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Massive Win for Chilaw Marians Sun Min and Jithmie Top Seeds

Massive Win for Chilaw Marians Sun Min and Jithmie Top Seeds

Monday 11th February, 2008 Elated India down Aussies February 10 2008: India record- TEAM M W L T NR BP PTS ed their first win in this year's India 3 1 0 0 2 00 08 Commonwealth Bank Series as they 3 1 1 0 1 01 07 edged home in a low-scoring 2 0 1 0 1 00 02 encounter in Melbourne. (four points for a win; 2 for NR-no result; After bowling Australia out for BP-bonus point) just 159, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni steered the visi- unbeaten 65, managed to make any tors home with an unbroken sixth-wick- impression with the bat for the hosts, et stand of 58. who were bowled out inside 44 overs. The pair made sure 's India had made a good start in pur- career-best figures of four for 38 earlier suit of such a low target, even if they in the day didn't go to waste, pushing did lose opener Virender Sehwag for SCOREBOARD India to the top of the points table. just 11. Australia Only Mike Hussey, who hit an looked in good A Gilchrist lbw b Sreesanth 0 India M Hayden c Dhoni b I. Sharma 25 V Sehwag lbw b Bracken 11 R Ponting c Tendulkar b I. Sharma 9 S Tendulkar c Lee b Johnson 44 M Clarke c R.G. Sharma b Pathan 11 I Pathan lbw b Johnson 18 A Symonds c Dhoni b I. Sharma 14 G Gambhir c Clarke b Lee 20 M Hussey not out 65 c Hussey b Clark 3 B Haddin st Dhoni b 5 RG Sharma not out 39 B Lee c Dhoni b Pathan 10 MS Dhoni not out 17 M Johnson c Uthappa b Sreesanth 3 Extras: (lb 3, w 5) 8 N Bracken c Tendulkar b Sreesanth 1 Total (5 ; 45.5 overs) 160 S Clark c Dhoni b I. Sharma 0 Extras: (1b,3lb,9w,3nb) 16 Did not bat: Uthappa, Harbhajan Singh, TOTAL (all out) 159 Sreesanth, Sharma Overs: 43.1 Fall of wickets1-18, 2-54, 3-89, 4-96, 5-102 Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-37, 3-47, 4-64, 5-75, 6- Bowling : Lee 9 0 41 1, Bracken 10 0 35 1, S 92, 7-145, 8-151, 9-155, 10-159 Clark 10 1 25 1, Johnson 10 1 25 2, J Clarke 4 0 Bowling: Shantha Sreesanth 9-0-31-3 (2w), 12 0, Symonds 2.5 0 19 0 Ishant Sharma 9.1-1-38-4 (2w 3nb), Toss: Australia, who chose to bat first 8-0-26-2 (2w), Harbhajan Singh 8-2-19-1 (3w), Points: India 4, Australia 0 Virender Sehwag 5-0-24-0, Yuvraj Singh 2-0-11- Player of the Match: I Sharma (India) 0, Sachin Tendulkar 2-0-6-0

form as he raced to 45, including taking key wickets of , 12 off one over from Brett Lee. Ponting and Andrew Symonds as wick- However, his departure in the 26th ets fell at regular intervals. over was quickly followed by the dis- S Sreesanth provided excellent sup- missal of Yuvraj Singh for just three as port for his new-ball partner, taking 3 the tourists slumped to 102 for five. for 31 in his nine overs. Skipper Dhoni came out to steady the It was his dismissal of Adam ship, combining with 20-year-old Gilchrist, trapped lbw without scoring, Sharma (39 not out) to get India across that set the tone as Australia struggled the finishing line and move them closer on a pitch with good pace and carry. A jubilant Ishant Sharma: Man of the to a place in the final of the three-team Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, selected Match and four wickets for 38. tournament. as a batter in place of all-rounder (AP Photo) Defeat also means Australia, who James Hopes, made just five and when elected to bat first after he was off the bowling of hander hitting four fours in his unbeat- had won the toss, still have work to do if Harbhajan Singh, the hosts were 92 for en 88-ball innings. they are to finish in the top two. six. The next top-scorer was Hayden with Their performance with the bat was Hussey's first one-day half in 25 from 21 balls, while extras came third unusually poor, seamer Sharma, play- a year at least made sure the bowlers with 16. Only three other Australian ing in just his fourth ODI, claimed the had something to work with, the left- batsmen reached double figures.

Premier League Massive win for Chilaw Marians by Revata S. Silva Chilaw Marians beat Bloomfield by a massive 285 runs at Bloomfield grounds, on Sunday. Scores: Chilaw 319 and 354 for 9 wkts Bloomfield 206 and (o/n 72-3) 182 all out in 45.4 ovs (Tharaka Gunaratne 41, Anoj Ketipearachchi 34, Shanuka Dissanayake 41; Dinuka Hettiarachchi 4- 29, Shaminda Eranga 3-36) Tamil Union win enthralling match at Colts: Scores: Tamil Union 198 and 213 Colts 165 and (o/n 135-3) (target 247) Kanchana 237 all out in 65.1 ovs (Malintha Gunawardene Warnapura 54, Danuka Pathirana 55, Angelo Mathews 59 n.o.; Muthumudalige Pushpakumara 3-41) Kanchana steals the show with 185 at SSC Scores: NCC 273 and (o/n 95-2) 393 all out in 114.1 ovs [Kanchana Gunawardene 185 (313 balls, 4x18, 6x3), Ishan Mutaliph 36, Damith Indika 54, Mapa Bandara 32; Sachithra Senanayake 4-90] SSC 444

25th ITF International Tennis at SSC Sun Min and Jithmie top seeds by Revata S. Silva Thangarajah Dineshkanthan After over 20 entrants was seeded third while other withdrew, including players the two Lankan entries, who have high ITF junior rak- Michael Siyaguna and ings, due to prevailing securi- Guyanga Weerasekera are the ty situation in the island, No.7 and 8 seeds respectively. Shun Min Yam of Hong Kong Minami Hashizvme of and Jithmie Jayawickrema of Japan was the bottom seed in Sri Lanka are the top seeds in the girls’ singles while the the boys’ and girls’ categories, local entrants from that seg- respectively, at the 25th ITF ment, Amritha Muttiah and International Junior Tennis Nilupul Goonasekera are Tournament (Grade 5) now on No.3 and 7. at the SSC in Colombo. In the only qualifier for The boys’ bottom seed, the Main Draw, held Saturday according to the draw held (9), between India’s J. K. last afternoon, under Referee Mariwala and Sri Lanka’s Ishara Seneviratne, was Kaushalya Kulatunga, saw Kriangkral Trajoubphansri the Indian beat the local 6-1, from Thailand. Sri Lanka’s 6-1.

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