The Island, Friday 17th November, 2006 Warnapura hits battling ton but Getting ready for a different innings North Zone lift Duleep Trophy Despite Malinda Warnapura’s bat- tling hundred, North Zone clinched the Duleep Trophy with an eight-wicket win over Sri Lanka A at the Eden Gardens, yesterday. Warnapura was unbeaten on 149 in a total of 426, but a target of 87 was too wickets tumbled at one end, Warnapura easy for North, who won in 18.1 overs battled on. with Aakash Chopra backing his first- Rajesh Sharma, the offspinner from innings hundred with an unbeaten 51. Punjab, picked up two wickets to com- Sri Lanka A began the day 81 runs plete his second first-class five wicket behind, and lost four wickets in the first haul. session. Chamara Silva, Kaushal Silva North last won the title in 2003-04. and Rangana Herath all hit quick runs Sri Lanka A 296 and 426 (M. but couldn’t match Warnapura for Warnapura 149 n.o, M. Vandort 37, M. resolve or skill. Overnight on 82, Udawatte 28, T. Samaraweera 31, J. Warnapura was cautious while in the Mubarak 36, C. Silva 34, K. Silva 35; nineties, but brought up his hundred Sharma 5/119) with a four off Ashis Nehra and collect- North Zone 636 for 7 decl and 87 for ed three more in the bowler’s next. As 2 (Chopra 51 n.o) Malinda Warnapura Under-13 Division IV cricket Hewage spoils Thurstan plans by Reemus Fernando Seethawaka MV 25) An undefeated 56 runs by Praneeth Dharmaraja 196 shock Royal Hewage helped vs Sri Rahula by Reemus Fernando Dharmapala College Formidable draw their inter-school Dharmaraja College, Seethawaka MV Avissavella, who Under 20 cricket tourna- Kandy were restricted to took to cricket just two years ago, ment match against 196 as Sri Rahula shocked Royal College, Colombo when Thurstan College at College’s Janaka they recorded a first innings victory in Thurstan ground, yes- Sampath and M.P. their Under-13 Division IV tournament terday. Gunawardena shared 5 match at Royal College ground, yester- Dharmapala, who managed only 125 wickets between them in their match day. in their first innings in reply to the oppo- which commenced at Uyanwatta ground, After restricting Royal to 170 runs, nents’231 for 5 declared, were following yesterday. the visitors made 200. on when Hewage’s half ton rescued It was a fighting half century by J.C. Royal 170 (N.D.T. Manathunga 23, them. They made 103 for 4 in their sec- Ratnayake which helped visitors reach C.A. Nanayakkara 54; Kavisha ond essay. 196 after being 120 for 7 at one stage. Dahanayake 3/21, Dileepa Nilupul 3/23, Thurstan 231 for 5 declared in 69 In reply, Sri Rahula were 13 for no This is not the image of Alex Kontouri or Tommy Simsek attending to an injured Sanath Jayasuriya. This PRasanna Pushpakumara 2/30) overs loss at close is the scene of a makeup artist doing the final touches before the former Sri Lankan captain appeared Seethawaka MV 200 (Ayesh Khan Dharmapala (10 for 1 o/n) 125 in 53.5 Dharmaraja 196 (J.C. Ratnayake 66, in a television commercial suit in Colombo. With the festive season fast approaching, business organ- 26, Shammika Gihan 27, Rashmika overs (Sameen Kandanarachchi 30, T.N. Batuwangala 30, P.R. Amarakoon 26; isations are thinking of new ideas to sell their products and country’s cricketers are in high demand. Shehan 24, Shehan Achintha 23, Lahiru Praneeth Hewage 43 n.o; Rishi Ukwatta Janaka Sampath 3/40, M.P This commercial by a leading business organisation using a well known face in the country is set to be Ishan 20; M. Harith 3/21, N.D.T. 3/11) and 103 for 4 at close in 43 overs Gunawardena 2/17) aired during the festive season. - Pic by Nishan S. Priyantha. Manathunda 3/60) (Praneeth Hewage 56 n.o, I. Athureliya Sri Rahula 13 for no loss Teenagers eclipse Asian Games rugby Sachin-Kambli record trials tomorrow Two junior cricketers from Hyderabad by Rukshan Razak created history when they added a world- Seneviratne, will decide on record 721 