Janaka lifts Garvey Lions to big victory in Ramadan Cup

Janakaturned in a stellar all-round display to propel Garvey Lions to a huge77-run crushing win over Redco in the Ramadan Cup Twenty20 CricketTournament, organised by the Qatar Cricket Association. At theAsian Town Cricket Stadium, Garvey Lions rode Janaka’s fiery batting topost a mammoth 186 for six. Rajeewa (five for 19) and Janaka took eightwickets between them to send the rivals crashing to the big defeat.Janakadominated the early parts of the B and C Divisions category match andput together a 66-run stand for the second wicket with Nuwan, whocontributed 25 with a six and two fours.Janaka continued to collectruns at a brisk pace and was the fifth player at 174 after hammeringfive sixes and nine boundaries in his 57-ball knock. He was a bitunfortunate not to cap his effort with a hundred, falling short by fiveruns.Later, Redco failed to come up with a matching reply underintense pressure and collapsed at 109 in 16 overs. Rajeewa snapped fivewickets in his four-over spell, while Janaka claimed three for 22.Raweed was the main scorer with 35, including three sixes and as manyboundaries. Saif and Rasmy made 19 and 16, respectively.In anothermatch, Amarnath put up a brave fightback with Munir and engineered athrilling QIE’s two-wicket last-over victory against Al Khor Community.Chasing a modest 108-run target, QIE were struggling at eight down for78. Amarnath and Munir forged an unbroken 30-run partnership to pull offthe victory with four balls to spare.Munir made an unbeaten 24 with two fours, Amarnath smashed four boundaries in his 16-ball 19 not out.Earlier,Amarnath grabbed three wickets to restrict the rivals. Mazhar had onefor 18. Fawaz and Sohel did the bulk of scoring with 35 and 25,respectively.Brief scoresB & C DivisionsGarvey Lions beat Redco by 77 runsGarvey Lions: 186 for six (Janaka 95 in 57 balls, Nuwan 25 in 19 balls, Geethan 17 in 17 balls; A Sattar 2/35, Faheem 2/33)Redco: 109 in 16 overs (Raweed 35 in 19 balls, Saif 18 in 19 balls, Rasmy 16 in 10 balls; Rajeewa 5/19, Janaka 3/22)Man of the match: Janaka (Garvey Lions)QIE beat Al Khor Community by two wicketsAl Khor Community: 107 for seven (Fawaz 35 in 29 balls, Sohel 25 in 36 balls; Amarnath 3/20)QIE: 108 for 8 in 17.2 overs (Munir 24 not out in 27 balls, Amarnath 19 in 16  balls; Naeem 3/24, Kannan 2/19, Khurram 2/19)