Uva Next v Nagenahira Nagas - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 Premier League – Uva bolster 160 - Live Score and Update
Uva Next 160/7 (20/20 ov) - Uva Next won the toss and chose to bat
Uva Next on Monday, amassed a total of 160 runs for the loss of seven wickets against rivals Nagenahira Nagas in their Sri Lanka Premier League clash, and now need to contain their opponents from reaching the required tally, at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.
Uva Next chose to bat first on winning the toss, but openers EMDY Munaweera and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WU-Tharanga-c2802 managed to post a stand of only 13 runs, before the fielding side drew first blood by dismissing Tharanga for ten.
Skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SHT-Kandamby-c2522, then joined the party and together with Munaweera took the score to a total of 93, jabbing away the bowlers all across the park.
However, in the 12th over, the Uva skipper perished after smashing an innings of 33 off 29.
The demise of the captain brought http://www.senore.com/Cricket/S-Chanderpaul-c2390 in the middle, but before he could get his eye in, he lost Munaweera, who was dismissed after hammering an innings of 45 runs off 35 deliveries. At the time of this wicket, Uva had posted 99 on the board.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CU-Jayasinghe-c1296 then joined the party, and the Uva batsmen took the score to 114 before the batting side suffered the loss of their fourth wicket with Jayasinghe perishing on a tally of six.
With 129 on the board, Chanderpaul also hit the showers, losing his wicket after amassing an innings of 23 off 18.
Having removed Chanderpaul, Nagenahira Nagas had the situation in their hands and now required a few more wickets to end the innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JDP-Oram-c1681 tried to forge some resistance against the rivals to prevent their innings from ending before 20 overs.
The two batsmen smacked some impressive shots, taking the score to 148, before Oram got run out after scoring 15 runs off seven balls.
RMS Eranga then took his second wicket of the day by dismissing Azam on two, with the batting side standing on a total of 153.
Uva ended their innings with AB McDonald unbeaten on 12 and S Prasanna on three.
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