I have been absent far too long here! Time to at least summarize the tours!!!
Game 1 vs Zimbabwe
The tour got off to a great start for us with a 9 wicket win.
Zimbabwe got to a decent score of 130/6, but we chased it down comfortably with 2.4 overs to spare. Kobbekaduwa 73* (44) and Irfahan 44 (42) were the stars with the bat, while Salih took 3/29.
Game 2 vs Kenya
Another good one for us as we won by 16 runs (though it was much more comfortable than the final margin).
Kobbekaduwa 65* (48) and Kaushal 43* (37) added 94 in 12 overs to take us to 160/3. Enstein and Luvis took 2 wickets each to restrict Kenya to 144/7
Game 3 vs Bangladesh
Bad loss for us as we lost by 38 runs. Came back to haunt us in the end.
David 3/12 and Ajireen 3/10 did a great job (although the seamers compensated by giving up runs) and restricted Bangladesh to 123/7. We got off to a good start at 59/2 and from there we collapsed to their spinners and ended at 85/10. Pretty poor display from the middle order.
Game 4 vs South Africa
Another loss as we lost by 2 wickets.
Kobbekaduwa 44 (38) was the star again with bat but no one else supported and we collapsed from 79/2 to 98/10. Ajireen 3/22 was the pick of the bowlers and all the other bowlers did their job, but just wasn't enough as SA won with 5 balls to spare.
Game 5 vs UAE
This was a must win and we managed to win by 10 runs.
Nandana 50 (41), Isfahan 34 (34 ) helped us get to 149/8. David 4/29 was the pick of the bowlers and Enstein picked up 2 wickets.
The table below pretty much says it all.
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Standings
Pos Team Matches Wins Losses Ties Points NRR For Against
1 Bangladesh 5 3 2 0 12 +0.4407 620 / 98.5 557 / 95.3
2 Kenya 5 3 2 0 12 +0.3939 642 / 99.1 608 / 100.0
3 South Africa 5 3 2 0 12 +0.2415 546 / 92.5 564 / 100.0
4 Sri Lanka 5 3 2 0 12 -0.0027 623 / 97.2 635 / 99.1
5 Zimbabwe 5 3 2 0 12 -0.0852 686 / 100.0 676 / 97.2
6 UAE 5 0 5 0 0 -1.0299 575 / 100.0 652 / 96.1
5 teams won 3 games and that loss to Bangaldesh meant our NRR wasn't good enough to promote.
Players of the Tour for us were
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Batting
# Name Team Mat Inns No Runs HS Ave BF SR 0s 100 50 4s 6s
1 Tilan Kobbekaduwa Sri Lanka 3 3 2 182 73 182.00 130 140.00 0 0 2 18 4
Bowling
# Name BT Team Mat Balls Mdns Runs Wkts Best Ave ER SR 3WI 5WI
4 Ariyasiri David rws Sri Lanka 3 72 1 76 8 4-29 9.50 6.33 9.00 2 0
10 Frank Enstein rfs Sri Lanka 3 67 0 60 6 2-18 10.00 5.37 11.17 0 0
11 Maithripala Ajireen lws Sri Lanka 3 72 1 64 6 3-10 10.67 5.33 12.00 2 0