St. Joseph’s College Colombo beat De Mazenod College Kandana by four wickets at Darley road and Thurstan College Colombo beat St. Thomas College Matara by 10 wickets at Thurstan ground. Bandarawela Central College beat St. Michael’s College Batticaloa in their Singer Cup schools under 19 cricket tournament matches which concluded on Friday.
Left arm leg spinner Dunith Wellalage took a match bag of 11 wickets for 124 runs against De Mazenod Co llege Kandana and Sandaru Dias took 8 wickets for 30 runs in the second innings against St. Thomas College Matara. Charithra Basnayake of Bandarawela Central College took 11 wickets for 43 runs against St. Michael’s College Batticaloa at Batticaloa.
Opener Santhush Gunathilake of St. Peter’s Bambalapitiya scored an unbeaten 129 runs in 214 balls with 11 boundaries and a six. Sayura Jayakody skipper of Loyola College Bopitiya scored unbeaten 178 runs against Dr. Kulasinghe MV, Udammita while Daminda Reshan of Ananda scored 100 runs against Maliyadeva Kurunegala.
23 wickets fell on day one between S. Thomas’ College Mt. Lavinia and Prince of Wales College Moratuwa at Mt. Lavinia. The Thomians were leading on first innings against the Cambrians and St. Sebastian’s College Katuneriya were leading on first innings against St. Anne’s College Kurunegala at Katuneriya. Loyola College Bopitiya were leading on first innings against Dr. Kulasinghe MV, Udammita at Udammita.
At Darley road. St. Joseph’s won by four wickets. De Mazenod: 94 in 32 overs (Pasindu Rajamunindra 28 n.o., Nandun Dilshan 27, Dunith Wellalage 6/32, Ashan Daniel 3/20) and 254 in 60.1 overs (Mithila Geeth 54, Pasindu Rajamunindra 51, Praveen Fonseka 45, Nimna Fernando 32, Mithul Senarath 29, Dunith Wellalage 5/92, Lakshan Gamage 2/42) St. Joseph’s: 254 (225/8 o/n) in 49.3 overs (Revan Kelly 68, Lakshan Gamage 67, Johanne de Zilva 42, Sachintha Ravindu 22, Praveen Fonseka 3/35, Romal Fernando 3/54, Saliya Jude 2/49) and 95/6 in 23.1 overs. (Sachintha Ravindu 28 n.o., Revan Kelly 17, Mithila Geeth 4/52)
At Thurstan. Thurstan won by 10 wickets. St. Thomas Matara: 171 in 68.5 overs (Tharusha Kavindya 52, Lahiru Dilshan 35, Nipun Lakshan 6/36, Janushka Fernando 3/43) and 101 in 39 overs (Lahiru Dilshan 34, Mihisal Amoda 29, Sandrau Dias 8/30, Ayesh Harshana 2/36) Thurstan: 247 (44/1 o/n) in 71.2 overs (Shawan Prabash 90, Nipun Lakshan 48, Yeshan Wickramarachchi 29, Imesh Viranga 20, Sachira Rashmika 3/86, Lahiru Dilshan 2/41) and 26/0 in 2.5 overs
At Batticaloa. Bandarawela Central won by 10 wickets. St. Michaels: 81 in 43.3 overs (Den Dawanan 47, Charithra Basnayake 4/13) and 90 in 32 overs (Charithra Basnayake 7/30) Bandarawela Central: 164 (149/4 o/n) in 63.3 overs (Ruchira Wijesundara 51, Janeesha Bandara 34, A. Keshan 4/14) and 8/0 in 0.5 overs
[DAY ONE SCORES]
Matches will be continued today on day two.
At Mt. Lavinia. S. Thomas’: 144 in 41.4 overs (Maneesha Rupasinghe 71, Dulith Gunarathne 27, Sandun Fernando 5/33, Kunchana Perera 3/14) and 24/3 in 12 overs (Sithara Hapuhinna 16 n.o., Kaumal Nanayakkara 2/12) Prince of Wales: 86 in 44.2 overs (Savindu Peiris 34, Vishwa Chathuranga 26, Shannon Fernando 5/36, Dulith Gunarathne 4/18)
At Ananda Mawatha. Ananda: 297 in 61.2 overs (Daminda Reshan 100, Shamal
Irshan 89 n.o., Kalana Wijesiri 27, Lahiru Hiranya 24, Brian Karunanayake 4/62, Dulaj Ranathunga 2/56, Madhuranga Naveen 2/62) Maliyadeva: 40/1 in
16 overs (Muditha Premadasa 20 n.o.)
At Bambalapitiya. St. Peter’s: 282/8 decl. in 78 overs (Santhush Gunathilake 129 n.o., Nipunaka Fonseka 42, Sulakshana Fernando 42, Dilshan de Silva 3/74, Chamindu Samarasinghe 3/94) Dharmapala: 50/2 in 20 overs (Shivan Perera 2/04)
At Katuneriya. St. Anne’s: 99 in 44.3 overs (Avishka Rupasinghe 21 n.o., Deemantha Silva 2/14, Ashen Charuka 2/18, Sheshan Udara 2/20) St. Sebastian’s Katuneriya: 113/7 in 41 overs (Kavindu Irosh 21, Ayon Heshara 9 n.o., Ravindu Dilshan 27 n.o., Pubudu Ganegama 2/09, Wanitha Wanninayake 2/14)
At Udammita. Dr. Kulasinghe MV: 121 in 29.1 overs (Dewage Hirusha 46, Dhanushka Jayarathne 28, Charithanga Lakshan 4/36, Sayura Jayakody 3/40, Radeeshan Umayanga 2/12) Loyola: 386/7 in 56.4 overs (Sayura Jayakody 178 n.o., Sanka Prasad 70, Radeeshan Umayanga 56, Shenal Charuka 27, Hashan Randika 4/26)
(YK)