SERENDIB CRICKET

Serendib's chance of winning first ever cup final had been vanished due to Lions good tight bowling.Although Serendib lost the toss , Buddhika Manoj and Shiron Dharshana bowled fantastic opening spell to stop Lions usual attacking style of batting.In the first 5 overs, Lions score was just 14 runs.But after the 5 overs,with the help of some loose bowling they gradually accelarated the run rate.In the end Serendib came back to the game with some good fielding effort to restrict Lions innings to a reachable score of 101 runs.This is good bowling effort considering the Lions powerfull batting lineup.

Serendib openers Shiron Dharshana and Lasith Rathanamalala started their run chase but couldnt give a good start both of them got out too early.But Dhanuka who was promoted to batting looks realy good hitting some nice shots.But his run out gave Lions to get back to the game.It was the turning point of the match after that Serendib batsman failed to score required run rate of 5 runs.At the end of the 10 overs Serendib score was 30 runs way behind of the required run rate.That shows the accuracy of Lions bowling.In the end Serendib batsman tried to accelarate the run rate but wickets were fallen regular intervals.Finally Lions won the JGC 20/20 cup by 26 runs.

Yesterday Serendib registered another easy win against Paddy Foleys.It was a morning game and as usual some of serendib players were late.But this time paddys captain wanted to reduce our allocated overs as a panalty.So Serendib started the game with loosing 2 overs.To add more trouble serendib lost the toss for the 5th consecutive time for this season and had to field once more.Serendib opening bowler Chamila Silva started a unsual bad over with 10 runs including 7 wides.But serendib managed to get back to the bowling rythem after taking 2 outstanding run outs by Dhanuka samaranayake and Shiron Dharshana.With the introduction of Shiron Dharshana to bowl paddys down fall was started.Shiron Dharshana bowled really good line and length and that help to get 3 wickets.One time he was on a hat trick but unfortunately he couldnt get his 2nd hat trick on serendib history.In the end Paddys were restricted to mere 63 runs in the exactly 18th over.

Serendib stared thier small chase of with a new batting order.But wickets were fallen regular intervals starting from Buddhika Manoj in the first over.Sasanka Salgadu who was playing his first game as a batsman played some glorious shots including a massive six over long leg boundery.Chamila silva gave a good support with scoring 18 runs in quick time.In the end Serendib chased thir target of 64 runs with five wickets in hand.Man of the match for this game should be given to Sasanka Salgadu for his sencible batting and some tight bowling.

Serendib recoreded thier 2nd back to back victory in the JGC 20/20 competition last Sunday.This time oppponent was Tokyo Dragonz sport club.Serendib went to this game with only having 10 players on thier hand.Serendib captain Asankha Pallegedara lost the toss for the 4th consecutive time in this season and had to bowl under the good batting track.But Serendib opening bowlers Chamila Silva and Shiron Dharshana bowled a remarkable spell of fast bowling.After the six overs scorecard was showed like 12 runs for the loss of 3 wickets.Serendib new find Chamila Silva in perticular never give any room to Dragons batsmans to play attacking shots.After the finishing of serendib opening spells Dragons players gradually start to collect runs.In the end thier score was 88 all out in the 20th over.Chamila Silva was the pick of the bowlers with the match figures of 3for8.Also Sasanka Salgadu grabbed 3 important wickets for 15 runs with his fast leg cutters.

Serendib started their target with heavy blow since skipper Asankha were gone for duck.Then our experienced Duminda Wickramarathna hit some attacking fours but he also went out for 12 runs.But opener Lasith Rathnamalala anchored the innings with good support were given by Jayathura,Amesh and Shiron Dharshana.Finally Lasith got out but in that time serendib victory was inevitable.Shiron Dharshana collected the winnings runs by glorious lofted off drive.Now Serendib virtually in the JGC semi finals with still one game to play.