runs in 40 overs to eclipse the The selection trials for the final twelve-member 664-run stand between Sachin Tendulkar the Sri Lanka team for the team on Saturday,”Fernando and Vinod Kambli set in 1987-88. The St Sevens rugby tournament of added. Peter’s School openers B. Manoj Kumar the Asian Games in Doha Sanjeewa Jayasinghe, and Mohammed Shaibaaz Tumbi, both 13, Qatar, will be held tomorrow who led the Sri Lanka Sevens hit an unbeaten 320 and 324 respectively (Nov 18) at the Royal College rugby team at the recently in the Hyderabad Cricket Association Sports Complex at Reid concluded International Inter-School Under-13 tournament on Avenue, said Dilroy Sevens tournament in Kandy Wednesday. Fernando, the Executive to their best ever perform- Manoj’s innings consumed only 120 Manoj Kumar, (right) and Director of SLRFU, yester- ance by finishing fourth in deliveries and included 46 fours, while Mohamed Shaibaaz Tumbi day. the tournament, has been Shaibaaz needed just 116 balls and hit 57 “Currently a twenty-two named as the Captain this fours to batter the St Phillip’s High School “We knew our individual scores and member squad is undergoing time too. attack. The mammoth partnership was were told about the world record only training and the five-mem- The tournament will be put together in a single day, unlike the when the innings ended,” they told The ber committee of national worked off on December 10 three days shared by Tendulkar and Hindu. “We feel nice to have broken selectors headed by Asanga and 11 in Doha. Kambli. Sachin and Kambli’s record. “I never knew I was breaking a world record. I was just playing for myself and my school. I only realised when I returned Ashes to get official poet to the pavilion that I’d broken a record by A Derbyshire man has been year. scoring a triple century,” said Mohammad appointed as the first official poet- The poet, who is contributing Shahbaz. in-residence for the Ashes tour. £3,000 of his own money to the The closest any Test batting duo came David Fine, from Bakewell, will project, claims cricket and poetry to going past the Tendulkar-Kambli write 25 poems, one for each have an age-old connection. record was when Mahela Jayawardene day’s play of the England v He lists England fast bowler and Kumar Sangakkara added 624 for the Australia cricket series which John Snow, who published a col- third wicket against South Africa in Sri begins on 23 November. lection of poetry in the early Lanka earlier this year. The majority of funding for the 1970s, as an example. “When we were on the 600-run mark, post has come from the Arts “Wordsworth, Tennyson, our coach informed us that there were 38 Council England. Betjeman, Housman, Chesterton runs left for the world record and The poems will be published and Hughes have all gone out to instructed us to play well and not get out. on a website set up for the project bat for cricket, in verse. We were under pressure and that’s why and also broadcast with a talk “A line is a ball, a rhyme per- we played slowly,” said Manoj. from the poet via the BBC website haps a wicket. Speaking on the one chance that for Derby. “In the stands, this is reflected Manoj gave when on 285, Shaibaaz said: Mr Fine, a formal social work- by the 41 chants and songs in the “We deserved that slice of luck. It was our er, has spent the past 18 years Barmy Army’s Barmy Harmonies day”. writing poetry. for last year’s Ashes Tour,” he St. Phillip’s day didn’t get much better He said he was inspired to said. as the opening bowler Akram picked up 7 suggest the idea to the Arts The poet-in-residence will fly for 11 to bowl them out for 21 in seven Council while listening to the out to Australia on 19 November. overs. cricket when he was ill earlier this - BBC - Cricinfo.com Published by Upali Newspapers Ltd, 223, Bloemendhal Road, Colombo 13. and Printed at 195/187, High Level Road, Homagama on Friday 17th November, 2006.