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Tame draw at Mt. Lavinia
By Bilal Yusuf
The St. Thomas’ - St. Aloysius encounter ended in a tame draw when play was called off early at Mount Lavinia yesterday due to bad light.

S.Thomas' were bundled out for 146 runs in their first innings with T.A.M. Peris stroking 42 runs for the Thomians. The pace spin combination of P.Prasad (36 for 4) and W.Radika (36 for 3) helped restrict the Thomians to this low total.

The visitors who were reeling at 51 for 5 at the end of the first day's play went on to score 119 runs, thanks to a painstaking 35 runs off 179 balls by D. Samarawickrema.

For the Thomians the main bowler was N. Adams who grabbed 4 wickets for 27 runs. The boys from Galle fell short of the Thomian first innings total due to some negative batting , where many loose balls bowled by the Thomians were played defensively.

Scores:
S. Thomas - 146 (T.A.M. Peris 42, P.G Pusagola 27; P. Prasad 36/4, W. Radika 36/3) and 55 for 1 (K,N. Imbuldeniya 35 n.o)
St. Aloysius - 119 (D. Samarawickrema 35, L.R. Kumara 18, N. Adams 27/4, S. Kularatne 31/2)

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