Tokyo Giants CC: 201 (38 overs) (Sajjad hassan, 40) 
Yokohama C. & A.C.: 137/? (28.3 overs) 
Tokyo Giants won by 27 runs (D/L) 

Shizuoka Kytes CC: 293/7 (40 0vers) (A. Harvey; 90; Kunwar Mahender; 56; G. Brady, 3/35) 
Tokyo Wombats: 107 (S. Burke, 42; T. Whisker, 32) 
Shizuoka Kytes CC won by 186 runs
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Robert-Gilles Martineau writes: 

 

But the battle still had to be won, the Wombats having the same vaunted batsmen who took them to the D-1 Final last year. 
Well, in spite of two missing starting bowlers who had not played in the KCL last year, another unknown with the name of Benjamin “Topper” Tomlinson quickly had his compatriots in the enemy camp revise some of their ideas with sheer pace and aggression. Chuck saw in horror the first ball he had finally middled with the bat go straight to Tomo who pulled out the catch of the day. It was soon payback time for Monogamist when he smartly caught Dino’s inside edge off the same bowler. The game would have been all over almost at once if Spitometer had not put down a difficult catch off an edge by last year year’s best D-1 batsman, Steve Burke. He and Kiwi Tim Whisker put 62 runs on the board before the latter fell to a good one from Kojak who had been revived to block the progress once and for all. From 70/3, the Wombats simply collapsed with 3 suicidal run outs and unconfident batting. Spitometer redeemed himself by catching Steve Burke who spooned Porno’s (Shit Takes Wickets) full toss in the deep and the Kytes were soon celebrating. 
The Division 1 promises to be a hard fought affair upon learning the victories of Wyverns and Giants against Millennium and YCAC. With Friends and Indian Engineers to complete the show, each encounter should provide plenty of drama! 
After the game, the Wombats had the grace to offer their sponsors’s wine to Ashy for Man Of The Match, to Tomo for The Play Of The Day and to Gerard Brady for The Best Wombat Of The Day. 
And then both teams (minus Kojak who was hurrying back to bed) repaired to Yoshida Soba to reminisce on their exploits of the day. But for once the Kytes did not have to listen to that ridiculous song! 

Tokyo Bay districts CC establish new records!
D-2: 
Tokyo Bay Districts CC: 309/1 (40 overs) (Saad Qureshi, 174*; Sachin Chowdhery, 107*) 
Serendib: 238/6 (37 overs) (Shiron Darshana, 58; Asanka Pallegedara, 56)  
Tokyo Bay Districts CC won by 71 runs)
Sachin Chowdhery writes:

On 23rd April at Fuji , records were made in plenty. The highest individual score in KCL as well as the highest partnership for any wicket in KCL. The match was between Tokyo Bay and Serendib. The weather was very much cloudy with occasional showers falling in between. The year 2005 has shown that Tokyo Bay has come along very well as a team under the captainship of Sachin Chowdhery, who took over from Ken Wadano. But the year 2006 and the KCL new season has started to show that Tokyo Bay is going to turn out as one of the most enterprising teams. There are players now in Tokyo Bay who can go out and do the batting at any slot and there are so many options in bowling that even the strike bowlers can be rested during the matches. This is going like the rotation policy of Greg Chappell with the present India Team.

As on the morning of 23rd April, nobody ever imagined that the records would be re-written. Tokyo Bay reached the ground at 09:00 am, but Serendib in spite of staying overnight at Fuji , reached the ground late at 11:00 am and play started at 11:15 am. Serendib lost 3 overs as result in their innings. Tokyo Bay again won the Toss and elected to Bat as the conditions were favouring the fast bowlers of Serendib and there were many chances of rains as was predicted by the weather forecast. Tokyo Bay opened the innings with M.Karthik and Saad Qureishi. Both played very well with the new ball attack and saw the new ball thru the early overs. When it looked like Karthik was looking set for a long innings, he got out LBW. This happened in the 8th over of the innings. Here walked the captain in to join Saad. Nobody ever thought that from now on the record partnership will come into being. Sachin played the best innings till date for Tokyo Bay and Saad also played the best innings of his for the team. Both took their time to adjust to the wicket and reached 117 for 1 till the half time. But the things started to fold for Serendib from here onwards as Saad and Sachin started to take over the attack to the Serendib bowlers. Next 20 overs got 192 runs for Tokyo Bay. The last 10 overs got 119 runs for Tokyo Bay. The final score made was 309 for 1. The highest score made by Tokyo Bay. Saad made 174 not out of 122 balls, while Sachin made 101 not out of 91 balls. Saad’s innings was studded with 10 sixes and 16 fours, while Sachin’s innings was studded with 4 sixes and 9 fours. Their partnership was for 287 runs and unbroken till the end. 

It was a tall task for Serendib to chase 309. But their batsmen Asanka and Shiron batted very well and made individual 50’s. But they could only muster 238 for 6 in their allotted overs. Here also bowling honours from Tokyo Bay goes to Mayank Dabral, Dinesh Shandilya and Amandeep Singh. They all bowled very well and accurately to the batsmen. Mayank finished with 8 – 0 – 27 – 0, Dinesh had the figures of 8 – 1 – 28 – 1, while Amandeep had figures of 8 – 0 – 39 – 1. Well, Tokyo Bay could have won the match with a large margin if it would not have been the case of giving away too many extras in the form of wides. In all Tokyo Bay gave away 43 wides.

It seems now that Tokyo Bay is going to take each match very seriously and each match needs to be won. In a way it was an all round effort by Tokyo Bay to clinch this match.

Dragons CC get 4 more points without breaking a sweat and Sernedib CC start their campaign on a positive note: 
D-2: 
Serendib CC: 179 (Ganga 39) 
Adore CC: 112 
Serendib CC won by 67 runs 

Dragons CC bet Paddy Foley's CC by forfeit