50; Dilshan Wimaladarma 4-73) vs Saracens SC (toss)