Kings of Jaffna with 1st in of the Tournament

Jaffna Kings recorded their first victory against Dambulla Giants in the LPL2021 with the leading Sri Lankan
right arm bowlers Wanidu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana taking 3 wickets each recording a
win by 8 wickets at the RPICS.

The Giants won the toss and choose to bat, however the opening pair along with the No.3 batsman
Niroshan Dickwella,Phill salt and Lahiru Udara was walked back to the dressing room before the end
of the first powerplay by Suranga Lakmal along with Maheesh Theekshana.

However Nuwinidu Fernando 23 runs of 25 balls along with Chamika Karunaratne 18 for 24 balls gave a lingering push to build u a decent partnership but it was Wanidu with his range of leg-breaks and googlies breaking the partnership and took the game away from the Giants limiting them to total off 110 with no
wickets to spare as Jayden Seals joined the party with 2 wickets for 23 runs.

Openers of Jaffna, Rahamanulla Gurbaz and Avishka Fernando replacing Upul Tharanga struggled a
bit with fast bowlers of the giants with Imran Tahir taking the wicket of Rahmmanulla Gurbaz for just
3 runs. However, the partnership of Tom Kohler Cadmore and Avishka Fernando lead them to the victory with
Tom scoring a brilliant 45* runs of 30 balls and Avishka Fernando with 33 runs of 27 balls was sadly caught and bowled by Nuwan Pradeep himself.

However, the partnership of Tom and Shoaib Malik took the Kings to the victory sparing themselves 8 wickets and 7.3 overs. Maheesh Theekshana was awarded the player of the match with 3 wickets for 22 runs. Thisara
Perera the winning captain said that the bowlers did an excellent job and that he is confident in having Avishka as an opener.

By Avinshu Janishka