Jaffna Bulls Sealed South Eastern into 50 Runs

Saturday, 09 June 2018 |By Gobinath Sivarajah

Seoul — The University of Jaffna has shown their colours on their very first match, defeated the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka by 162 runs.

University of Jaffna Cricket Team

Annual Inter university 50 overs cricket tournament started today. The first match was between University of Jaffna and South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, held in the Eastern University of Sri Lanka playground. University of Jaffna Cricket is already strong in their batting and bowling line-up, have titled many championships in the past years. An experienced all-rounder Jananthan leads Jaffna Bulls this year.

In today’s match, Jaffna Bulls won the toss and elected to bat first. In the first innings of the game, Jaffna Bulls scored 212 at the end of 50 overs with the loss of 8 wickets. Jaffna Bull’s captained played a very sensible game for his team, scored 35 until the last ball of the innings. On behalf of Jaffna Bull, Kapilraj, Dhanujan and Nitharsan scored 34, 28, and 26, respectively.

Winning Selfie

In the second inning of the game, Jaffna bulls controlled South Eastern Boys into just 50 runs, at the end of the 28 over. Former caption and all-round star player of Jaffna Bulls Shiran Kurukulasooriye attacked the South Eastern Boys from the beginning of the game and picked three wickets. Thuvaraseelan and Subendran picked two each on their hands; Lohatheeswar, Jananthan and Senthooran sent one player each from South Easters Boys to the pavilion back to back, finished the game early. Overall, Jaffna Bull showed their great team effort, sealed the first game of the Inter-University Cricket tournament — 2018.

Jaffna Bulls will play their second match against the University of Moratuwa in their home ground on 16, June 2018. Both teams are very strong, Jaffna Bulls will take this opportunity to show their colors in their home this time.