SERENDIB CRICKET

Serendib once again lost to Lalazar in the KCL T20 semi final played in Shizuoka. Serendib was looking forward to entering the inaugural KCL T20 final, after scoring 172 runs in the 20 overs batting first. But it was not enough as Lalazar batters who attacked Serndib bowlers every corner of the syzouka ground. Serendib inform batsman Dhanuka Samaranayake once again scored a splendid 50 and new found batsman Jankarathne contributed with scoring 18 runs in the final over of the inning.

Lalazar started their run chase with attacking mood as usual.Although wickets were fallen at regular intervals every one contributed with quick fire runs. Finally captain Gulzar and Razzak chased the target of 172 runs in 19.1 overs.Razzak in particular annihilate the serendib bowlers by hitting mighty sixes.

Serendib now ended their KCL competition at Syzouka for this season but still looking forward to winning the JGC competition that lost in the finals last year.

Serendib's once again lost thier KCL semi final game against Lalazar last weekend.This is the second consecutive semi final elimination of KCL.Last year Serendib lost to Tokyo Giants sports club and this time it is against Lalazar sports club.

Serendib captain Buddhika Samarakoon won the toss at beautiful Syzouka ground.Serendib openers started well with an aggressive manner.But wickets were tumbled at regular interval cause the problem of serendib inning.Dhanuka Samaranayake once again batted with great courage but unfortunately not much support were given by rest of the batsman.Serendib finally got out for 163 runs with the help of Dhanuka's 58 runs.

Lalazar batsman as usual started their run chase by attacking the bowlers.But Serendib bowlers did not give much room for lalazar batsman to slash freely.Lalazar batsman also could not build a good partnership and getting out at regular interval.Once score board showed that 99 runs for 7 wickets.But unbroken 8th wicket partnership of 65 runs ended the Serendib's chance of entering KCL finals.

Serendib got through to the semi finals in the inaugural KCL 20/20 knockout tournament sponsored by Nagoya CC.Serendib defeated Nagoya CC , the sponsors of the tournament by 6 runs at the picturesque Syzouka ground this weekend.Nagoya CC won the toss and asked Serendib to bat first since condition was good for the seam bowling.Nagoya bowlers justify their captain's decision by bowling stump-to-stump line and given extremely few power play runs.Serendib one drop batsman Dhanuka Samaranayake batted with real confidence and scored a 48 runs.Some support were given by Asankha Pallegedara in the beginning and Jayathura Samarakoon at the end.Serendib final score was 114 runs which is not that huge score but dependable one under the wet ground condition.

It is evident that target is not an easy one by any means since Nagoya CC loss their wickets at regular intervals.All the Serendib bowlers bowled tight line and length to restrict Nagoya batsman and eventually they needed run a ball chase from last 6 overs.In the last two overs they needed 13 runs to win the match but in 19th over bowled by spinner Asankha Pallegedara only gave 2 runs and took a wicket.Now Nagoya last pair at the crease and needed 11 runs but bowler was Dhanuka Samaranayake the fastest bowler of the Serendib side.First ball was smashed through the open mid wicket area and next one went through to the wicket keeper.Now Nagoya need 7 runs from 4 balls but in the very next ball Dhanuka got his wicket by hitting the stumps.This gave required victory to knocked the Nagoya CC out of KCL 20/20 competition and Serendib now has to face either alkaraam or Lalazar in the semi finals.

Yesterday Serendib recorded their biggest victory at Edogawa ground against Tigers.

This friendly game reduced to 32 overs per team due to bad ground condition.Serendib captain Shiron dharshana won the toss and elected to bat as usual.They scored 201 runs with the help of some ordinary bowling and fielding performance by Indian Tigers.They conceded 56 wides which was the highest scorer for the match. Both Lasith rathnamalala and Sachintha scored 32 runs each and good support was given by Jayathura Samarakoon who scored 19 runs.

Indian Tigers target run chase was not an easy task since required run rate was over 6 from the beginning.At worst, tigers loss their one of the openers in the very first over.They are no way near the required rate on any time due to serendib accurate bowling.Finally Tigers were walloped again by giving biggest margin victory of 104 runs to Serendib.