Munasinghe hit five sixes and three boundaries during his 40 minute stay at the wicket while Prasanga had three hits to the ropes and one over it having faced 42 deliveries. Earlier Duleep Samaraweera made a sedate 33 with two fours.
The game was reduced to 37 overs due to overnight rain and Union Assurance scored 221 for 7. Singer in their turn could score only 142 for 8 with Rohan Soysa and Dinesh Dharmaratne top scoring with 26 each.
Chief scores:
Union Assurance 221 for 7 in 37 overs (Manjula Munasinghe 72, Manoj Prasanga 54 n.o., Dulip Samaraweera 33, Thushira de Silva 17, Upul Chandana 15, Jeevantha Kulatunge 11, Lasantha Siriwardena 2 for 30).
Singer: 142 for 8 in 37 overs (Rohan Soysa 26, Dinesh Dharmaratne 37, Lasantha Siriwardena 13, Kasun Dikkumbura 20, Dinuk Hettiarachchi 2 for 24).
Seylan Bank beat Sampath Bank
Powered by a superb century by wicket-keeper Lanka de Silva (100 off 108 balls, 4 sixes, 5 fours), Seylan Bank beat Sampath Bank rather convincingly by eight wickets in their Mercantile 'A' division cricket match played at the Sara Stadium yesterday.
De Silva and Nuwan Shiroman (69 off 93 balls, 5 fours) shared an opening stand of 176 off 194 balls to make short work of the Sampath Bank total of 190 in 45 overs.
Off-spinner Tilan Samaraweera captured 5 for 34 off 8.5 overs to restrict Sampath Bank to a score of under 200.
Sampath Bank 190 in 44.5 overs (U.C. Hathurusingha 22, S. Madanayake 41, M.S. Atapattu 59, Saman de Silva 20, T.T. Samaraweera 5 for 34, Suranjith Silva 3 for 34)
Seylan Bank 192 for 2 in 37.3 overs (S.K.L. de Silva 100, N. Shiroman 69