Finals Day Wrap
Magical Masters Lift the Cup at Harrow
Lankan Masters were crowned as Cup Winners at the Chaophya Park 7th Thailand International Cricket Sixes on their debut appearance to end the five year dominance of Lanka Lions at the event.They put on a master class to defeat last year’s Bowl winners, Mariners CC of Singapore in the premier final to take the trophy back to Colombo. It was a fitting climax to the ACST event organised in conjunction with Southerners of Bangkok. Pushpakumara picked up the man of the match award in the final.
Earlier Lamma CC of Hong Kong and the host club; Southerners fell short of reaching the final in a tight group, full of top class cricket, staged over three days at the Harrow International School.
In the second division, the Bowl was won by Hong Kong Challengers who saw off the challenge of Lanka Lions. The teams had reached the final by defeating a strong international CBB’s side. Devesh of the victorious side, was adjudged to be the star player in the final encounter.
The Plate went to Yorkshire’s Beer Battered Seadogs who were victorious against Shanghai Hot Dogs to claim the honours. Earlier the teams put pay to the hopes of the Chaophya Park All Stars, before Neil Eggar collected the player of the match medal, as well as the prestigious Spirit of Cricket Award, which forms an important quality of all ACST events Soma of Hong Kong Challengers was named as Player of the Tournament for some outstanding performances.
ACST Chairman Michael ‘Cat’ Maher was a happy man following the presentations. He said, “It’s always a pleasure to welcome so many talented cricketers to the tournament and seeing so many good people playing the game in the correct spirit.” “It only seems like yesterday that the inaugural event took place. We’ve had seven years of genuinely quality time. It was especially pleasing to see how well the rugby tens tournament running concurrently on Saturday worked, as well as welcoming our first ever Indigenous players to our cricket events” he added.
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