The Island, Monday 25th September, 2006 Sanath and Vaas set to play for Middlesex Chaminda Vaas have been John Embury together with The two players got the call England in the five match ODI approached by leading English Vinny Codrington, the CEO of after Middlesex faired poorly series that followed. county Middlesex to be their the county met the two players this season and finished as the Jayasuriya (38), next year, has overseas players for the next to discuss matters. The national last team in the County previously represented Somerset season. Jayasuriya also has team has hardly any interna- Championship. They were also in county cricket while Vaas (32) been asked to take over the cap- tional assignments next season relegated to Division 2 together has had successful stints with taincy of the London based soon after the World Cup with with Nottinghamshire after Hampshire and Worcestershire. county. only a series against winning just one of their 16 With very little international Officials of the county were Bangladesh scheduled for the games. cricket scheduled for next season in Colombo on Thursday to dis- time being and both veterans Both Vaas and Jayasuriya did during the English summer sen- cuss matters with the two senior could play the full season. extremely well in England this ior Sri Lankan cricketers like cricketers and the players had Lord’s Cricket Ground, the season during Sri Lanka’s suc- Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sanath expressed their willingness to Home of Cricket, is also the cessful tour. While Vaas played a Sangakkara and Mahela Vaas be the county’s overseas players home for Middlesex and the two vital role with both bat and the Jayawardene could get opportu- by Rex Clementine for the coming season. Sri Lankans will be playing the ball in the drawn Test series, nities in England. There are Muttiah Muralitharan who has Opening batsman Sanath Former England spinner and county’s home matches at the Jayasuriya was a key figure as talks that Lancashire will be des- had three successful stints at Old Jayasuriya and left arm seamer Cricket Director of Middlesex revered venue. the tourists’ whitewashed perate to get back spin wizard Trafford. Hat-trick for “Kawapettha” 32nd National Sports Festival Amarasekara qualifies for AG SSC win Under-23 by Champika Fernando record was an automatic selection for the event. Jayasinghe who won the 200m dash on Prasanna Amarasekera became only the Saturday completed a sprint double clocking fourth Sri Lanka athlete to meet the Asian an impressive 11.67 secs. in the shorter sprint Games (AG) qualifying standard when he fin- (100m). ished first with a time of 46.51 secs. in the Following their impressive performances cricket title men’s 400m dash at the final day of the 32nd Amarasekera and Jayasinghe were adjudged by Revata S. Silva SCOREBOARD National Sports Festival at the floodlit best male and female athlete of the 32nd Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. National Sports Festival. SSC 1st inngs. 308 all out Singhalese Sports Club yesterday regis- The Athletic Association Two more meet records - NCC 1st inngs. (o/n 207-66) Sri Lanka Records tered a memorable win at this year’s U. Tharanga c K. Silva b Jayaweera 02 of Sri Lanka (AASL) set a Established The men’s and Under-23 Division-I cricket championship D. Dahanayake c Karunanayake b Jayaweera 08 qualifying standard for the Discus Throw (Men) women’s 1500m saw the final, organized by Sri Lanka Cricket, by S. Wijeratne c & b Mohamed 37 Asian Games which will be 53.52 — K. G. U. P. Jayawardana NWP setting up of two meet T. Fernando c K. Silva b Abeydeera 37 National Sports Festival Records ousting their nextdoor rivals Nondescrpits K. Kulasekara c Abeydeera b M. Silva 80 the basis for selection for the 1500 M. (Men) records on the final day. Cricket Club, on the first innings’ result, at J. Savarymuthapulle c Shriyapala b Abeydeera 08 Doha Asian Games in 3:46.77 — W. M. C. Wijekoon UP The national record holder their home grounds at Maitland Place, L. Malinga b Abeydeera 03 December in addition to the High Jump (Men) Chaminda Wijekoon 2.13 A. D. N. P. Rathnasiri WP T. Kottehewa run out 37 Colombo. gold medal winners at the Triple Jump (Men) secured another milestone U. Waruna run out 39 SSC bowled out NCC 23 runs short of recent South Asian Games 16.18 — S. D. C. S. Weerasinghe NWP in his career clocking C. Komasaru not out 05 1500 M. (Women) their first innings total of 308 yesterday. D. Mapa c&b Mohamed 05 (SAG). 