This has been quite a hard tournament to follow and update.
Firstly, as you can imagine, the coverage in Sri Lanka has been patchy. Also, there are so many teams and the fixtures are all over-lapping; for example, a round of matches has finished today but another started today as well…..problematic, at best. I will therefore take this arbitrary point to offer you some findings.
Moors are the team to beat so far. They are the only team with a 100% record which is even more impressive considering they have played 3 matches – whereas others have just played the one.
As ever in these competitions there are some huge gulfs in terms of the teams. On 6 occasions teams have been beaten by an innings. Moors success is underlined by the fact that they have beaten 2 teams by that margin. Fans of Kandy will be concerned that they have been beaten by an innings now fewer than three times.
The standout batter in the tournament remains Nishan Madushka. He registered a huge 300* in the last round of fixtures against lowly Sebastianites. With a score like that you will not be surprised to hear he is the highest tournament run scorer as well with nearly 200 more than anyone else.
This round of games has also seen the Sri Lankan domestic legend that is Malinda Pushpakumara land the outrageous figures of 8-27 in Colts innings victory over Lankan. This is the second eightfer of the tournament. The first was bagged by Sri Lankan Army’s Kamul Nanayakkara in a match against Bloomfied. Nanayakkara is the tournament’s best wicket taker with 24 @ 12.95.
Matches continue…..seemingly all the time.