Sri Lanka `A’ notched up two successive victories in the ICC Six Nations’ Challenge Tournament 2001/02, being played in Windhoek, Namibia, defeating Namibia by 7 wickets and Canada by 117 runs
BCCSL09-Apr-2002Sri Lanka `A’ notched up two successive victories in the ICC Six Nations’ Challenge Tournament 2001/02, being played in Windhoek, Namibia, defeating Namibia by 7 wickets and Canada by 117 runs.Ruchira Perera snapped up five wickets for 16 runs off only 4.2 overs, and Avishka Gunawardena scored a whirlwind 83 off 66 balls including 12 fours and a six, as Sri Lanka `A’ cruised past Namibia’s total of 182 with 14.2 overs to spare on Sunday.
Namibia innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6R Walters b ? 48 52 57 4 1S Burger c ? b ? 27 71 73 1 1D Keulder run out 41 32 61 1 1BG Murgatroyd c ? b ? 14 41 29 0 0*DB Kotze c ? b ? 1 4 4 0 0JB Burger c ? b ? 1 9 8 0 0+M van Schoor c ? b ? 20 67 45 1 0BL Kotze c ? b ? 4 6 6 0 0JL Louw c ? b ? 9 15 12 0 0G Snyman b ? 2 9 5 0 0RJ van Vuuren not out 0 1 0 0 0Extras (b 2, lb 4, w 5, nb 4) 15Total (all out, 49.2 overs) 182FoW: 1-77 (Walters), 2-103 (Burger), 3-104 (D Kotze),4-109 (JB Burger), 5-113 (Murgatroyd), 6-? (Keulder),7-167 (B Kotze), 8-175 (van Schaar), 9-182 (Louw),10-182 (Snyman).Bowling O M R WPDRL Perera 9.2 2 16 5 (3w, 1nb)Liyanage 7 0 33 0 (1w)Wijekada 8 1 30 1 (1nb)Herath 9 0 42 2 (1nb)Samaraweera 10 2 37 1 (1w)Mubarak 6 1 18 0 (1nb)Sri Lanka ‘A’ innings (target: 183 from 50 overs) R M B 4 6DA Gunawardena run out 83 53 66 12 1J Mubarak c ? b ? 0 3 3 0 0G Wijekoon c ? b ? 10 77 43 0 0WMB Perera not out 29 59 49 2 1HMNC Silva not out 45 55 53 7 1Extras (b 6, lb 1, w 9) 16Total (3 wickets, 35.4 overs) 183DNB: *TT Samaraweera, +P Jayawardene, CU Jayasinghe, DK Liyanage,HMRKB Herath, PDRL Perera.FoW: 1-1 (Mubarak), 2-107 (Gunawardena), 3-107 (B Perera).Bowling O M R WB Kotze 8 0 47 1 (3w)van Vuuren 4 0 31 0Keulder 1 0 15 0 (1w)Burger 7 0 23 1 (2w)Snyman 3.4 0 23 0 (3w)Louw 6 2 12 0D Kotze 6 0 25 0The scorecard of Monday’s Sri Lanka `A’ versus Canada match has not yet been received, and will be forwarded when it is available. Sri Lanka `A’s next match is versus Zimbabwe `A’ on Wednesday.(BCCSL media release)