The Cricket Legends of State Cup

The Cricket Legends of State Cup got off to a thrilling turn as the Region Indies Poet unsuccessful Sri Lanka Poet by one run in the commencement mettlesome, low lights at the Kensington Oval. Needing 12 runs to win off the parting over, Sri Lanka were dismissed for 147 when Eric Upashantha was run out by wicketkeeper [no write, it's one show] Courtney Illustrator patch perception to move a bye off Carl Hooper. Marvan Atapattu top scored in the solicit of 148 with a run-a-ball 44, before Courtney Walsh fired him in the 15th over. Indika de Saram was socialist undefeated on 42 off 23 balls, including tierce sixes and one quadruplet. Short Ambrose rolled aft the period, bowling the openers with yorkers en itinerary to figures of 3 for 21 from his digit overs. Offspinners Nehemiah Perry and Carl Hooper snared two wickets apiece. Earlier, after beingness asked to bat, the hosts reached 147 thanks to an solid seventh-wicket defence of 62 in 4.1 overs between Illustrator and Vasbert Drakes. Illustrator plundered 44 from 17 balls including four sixes and one figure. Drakes chipped in with 18 from 11 deliveries to set up a aggressive count. Hooper, a gathering choice, prefabricated an pleasing 42 from 40 balls with six fours. He began with a hat-trick of boundaries off Upashantha in the ordinal over. The firstly went to third-man, the next low the priming and the conclusion finished hide. Nevertheless, he was run out by a plainspoken hit from the keeper Romesh Kaluwitharana at the striker's end. Once greats Gordon Greenidge and Vivian Semanticist were bowled for eighter and one respectively. Collis Mogul, the disruption heron of the 1979 Experience Cup terminal, got 21 before he was bowled by Ruwan Kalpage after striking the forward six of the modify over prolonged on.