Nimnaka stars in St. Anthony’s win
By Shamzeer Jaleel
View(s): Spinner Nimnaka Jayathilake fashioned a comfortable innings an 93-run win for St Anthony’s College over Kingswood College in their U-19 inter-school cricket encounter which concluded at Katugastota.
Nimnaka collected a match bag of 9 for 57, including a 6 for 14 runs in the second innings to bowl out Kingswood in their second essay for 61.
Chief scores:
- St. Anthony’s 278 in 69.1 overs (W M Virendra 51, Sasith Hirudika 51, Mohamed Kamil 38; B W K Kevin 4 for 74, M N M Weerasekara 3 for 69
- Kingswood 124 in 44.4 overs (M Ranasinghe 30, Y B Abeykoon 20, Nimnaka Jayathilaka 3 for 43,Chamod Lakshan 2 for 3) and 61 all out in 23.3 overs (M Ranasinghe 14, Nimnaka Jayathilaka 6 for 14 Sasith Hirudika 4 for 32)
Trinity on first innings
- Trinity 283 in 78 overs (Ranuda Somarathne 95, Shen Gunathilaka 68, Dinitha Siriwardana 64; Shalinda Senevirathne 3 for 82, Dunith Wellalage 3 for 44, Mihiranga Wickramage 3 for 59)
- St. Joseph’s 161 and 215 for 3 in 48 overs (Johanna De Silva 59, Dineth Jayakody 59 not out, Dunith Wellage 53 not out, Shiran Fonseka 34; Pasan Ganegoda 2 for 22)