Lyceum Wattala, Panadura, Nugegoda and Asian IS enter semis
The International Schools U19 limited over tournament has reached the last stages with the preliminary round matches and the quarter-finals being completed. The tournament saw the participation of 15 teams which were divided into four groups with four teams in each group with Colombo International School Kandy pulling out.
The completion of the preliminary round matches saw three schools from Lyceum International coming out on top. They were Lyceum Wattala (Group A), Lyceum Panadura (Group B) and Lyceum Nugegoda (Group D) while Gateway College Colombo was the top team in Group C.
Three teams, Lyceum Wattala, Gateway Colombo and Lyceum Nugegoda ended their preliminary round unbeaten. - MSA
Results Quarter-Finals:
At Health Grounds – Lyceum IS Nugegoda by 114 runs
Lyceum Nugegoda 167 in 29.5 overs (Shahina Walpola 41, Semindu Bandara 29, Nipuna Hettiarachchi 24: Stephan de Silva 4 for 33, Senuka Dharmakeerthi 2 for 32, Kavindu Subasinghe 2 for 34)
British School Colombo 53 in 21.4 overs (Nipuna Hettiarachchi 2 for 3, Shihan Walpola 2 for 10, Kulitha Malkine 2 for 22)
At Health Grounds – Asian IS by 28 runs
AIS Colombo 159 for 7 in 30 overs (Thiwanka Anthony 38, Shefaz Ahamed 37, Jach Udeshi 32: Yathidu Arangala 3 for 45, Haerron Ragulan 2 for 20)
Gateway Colombo 131 in 28.4 overs (Asker Amurdeen 26, Udam Munasinghe 20: Sanik Senanayake 4 for 22, Harshan Yogendra 2 for 20, Jach Udeshi 2 for 25)
At Shalika – Lyceum IS Wattala by 135 runs
Lyceum Wattala 223 for 9 in 30 overs (Sharmigan Sridaran 70, Shabiq Ishthariq 62, Chandima Yasasiri 41: Visitha Gihan 5 for 43, Dihan Samarasinghe 3 for 42)
Gateway Kandy 88 in 24 overs (Krishantha Amarasooriya 27: Abinesh Ravichandran 2 for 6, Gihan de Zoysa 2 for 6, Pavitha Lahabaduge 2 for 11)
At Shalika – Lyceum IS Panadura by 70 runs
Lyceum Panadura 161 in 30 overs (Shiran Liyanage 63: Malinda Prashan 4 for 25, Senushka Fernando 3 for 45)
Leeds IS Panadura 91 in 21.2 overs (Vibhuda de Soysa 27: Isuru Perera 4 for 21)