SRILANKANS TAKE LEAGUE TITLE

In final Sunday of the league season the Srilankans were crowned the league champions and Moufflons by taking 8 points against WSBA pushed themselves into fifth place in the league, one point ahead of Amdocs and one point behind Fellows.

After their game at the UN ground Srilankan CC were awarded the league trophy, accepted by captain Dileepa.

In the six years of the Cyprus league this is the third time that the Srilankans have taken the trophy home.

The Srilankans are sponsored by Mr Vikramasinga, President of the Srilankan Welfare Association, and we are all grateful to him for his continued support of Cyprus cricket through the years.

All the Srilankan team were presented with their championship medals.

Lions lay 8 points behind in second place and Cyprus College Flames are third.

In contention for bowler of the season mention was given to Rajoram of Amdocs and Anju of Srilankan CC for their hat tricks, Niroshan (Srilankan CC) and Chris Markides (Fellows) for their economy, 5 wicket takers Alan (Moufflons), Kapila (Lions), Nishit (Flames) Prashes (Flames), Sunil (Amdocs), Bhatti (Taj) and Fernado (Fellows) for 3 times taking 3 wickets in an innings, Anju (Srilankan CC) and Aman Deep (Amdocs) for 2 times taking three wickets in an innings. One bowler managed both to take a five wicket haul and take three wickets in three innings and this was Kapila of Lions.

Kapila bowler of the season. 16 wickets taken. 3-17 v Flames,4-11 v Amdocs, 5-32 v Srilankan CC.

In contention for best batsman were Rubel (Moufflons) for his century 116 v Aynic., Muhammad (Moufflons) for four innings of more than 40 runs, 63 v Lions, 62 v Aynic, 58 v Amdocs and 40 v Fellows and Sampath Tsangerides (Srilankan CC) for three innings over 40 runs, 87 v Moufflons, 55 v Dekelia and 40 v WSBA. But for producing the goods in vital games against Fellows and Lions, with five innings of over 40 runs, and for being the first batsman in the Cyprus league to score over one thousand runs, batsman of the season is Dileepa.

Dileepa, batsman of the season. 86 no v Fellows, 53 no v Aynic, 54 no v Flames, 44 v Flames, 60 v Taj.