Win for Kandy Zone 2

By Shamseer Jaleel

Kandy Zone 2 beat Trincomalee by three runs in their Under-19 Provincial Youth League Cricket Tournament Central and Eastern Province encounter played in Batticaloa.

Meanwhile, Kandy Zone 3 beat Ampara by 94 runs on the DL method in another match played at the Lake View Grounds in Kandy.

Chief scores

At Batticaloa:

Kandy Zone 2: 144 in 34.1 overs (Kaushika  Kumarasinghe 47, Kanishka Niranjana 4/22, Dilmith Vimosha 3/28, Adeepa Idumina 2/13)

Trincomalee: 141 in 49.5 overs (Dilmith Vimosha 62, Dasun Waliyanga 2/16, Nathan Ebert 2/31, Bimash Samarasinghe 2/34).

At Lake View: 
Kandy Zone 3: 263/8 in 33 overs (Puleesha Thilakarathne 90, Nikeshala Nanayakkara 47, Aadhel Sheriff 33, Sithum Shehara 3/31, Dimasha Thenuhas 2/43)
Ampara (Target 173 in 22 overs): 78/5 in 22 overs (Mohammed Safeek 21, Kenula Pihilianga 2/4).