Under 23 Emerging Club Tournament Mineth, Pulisha shine with unbeaten tons

By M. Shamil Amit

Mineth Premaratne and Pulisha Tillekeratne shone with unbeaten tons for Bloomfield with a comfortable first innings win over Police SC in the Under 23 Emerging Club two day cricket tournament at Police Park. 

Mineth made 134 inclusive of 15 boundaries and Pulisha hit 107 with 12 boundaries and the pair shared a big unbroken 243 runs stand for the second wicket to help the side make a formidable score of 300 for 1 declared. 

This was in reply to Police SC’s score of 211 having resumed from their overnight score of 181 for 8.

Results:

At Police Park – First innings win for Bloomfield
Police SC (181/8 overnight) 211(Nipun Premaratne 50, Supun Fernando 42, Sangeeth Shehan 30, Damith Kappagoda 21, Nisala Abeyratne 3/26, Tharinda Guruge 3/43, Chathum Kulasekera 2/33) and 88 for 5 (Aveesha Samesh 24, Tharinda Guruge 3/25)
Bloomfield 300 for 1 declared (Hasitha Amarasinghe 42, Mineth Premaratne 134 n.o., Pulisha Tillekeratne 107 n.o.)

At Braybrooke Place – First innings win for Navy SC
Moors SC 128 and 229 for 6 (Omesh Mendis 77, Ravishan de Silva 40, Malsha Tharupathi 27, Vishwa Fernando 69 n.o., Hansaja Jayasinghe 3/58, Ishan Anuradha 2/91)
Navy SC (146/3 overnight) 309 for 7 declared (Ruveen Fonseka 110, Hansaja Jayasinghe 59, Chamika Ranasinghe 28, Sumalka Fernando 26, Ruvin Sankalpa 27 n.o., Hivin Kenula 3/26, Lahiru Amarasekera 2/72)

At Colts – First innings win for Negombo CC
Negombo CC (253/6 overnight) 314 for 7 declared (Hasindu Kaviratne 67, Wageesha Perera 34, Shafni Deen 30, Mohamed Murshad 38, Sandeepa Perera 85 n.o., Ryan Dissanayake 4/95) and 16 for 1
Colts CC 236 (Randunu Ganganath 85, Hiruna Gallage 34, Rusanda Gamage 31, Kavija Gamage 28, Sandeepa Perera 5/77, Shehan Pramod 4/93)

At Narahenpita – First innings win for Nugegoda 
Nugegoda S&WC (199/5 overnight) 290 (Pasindu Pathum 107, Pulindu Perera 88, Abishek Jayaweera 28, Dasis Manchanayake 23, Kovindu Wickramasinghe 4/44, Manasa Madubashana 2/75, Sharon Abishek 2/83) and 12 for 0
Badureliya CC 192 (Janeth Kaushal 55, Yenula Dewthusa 32, Kovindu Wickramasinghe 30, Viran Chamuditha 23, Pulindu Perera 4/34, Nirmala Ratnayake 2/45)

At Panagoda – First innings win for Ace Capital
Army SC 68 and 50 for 7 (Wanuja Sahan 4/27, Danal Hemananda 2/13)
Ace Capital (22/1 overnight) 131 for 3 declared (Thanuja Rajapakse 21, Lahiru Dewatage 20, Ranesh Silva 52 n.o., Pawan Pathiraja 28 n.o.: Dimantha Arusha 2/28)

At Galle – No decision
Tamil Union (281/9 overnight) 289 (Sharujan Shanmuganathan 81, Naren Muralitharan 45, Piyumal Wickramaarachchi 37, Sineth Jayawardena 35, Sahanuka Galagoda 20, Vihas Thewmika 20, Manitha Rajapakse 5/61, Rusiru Liyanage 2/54, Hansamana de Silva 2/59)
Galle CC 283 for 8 (Chamath Dilsara 54, Dulsith Dharshana 41, Hansamana de Silva 37, Sandew Induwara 33, Yuri Koththigoda 20, Hasitha Suranga 58 n.o., Kavindu Nirmana 3/52, Mevan Dissanayake 2/52)

At Reid Avenue – No decision
Malay CC (66/1 overnight) 308 for 7 declared (Kevin Samuel 128, Hirantha Jayasinghe 73, Dinitha de Silva 37, Viduneth Wilson 23, Dhanaja Edirisinghe 23 n.o.: Vigneshwaran Akash 3/56, Chamika Heenatigala 2/75)
BRC 112 for 5 (Diniru Abetwickramasinghe 21, Chamika Heenatigala 33 n.o.)