St. Benedict’s home for tea — crush Lumbini
St.Benedicts bowler Reshan Kavisha who ripped through the Lumbini batting in action. Pic by Amila Gamage
St. Benedict’s crushed Lumbini MV by an innings and 58 runs in the Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Kotahena yesterday with the match being over just after the tea break.
The architect of St. Benedict’s win was right arm spinner Kaveesha Jayatilleke who ended with impressive figures of 5 for 23 to bundle out Lumbini MV. They were all out for 94 and 96 in their two innings.
De Mazenod managed to overhaul St Peter’s first inning score to gain a first inning win in the match played at Bambalapitiya. The late order batting of Mazenodians helped them make them make a score of 164 in reply to St. Peter’s score of 143.
Royal too had to be satisfied with a first inning win over St. Sebastian’s in the match played at Reid Avenue. Royal taking first lease on day one made a modest score of 227 and St. Sebastian’s resuming on their overnight score of 70 for 6 was able to muster a score of only 152.
Sajith Sameera and Murad Nazeer shared eight wickets between them helping Zahira make a fight back against Dharmaraja on day two in the match played at Maradana which helped them record a first inning win.
Dharmaraja in reply Zahira’s 204 resuming on their overnight score of 106 for 4 made 199.
Siri Piyaratana MMV Padukka coasted to a convincing ten wicket win over St Mary’s Chilaw in the match concluded at Padukka yesterday. In fact Siri Piyaratana MMV was in line to record an early outright when played ended on day one.
St. Mary’s came into game on day two in a bad position of 33 for 6 needing another 26 runs to avoid an innings defeat. They succeeded to achieve that making a score of 96 which left Siri Piyaratana MMV a simple run chase of 38 runs which they needed only six overs.
In the two matches that got underway yesterday saw Asoka MV taking first lease of the wicket making a formidable score of 289 and then having Henegama Central struggling on 21 for 6 at Koswatte while Henry Olcott MV has already taken a first inning lead over Ananda Sastralaya Matugama at Kolonnawa.
Results:
-  At Kotahena – St Benedict’s won by innings
Lumbini MV 94 (Kanishka Maduwantha 27: Rehan Kavishka 7 for 60, Maheesh Theekshana 2 for 5) and 96 (Thanuka Dabare 22: Kaveesha Jayatileke 5 for 23)
St. Benedict’s (161/4 overnight) 248 for 8 declared (Maheesh Theekshana 61, Dinitha Basnayake 54, Dulantha Lewis 51, Kaveesha Jayatileke 24, Rehan Kavishka 19 n.o.: Kanishka Maduwantha 5 for 69)
-  At Bambalapitiya – First inning win for De Mazenod
St. Peter’s 143 (Ranmith Jayasena 23, Santhush Gunatileke 65 n.o.: Ashen Fernando 3 for 28, Sashan Fernando 2 for 13) and 275 for 8 (Manelka de Silva 169, Shalith Fernando 37, Ranmith Jayasena 26, Santhush Gunatileke 21: Mithila Geeth 2 for 32, Deshan Fernando 2 for 63)
De Mazenod (94/5 overnight) 164 (Deshan Fernando 41, Sashan Fernando 39, Krishan Sanjula 27, Mithila Geeth 20 n.o.: Mohamed Ameen 4 for 35, Rabindu Silva 2 for 25, Chathura Obeysekera 2 for 35)
-  At Reid Avenue – First inning win for Royal
Royal 227 (Lakindu Nanayakkara 50, Kavindu Wijeratne 46, Himesh Ramanayake 26, Ronuka Jayawardena 22: Praveen Jayawickrama 4 for 50, Nimesh Bandara 4 for 56) and 264 (Thivindu Senaratne 94, Helitha Vithanage 61: Praveen Jayawickrama 3 for 80, Avishka Fernando 2 for 32, Nuwanindu Fernando 2 for 43)
St. Sebastian’s (106/8 overnight) 152 (Asher Warnakulasuriya 40, Avishka Fernando 25: Helitha Vithanage 3 for 25, Gauthama Ranasinghe 2 for 32, Himesh Ramanayake 2 for 38)
-  At Maradana – First inning win for Zahira
Zahira 204 (Sajith Sameera 78, Mohamed Shamaz 65, Nalinda Surasinghe 24: Rukmal Dissanayake 4 for 69, Upendra Warnakulasekera 2 for 34, Gihan Withana 2 for 35) and 275 for 9 (Mohamed Dilhan 68, Sajith Sameera 53, Mohamed Najath 120 n.o.: Rukmal Dissanayake 5 for 83)
Dharmaraja (106/4 overnight) 199 (Niwantha Herath 57, Deshan Gunasinghe 34, Udantha Samarakoon 28: Sajith Sameera 5 for 71, Ruwan Nazeer 3 for 46)
-  At Padukka – Siri Piyaratana MMV won by ten wickets
St. Mary’s Chilaw 94 (Dilushan Jayasanka 41: Sampath Wijesuriya 6 for 14) and (33/6 overnight) 96 (Tharuka Appuhamy 26: Ranindu Keshan 5 for 30, Sampath Wijesuriya 4 for 43)
Siri Piyarathana MMV Padukka 153 (Sampath Wijesuriya 38, Kavindu Ishwara 25: Chamuditha Arunasiri 6 for 50) and 40 for 0 (Goshitha Sajitha 26 n.o.)
- Â At Koswatte
Asoka MV Colombo 289 (Ishara Gimhan 95, Sahath Akmina 48: Waruna Vishwajith 4 for 100)
Henegama Central 21 for 6 (Shehan Priyamal 3 for 12, Richel Fernando 2 for 10)
- Â At Kolonnawa
Henry Olcott MV Kolonnawa 144 (Madusanka Fernando 60, Malindu Sandakelum 40: Thushan Sanjula 4 for 27, Prasad Chathuranga 3 for 30, Arjuna Ranaweera 3 for 37) and 6 for 0
Ananda Sastralaya Matugama 77 (Madusanka Almeida 8 for 47)