Lanka Cavaliers in thrilling win

Lanka Cavaliers registered a thrilling win with eight balls to spare against Legends of Richmond in a keenly contested Masters 30 overs Cricket encounter, played for the Nihal Gunawardena Trophy at the Bloomfield ground on Sunday.

Legends of Richmond openers Dilshan Amarasinghe and Asitha De Silva got them to a fine start with a 72 run partnership and Manoj Perera claiming the wicket of Dilshan Amarasinghe after stroking a solid 26 runs. Nalliah Devarajan coming into the attack got the wickets of the next three batters including Asitha De Silva, who played a star studded innings stroking 64 runs . .Nalliah Devarajan had the best figures of 4 scalps,

Lanka Cavaliers chasing this total, openers Sujith Perera and Vajira Wijegunawardena got 31 runs on the board and with the dismissal of Sujith Perera then Vajira Wijegunawardena stroking a marvellous knock of 58 runs were at one stage reeling at 4 for 119 , Wasanthalal Fernando and Chaminda Rajapakse , together took the score closer to the winning target , where they were needing 55 runs ,but dismissal of Wasanthalal Fernando stroking an entertaining knock of 33 runs and the 5th wicket falling at 167 runs but Mahesh Wijenaike joining Chaminda Rajapakse took past the winning target

Legends of Richmond – 173 / 8 in 30 overs Dilshan Amarasinghe 26, Asitha De Silva 64, P.A. Gunawardena 21, S.T.R Jajyasekera 24 not out, Nalliah Devarajan 4/ 19, Chaminda Rajapakse 2/ 24

Lanka Cavaliers – 174 / 5 in 28.4 overs Vajira Wijegunawardena 58, Sriyan Hewawasam 11, Suranjith Dharmasena 12, Wasanthalal Fernando 33, Chaminda Rajapakse 28 not out, Prasad Abeysundera 2/ 39