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Thurstan in run crawl make 180

By Shamseer Jaleel
The 41st encounter between Thurstan College and Isipathana MV which is being played for the Blacham Wijewardena Memorial Trophy got underway at the SSC Grounds yesterday.

Isipathana won the toss and invited Thurstan to bat. The Thurstanites batted for 75.1 overs to score 180.

It was negative cricket all the way by Thurstan where they went onthe defensive and lost most of their wickets.

At one stage, they were sitting pretty at 64 for 1, before a semi collapse, they lost two wickets before lunch. The Thurstan batsmen were not allowed to settle down due to some accurate bowling by Waduge and Wickremaratne, who destroyed the middle order by taking five wickete between them.

There was only one big partnership in the Thurstan innings between Perera and skipper Maharachchi for the fifth wicket, they scored 50. Skipper Maharachchi who scored half a century last week, ran himself out at 49.

Isipathana were sitting pretty at the close of play on day one. Their most promising player Dilruksha scored an unbeaten 150 which is the highest in the series. He was in fine form,before he was out for 23.

The match will be continued today. Thurstan are leading the series with five to the Isipathanians four victories.

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