Sampath de Silva and Neomal Wickramasekera shone in the drawn ‘Mini Battle of the Blues’ between Royal ‘A’ and S. Thomas’ ‘A’ at Mt Lavinia yesterday.
Sampath cracked 151 while Neomal, who had a five wicket haul in the first innings, grabbed another three to end with a match bag of eight wickets and scored 36 runs as well.
Royal ‘A’ taking first lease of the wicket made a formidable 274 for 8 declared and S. Thomas’ ‘A’ resuming from their overnight score of 80 for 3 went on to make 235.
Royal ‘A’ 274 for 8 declared (Sampath de Silva 151, Supun Subasinghe 25, Shaminda Dias 24; Neomal Wickramasekera 5/51) and 177 for 6 (Hashen Ramanayake 48, Sampath de Silva 32, Chirath Devasurrendra 64 n.o; Neomal Wickramasekera 3/44, Helakamal Nanayakkara 2 /20)
S. Thomas’ ‘A’ (80/3 overnight) 235 (Sanesh de Mel 44, Navod Henakankanamage 42, Neomal Wickramasekera 36, Ridwan Rahaman 20, Geeshan de Mel 15, Shivane Perera 26 n.o; Harith Samarasinghe 3/33, Geshanth Panditharatne 3/50, Gaurav Deva 3/53)
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