4:34.84 — D. A. S. Samanmali NWP 3:46.77 secs. while D.A.S. NCC’s Kosala Kulasekara showed a great Extras (lb2, nb11, w1) 14 The qualifying standard 5000 M. Samanmali clocked resistance to SSC bowling scoring 80 in an Total (all out in 110.5 overs) 285 of the longer sprint was set at 17:00.40 — D. A. Inoka CP 4:34.84 secs. for her FoW: 1-2, 2-14, 3-86, 4-92, 5-118, 6-130, 215, 8-241, 9-278 400 M. Hurdles (Women) arduous and over four-and-half hour stay Bowling: Jayaweera 10-0-51-2, M. Silva 10-2-25-1, 47 seccs. 61.82 — S. V. A. Kusumawathie CP record. The previous in the middle. He hit eight fours but could- Karunanayake 14-4-38-0, Mohamed 28.5-4-93-2, Incidentally this was High Jump (Women) records for men’s and n’t help his team surpass the SSC total in Abeydeera 44-12-69-3, Indika 2-0-7-0 Prasanna’s second best time 1.72 — Tharanga Vinodani SP women’s 1500m stood at Shot Put (Women) the crunch game. in the season where his sea- 14.15 — M. N. D. Muthunayake NWP 3:48.03 and 4:35.70 secs. SSC 2nd inngs. NCC, though, staged an enthralling R. Fernando not out 34 sonal best stands at 46.27 respectively. Accordingly fight back in the afternoon with the help of D. Cooray c Bandara b Malinga 09 secs. recorded at the Asian Grand Prix series. eight meet records were shattered altogether SL national Lasith Malinga, who took a H. Fernando b S’muthupulle 04 “I was going through a bad period for a during the three-days of competition in addi- hat-trick yesterday. All three wickets were D. Indika c Mapa b Dahanayake 24 while. I am looking forward to fight my way tion to the National record established in the K. Silva c Malinga b Komasaru 11 taken by clean bowling the batsmen, J. Shriyapala b Malinga 04 back at the Asian Games,” Prasanna said. men’s Discus Throw. Karunanayake, Mohamed and Abeydeera. S. Karunanayake b Malinga 00 Accordingly Prasanna will join Rohan WP clinches championships - His hat-trick followed his first scalp, taken S. Mohamed b Malinga 00 Pradeep Kumara (200m, 400m), Sampath Western Province continued their domi- also through ‘bowling’ the batsman in his D. Abeydeera b Malinga 00 Weerasinghe (Triple Jump) and Susanthika nance in the country’s biggest sporting show- M. Silva b Dahanayake 13 seventh over. He then took the hat-trick on C. Jayaweera not out 00 Jayasinghe (100m, 200m) who have earlier piece and emerged champions of the 32nd the 2nd, 3rd and 4th deliveries of his Extras (nb12, b5, lb8) 25 surpassed the qualifying standard in their NSF followed by Central Province and North eighth over, the 39th of the SSC innings. Total (for 9 wkts. in 52 overs) 123 respective events. Western Province. Western had reached a But opener Radhiv Fernando’s consolidat- FoW: 1-26, 2-36, 3-72, 4-91, 5-96, 6-96, 7-96, 8-96, 9-123. However, Rohan, the SAG double gold gold medal haul of 48 to have a tally of 142 Bowling: Malinga 14-6-24-4 (2nb), Kottehewa 5-2-7-0, ing knock (38 n.o. in 232 minutes with six Komasaru 10-5-10-1, Fernando 4-1-14-1 (4nb), Kulasekara medallist did not appear at the National Sports (48 gold, 54 silver, 40 bronze) while Central fours) shattered NCC hopes of bowling out 4-0-9-0, S’muthapulle 10-0-39-1 (6nb), Dahanayake 5-3-5-2. Lasith Malinga, known as “Kawapettha” by Festival but his performance at the recent SAG came closer with 44 gold, 35 silver and 41 SSC to a low total and reaching a small vic- Results- Match Drawn his friends for his unusual bowling action took has given him an automatic selection. bronze to have a tally of 120. North Western tory target in the last few overs of the U-223 Div.-II C’ship – Won by SSC on the first innings’ result a hat-trick yesterday at the U-23 cricket final Sampath who cleared a distance of won 32 gold, 24 silver and 29 bronze to be of final match. at SSC grounds. Pic by Nishan S. Priyantha 16.26m to establish a new South Asian Game placed third in the overall medals tally. Old is gold at SSC Open by Revata S. Silva nering his son Arvind at the Results men’s open doubles at the ‘SSC Boys’ – U-10: M. Sanjeewan (3) bt. Avishka Former Sri Lanka tennis stal- Open,’ won a hard fought three- Perera 9-1, N. Nishangan (4) bt. Anish Wijesinghe 9- 2, Alex Fairbanks (2) bt. U. Dilshantha 9-0, Shamal wart Arjun Fernando (47), who set quarter-final yesterday under Dissanayake (1) bt.