Under 10 Inter-Academy Cricket Championship organized and conducted by the Colombo Primer Cricket Foundation (CPCF) was successfully completed with the grand final between hosts CPCF and CCC School of Cricket’Maroons’ at the Dudley Senanayake School grounds, with C.C.C ‘Maroons’ team winning easily by 7 wickets. Incidentally, CCC won the U-09 Tournament last year.
C.C.C. School of Cricket, who won last year, too was unbeaten in the Tournament. They beat Brendon Kuruppu C.A, Asian Grammar School, S.A. Cricket Academy, Moratissa and Malintha Warnapura C.A. In the semilinal CCC met S.S.C ‘Blue’ and beat them by 131 runs.
Chief Scores: - C.C.C. ‘Maroons’ - 278/3 in 30 overs.
Reshon Solomons 105 Not out, Rusandu Silva 101
S.S.C.’Blue’ - 147/8 in 30 Overs.
Nesandu Adambarage 3 for 20, Tharun Ariyaratne 2 for 06, Dushan Uduwela 2 for 20
CCC met the hosts team CPCF in the final - CPCF won the toss and elected to bat first scored 143/9. CCC ‘Maroon’s reached the winning target with seven wickets intact.
Scores
CPCF - 143 for 9 in 30 Overs - Dushan Udawela 3 for 19, Rusandu Silva 2 for 20
CCC ‘Maroon’ - 144 for 3 in 22.3 Overs - Reshon Solomons 63, Tharun Ariyaratne 26 Not out
At the Awards Presentation, CCC players Reshon Solomons won the awards for Man of the Final, while, Tharun Aritaratne won the Best Bowler award.
Other CCC players who did well in the Tournament are - Dushen Udawela (Bowling), Rusandu Silva (All-rounder), Jahan Pathirana (All-rounder) and Amad Afdhal (All-rounder).
Victorious CCC School of Cricket team: Rusandu Silva (Capt), Reshon Solomons (V. Capt), Tharun Ariyaratne, Jahan Pathirana, Thesika Goonatilleke, Dushan Udawela, Amad Afdhal, Rasula Madarasinghe, Esandu Rathnayake,
Nesandu Adambarage, Vohara Kumanayake, Thurunu Mendis, Thiyon De Silva, Nathan Tousaint and Methuka Galapitage.
The team was guided and coached by former Sri Lanka player Rangika Fernando.
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