St. Joseph’s dominate proceedings
Josephian spinner Dinith Kannangara in action - Pic by Ranjith Perera
St. Joseph’s dominated proceedings against S. Thomas’ in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter played at Darley which ended yesterday in a first inning win for the Josephians.
The keen tussle between St. Sebastian’s and St. Anthony’s Katugastota at Moratuwa too ended in a first inning win for St. Anthony’s. The opening day’s play saw St. Anthony’s helped by a knock of 118 by Mohamed Alfer making 276.
Right arm spinner Supun Waragoda’s impressive figures of 7 for 24 and a hat-trick by pacie Kavishka Anjula helped Ananda dominate proceedings over St. Benedict’s in the match played at Kotahena but in the end Ananda had to satisfied with a first inning win.
St. Aloysius Galle resuming on their overnight score of 105 for 3 piled up a score of 335 for 9 declared in reply to DSS’s score of 193 to record an easy first inning win in the match conclude at Galle yesterday.
St. Peter’s taking first lease of the wicket guided by a knock of 106 by Anishka Perera and half tons by Ranmith Jayasena and Vinu Mohotti made a formidable score of 386 for 7 declared against Prince of Wales who ended the day on 38 for 3 in the match which began at Moratuwa yesterday.
Twin half tons by Jeni Flemin Sebamalapillai who scored identical knocks of 56 in both the innings and five wicket hauls by Ghanamirthan Arulanantham and Jathushan Vasanthan paved the way for St. John’s Jaffna to record a three wicket win over Carey in the match played at St. John’s ground in Jaffna.
At Darley Road: Match drawn
St. Joseph’s 287 for 8 declared (Nipun Samarasinghe 93, Shevon Fonseka 60, Kevin Cortling 33, Vimukthi Peiris 33, Charuka Ullandupitiya 20: Kanishka Perera 2 for 24, Ravindu Kodituwakku 2 for 33, Pavith Ratnayake 2 for 50) and 206 for 5 at close (Revan Kelly 48, Sandaruwan Rodrigo 46, Shevon Fonseka 32, Vimukthi Peiris 32 n.o.: Ravindu Tillekeratne 3 for 53)
S. Thomas’ (54/0 overnight) 216 for 8 declared (Ravindu Kodituwakku 38, Yohan Mendis 34, Sachitha Jayatilleke 27, Kanishka Perera 22, Yohan Perera 32 n.o.: Malshan Rodrigo 2 for 41, Harin Cooray 2 for 43, Charuka Ullandupitiya 2 for 46)
At Moratuwa: Match drawn
St. Anthony’s Katugastota 276 (Mohamed Alfer 118, Kanishka Uggalpaya 49, Sunera Jayasinghe 34, Dion Stauter 26: Praveen Jayawickrama 4 for 89, Tharusha Fernando 2 for 61) and 118 (Kavindu Yapabandara 35: Praveen Jayawardena 6 for 47)
St. Sebastian’s (87/1 overnight) 231 (Sandaruwan Fernando 47, Praveen Perera 37, Rushan Silva 27: Sandaruwan Dharmaratne 5 for 87, Kavindu Yapabandara 4 for 66) and 50 for 2 at close (Mishen Silva 29)
At Kotahena: Match drawn
St. Benedict’s 97 (Pasindu Dilshan 29: Supun Waragoda 7 for 24, Kanishka Anjula 3 for 11) and 195 for 3 at close (Thulina Dilshan 135, Ashen Silva 44)
Ananda (125/4overnight) 219 (Rahal Avishka 44, Kalana Perera 40, Kanishka Anjula 32: Geethal Fernando 5 for 54, Poorna Charuka 2 for 45)
At Galle: Match drawn
DSS 193 (Torin Pitigala 99, Deemantha Kaushalya 26: Prabodha Maduwantha 3 for 36, Ashen Bandara 2 for 13, Sajith Sankalpa 2 for 17) and 60 for 3 at close
St. Aloysius Galle (105/3 overnight) 335 for 9 declared (Ashen Bandara 110, Navindu Nirmal 108 n.o.: Pasindu Adithya 2 for 24, Sachin Bandara 2 for 101)
At Moratuwa:
St. Peter’s 386 for 7 declared (Anishka Perera 106, Ranmith Jayasena 78, Hashan Wanasekera 47, Vinu Mohotti 57 n.o.: Sanjaya Fernando 2 for 52, Ravindu Janith 2 for 120) Prince of Wales 38 for 3 at stumps
At Jaffna: St. John’s Jaffna beat Carey by 3 wickets
Carey 75 (Thusanga Mirando 31, Meleesha Deshapriya 20: Ghanamirthan Arulanantham 5 for 18, Jathushan Vasanthan 3 for 21, Kapilraj Kanagaratnam 2 for 10) and 207 (Mark Wickramasinghe 60, Chalitha Tillekeratne 48, Sachin Godamanne 25, Shehan Nilaptha 22 n..: Jathushan Vasanthan 5 for 60, Nilojan Mahalingam 2 for 8, Ghanamirthan Arulanantham 2 for 89)
St. John’s Jaffna 145 (Jeni Flemin Sebamalapillai 56, Thevaprashanth Chandramohan 29, Jathushan Vasanthan 22: Shehan Nilaptha 3 for 23, Seminith Silva 3 for 46, Ranul Deelaka 2 for 37) and 141 for 7 (Jeni Flemin Sebamalapillai 56, Jathushan Vasanthan 29, Ghanamirthan Arulanantham 20: Meleesha Deshapriya 3 for 31, Seminith Silva 3 for 39) – MSA
| Duvindu and Raveen see Trinitians through in a thriller In one of the best school matches in Kandy in recent times, Trinity beat Dharmaraja by three wickets at Lake, View, yesterday. Three fourths of the game belonged to Trinity. However, shell shocked Dharmaraja fought it out thrillingly and just failed. Had they possessed another effective bowler other than Pupulewatte, who had a math-bag of 11-116, they could have pulled it off. Trinity’s heroes were the spin duo of Duvindu Tillekeratne (9 for 74) and Raveen Sayer (8 for 135). Sayer’s 66 in the first innings was of pivotal importance. Dharmaraja 119 in 26.4 overs (Dishan Gunasinghe 50, Nivantha Herath 15, Asmitha Rajapakse 17, Duvindu Tillekeratne 4 for 23, Raveen Sayer 3 for 21, Thisaru Dilshan 2 for 37) and 219 in 76.1 overs (Ruchira Pupulewatte 53, Nivantha Herath 40, Gihan Vitharana 36, Shehan Vitharana 36; Raveen Sayer 5 for 114, Duvindu Tillekeratne 5 for 51) Trinity 220 in 50 overs (Raveen Sayer 66, S. Sanogeeth 35, Nushan Weerasinghe 22, Shavindu Amerasinghe 29, Naveen Ekanayake 25; Ruchira Pupulewatte 6 for 49, Asmitha Rajapakse 2 for 27) and 120 for 7 in 23.5 overs at close (Nushan Weerasinghe 35, Sachira Gamindu 21 n.o, Thasika Dodanwela 19 n.o, Ruchira Pupulewatte 6 for 67) By Aubrey Kuruppu |