Quadrangular Womens U19-T20 Nisansala, Manudi steer Sri Lanka Women’s U19 to win

A top knock of 33 by Nisansala Perera and an unbeaten 22 by Manudi Nanayakkara helped Sri Lanka Women U19 to record a comfortable six wicket win over the West Indies Women U19 in the Quadrangular Women’s U19 T20 cricket tournament played at the VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam.   

West Indies Women U19 taking first lease of the wicket made a score of 96 for 3 in their allotted overs. Later Sri Lanka Women U19 in their run chase underwent an early setback but Perera and Nethmi Senaratne helped them recover with a valuable 43 runs stand for the second wicket before Manudi Nanayakkara and Vihara Sewwandi associated in an unbroken 30 runs for the fifth wicket to guide Lankan lasses reach the target in the 16th over and to record their first win of the tournament.   

 In another match played at the same venue in the evening the India ‘B’ Women’s team record a convincing seven wicket win over India ‘A’ Women’s team.   

India ‘A’ Women team batting first made a modest score of 116 and India ‘B’ Women was steered by an unbeaten 39 ball knock of 58 by Gongadi Trisha enabling them to race to the target in the 18th over.   

The round robin match will end tomorrow with India ‘A’ Women U19 meeting Sri Lanka Women U19 and India ‘B’ Women U19 clashing with West Indies Women U19.   

Results:
At VDCA Stadium – Sri Lanka Women U19 won by six wickets
West Indies Women U19 96 for 3 in 20 overs (Zaida James 22, Shunelle Sawh 35 not out; Vihara Sewwandi 2 for 20)   
Sri Lanka Women U19 99 for 4 in 15.1 overs (Nisansala Perera 33, Manudi Nanayakkara 22 not out)  
 
At VDCA Stadium – India B Women U19 won by seven wickets
India ‘A’ Women U19 116 for 8 in 20 overs (Hurley Gala 35, Shikha Shalot 32, Hrishita Basu 15; Shabnam 2 for 14, Najila Noushad 2 for 17, Parunika Sisodia 2 for 24)   
India ‘B’ Women U19 119 for 3 in 17.4 overs (Ishwari Savkar 36, Gongadi Trisha 58 not not) -MSA