Shammu guides Ananda
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Mevan Porage of Nalanda in action against Dharmapala - Pic by Ranjith Perera
Shammu Ashan of Ananda College brought a lightening start for the 17th Henry Steele Olcott Memorial Cricket tournament at the Bloomfield Grounds yesterday when he slammed a lusty 54 to guide Ananda College to win the Olcott Schools Under-19 cricket tournament defeating Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda. At the Old Boys tournament the day’s highest score (109) was posted by Dharmasoka College and Ajith Ekanayake from Maliyadeva College captured 3 for 12 to be the highest wicket taker so far. At the end of the second day yesterday from Group ‘A’ Dharmasoka and Rahula collected two points each while Dharmapala, Maliyadeva and Mahinda collected two points each. The tournament will be continued today commencing at 8.30am.
Chief Scores:
- Dharmasoka 67; Ananda 68 for 1 wicket.
Results at a glance of the Old Boys Tournament
matches played yesterday:
- Dharmasoka vs. Nalanda – Match declared null and void
- Ananda vs. Dharmapala – Match declared null and void
- Rahula vs. Dharmaraja – Rahula won by 7 wkts
Dharmaraja 65/6, Rahula 69/3
- Maliyadeva vs. Mahinda – Mahinda won by 19 runs
Mahinda 76/7; Maliyadeva 58/7
- Dharmasoka vs. Rahula – Dharmasoka won by 9 runs
Dharmasoka 109/3; Rahula 100
- Ananda vs. Maliyadeva – Maliyadeva won by 9wkts
Ananda 47; Maliyadeva 49/1