St. Joseph’s College beat St. Patrick’s College Jaffna by an innings and 129 runs in their traditional fixture of the ‘Singer Trophy’ Under-19 schools cricket fixture played at Darley Road yesterday.
St. Joseph’s scored 222 for 8 and St. Patrick’s were bowled out for 41 in the first innings and following on were dismissed for 52 in the second innings as spinner Shalinda Seneviratne claimed nine wickets in the match while Dunith Wellalage took 5 for 28 runs in the second innings.
Scores:
St. Joseph’s: 222/8 dec (Dinal Anuradha 62, Lakshan Gamage 52, Shevod Daniel 29, Dunith Wellalage 28, P. Castro 3/77)
St. Patrick’s: 41 (Shalinda Seneviratne 4/12, Miranga Wickramage 6/3, Lakshan Gamage 2/15) and 52 (Shalinda Seneviratne 5/12, Dunith Wellalage 5/28) (YK)