St. Joseph’s regained the Rev. Fr. Peter A. Pillai Memorial Challenge Shield after two years with an easy 73 runs win over St. Peter’s in the 37th annual limited over encounter at the P. Sara Stadium yesterday.
Chathuranga Kumara, who scored 60, in action. - Pic by Ranjith Perera |
St. Joseph’s skipper Rosco Thattil winning the toss and electing to bat, made a modest score of 230 for 9 in their allotted 50 over. They were helped by half tons from Chathuranga Kumara and skipper Rosco with the pair putting on 89 runs for the fifth wicket.
St. Peter’s in their run chase were well behind the target and over that lost wickets at regular intervals which saw them being able to muster a score of only 157. The Josephians bagged three of the four individual awards that were on offer with Chathuranga Kumara (batsman), Dinal Dhambarage (bowler) and Rosco Thattil (man of the match) while Peterite Lahiru Milantha took the best fielder’s prize.
St. Joseph’s 230 for 9 in 50 overs (Chathuranga Kumara 60, Rosco Thattil 50, Sadeera Samarawickrama 30, Vidusha Jayasinghe 26: Nilochana Perera 2 for 38, Lahiru Jayaratne 2 for 50)
St. Peter’s 157 in 41 overs (Nilochana Perera 37, Shehan Fernando 28, Denham Perera 21, Lahiru Milantha 18: Dinal Dhambarage 3 for 28) -MSA |
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