Newcomers Baraque Travels emerge as the new TTSC Bowling Champions

Newcomers Baraque Travels (Pvt) Ltd. made a memorable entrance by winning the 20th edition of the Travel Trade Sports Club (TTSC) Bowling Championships 2023, concluded on Saturday (11) at the Strikes Cosmic Bowling Centre, Excell World, Colombo 10.
40 teams from 23 TTSC member firms participated. As per the previous tournament, the Exotic Holidays International “B” team retained the silver and the Aitken Spence Travels “A” team retained the bronze.

The 40 players were divided into four groups and given one round of bowling, with nine players simultaneously performing on the nine lanes that were available.
At the completion of the first round (40 matches), the top-scoring 18 players advanced to the second round, which was divided into two batches of nine each, once again performing simultaneously on nine lanes.
At the completion of the second round, the top-scoring nine teams advanced to the third and final round, with the following placings:
9th Place: Whittalls Boustered “B” (202)
8th Place: Walkers Tours “B” (303)
7th Place: Holiday Plan DMC (312)
6th Place: Walkers Tours “A” (336)
5th Place: ITQ Lanka “Legends” (376)
4th Place: Aitken Spence Travels “B” (393)
Bronze Winner: Aitken Spence Travels “A” (396) (Sameera Jansen 132, Sasindu Welaratne 136, Lalin Sumanasinghe 128)
Silver Winner: Exotic Holidays International “B” (404) (M. Nabeel 116, Hasitha Hettiarachchi 143, Rizwan Mannan 145)
Gold Winner: Baraque Travels (Pvt) Ltd. (429) (Hussain Khaleel 129, Fairoos Safeedeen 124, Mohamed Ihthisham 176)
Special Awards:
Men’s Player of the Tournament: Mohamed Ihthisham from Baraque Travels (Pvt) Ltd. (a grand total of 483 points from the three rounds)
Women’s Player of the Tournament: Kanchana Malluwawadu from ITQ Lanka “Legends” (227 points in the final round)
Awards were given away by TTSC officials Anil Hapugoda (President), Dilshan Gnanapragasam (VP), Lalin Sumanasinghe, and Kanishka Udawatte (Tournament Co-ordinators).                         (BM)