Rain dominated the proceedings on both days of the annual 51st big match between Thurstan and Isipathana which concluded at the SSC ground yesterday. The highlight of the drawn match was the half tons made by Thurstan’s Minhaj Jaleel, skipper Kavindu Kulasekera and Thimira Jayasinghe enabling the side taking first lease of the wicket make [...]

 

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Rain dominates drawn game at SSC

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Rain dominated the proceedings on both days of the annual 51st big match between Thurstan and Isipathana which concluded at the SSC ground yesterday. The highlight of the drawn match was the half tons made by Thurstan’s Minhaj Jaleel, skipper Kavindu Kulasekera and Thimira Jayasinghe enabling the side taking first lease of the wicket make a modest score of 340 for 8 declared.

However Isipathana in their turn were made to struggle for their runs as apart from a second wicket stand of 51 between Sachin Jayasuriya and Diluka Shehan the others failed to make any impression.

They were struggling on 92 for 5 at the lunch break, they were rescued by a 53 runs stand for the sixth wicket between Kelum Bastiansz and Dhanura Deelaka to reach 136 for 6 at the tea break but unfortunately no play was possible beyond that due to bad light.

In whole the two days of play saw only 122 overs of play possible as the first day’s proceedings was called off after 55 overs due to bad weather.

 

 

 

Scoreboard

Thurstan 1st innings (206/5 overnight)
Minhaj Jalee c Deelaka b Nirmana 61
Sajith Gunatileke c Deelaka b Bastiansz 14
Kasun Abeyratne c Ushan b Dhananjaya 04
Thimira Jayasinghe c Deelaka b Dissanayake 56
Kavindu Kulaskera lbw b Soyza 57
Charana Nanayakkara c Deelaka b Dissanayake 08
Sahan Dassanayake c Deelaka b Soyza 15
Ayesh Weeraratne c Ushan b Bastiansz 09
Arjuna Gunawardena not out 03
Extras (b8, lb4, w1) 13
Total (8 wickets declared: 65.4 overs) 240
Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-67, 3-97, 4-169, 5-183, 6-216, 7-231, 8-240.
Bowling: Kelum Bastiansz 15-3-48-2, Dushan Nirmana 16-2-42-1, Avinda Soyza 12-0-51-2, Kaminda Dhananjaya 5-0-15-1, Chameera Dissanayake 15-1-61-2, Torry Thabrew 2-0-11-0.

Isipathana 1st innings
Sachin Jayasuriya c Gunatileke b Kulasekera 36
Salinda Ushan c Abeyratne b Nanayakkara 03
Diluka Shehan lbw b Wijesinghe 24
Torry Thabrew b Wijesinghe 03
Kelum Bastiansz c Kulasekera b Jaleel 44
Pramod Maduwantha c Dassanayake b Kulasekera 02
Dhanura Deelaka not out 18
Extras (b1, lb1, w4) 06
Total (6 wickets: 57.1 overs) 136
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-55, 3-59, 4-77, 5-82, 6-135.
Bowling: Charana Nanayakkara 6-3-11-1, Achintha Kalpana 6-2-18-0, Senal Wijesinghe 14.1-1-36-2, Minhaj Jaleel 4-0-12-1, Ayesh Weeraratne 9-2-24-0, Arjuna Gunawardena 5-1-16-0, Kavindu Kulasekera 8-3-7-2, Thimira Jayasinghe 5-2-10-0.

Diluka Shehan played a cautious knock of 24 for Isipathana against Thurstan - Pix by Ranjith Perera

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