Galle to defend title against high riding Dambulla

4th National Super League tournament final at SSC tomorrow

- BY SA'ADI THAWFEEQ

FOLLOWING five weekends of hotly contested cricket the National Super League 4-day tournament has come to the stage where unbeaten Galle will defend their title against high riding Dambulla in the final which will take place at the SSC grounds commencing tomorrow.

A lot of Galle's success has been attributed to having a good combination of experience and youth, a balanced batting and bowling line-up and a good environment within the team where every player appreciates the other's performance.

"Individually Captain Ramesh Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal have performed and five players who left with the Sri Lanka 'A' team have also contributed immensely," said Galle head coach Dharshana Gamage.

"Dilshan Madushanka, Milan Rathnayake, Pasindu Sooriybandara, Sadeera Samarawickrama and Dilum Sudeera all contributed towards us reaching the final before they left. Apart from them (Dunith) Wellalage has been performing consistently throughout the tournament."

"It is a big loss because we don't have their experience to replace them. However, we managed to test out a few other players knowing that we would at some point lose some of our players to the 'A' team. To a great extent the players we've tried out have secured their places in the team. We have more or less replaced 90 percent. I have the confidence that they will do well."