St. Peter’s cruise through to fourth outright win
St.Joseph's batsman Cameron Duruge who scored 73 sweeps and misses. Pic by Ranjith Perera
St. Peter’s cruised through to their fourth outright win of the ongoing Under 19 inter-school cricket season with a crushing innings and ten runs win over St. Sebastian’s in their match concluded at Bambalapitiya yesterday.
The foundation for the win for St. Peter’s was laid by their right arm pacies Shivan Perera who ended with impressive figures of 5 for 20 and Santhush Gunatilleke who grabbed four scalps to bundle out St. Sebastian’s for a paltry 79 in their first innings.
Peterites while batting were guided by Lakshina Rodrigo who made a 138 and Shalitha Fernando a 94 helping them to end day one in a strong position of 289 for 6.
The second day’s play saw St. Peter’s who had a lead of 210 runs at the end of day one declaring on their overnight score. They had St. Sebastian’s in a spot of bother at the lunch break with the score on 110 for 3. Then in the post lunch the Peterite spin trio Sachin Silva and Chathura Obeysekera (off spin) and left arm spinner Mohamed Ameen combining to share nine wickets to dismiss the Sebs ten runs short.
Maris Stella coasted to an innings and 57 runs over De Mazenod in the match which ended at Kandana yesterday. Maris Stella kept up their dominance of day one against De Mazenod in the match played at Kandana. Batsman in form Lasith Croospulle steered them on day one and on day two it was Ashan Fernando, Naveen Fernando and Dushan Guruge cracking half tons for Maris Stella. They made a formidable score of 366 for 7 declared.
This was in reply to the Mazenodians score of 195. De Mazenod batting the second time with a deficit of 171 runs put in a pathetic batting performance as they succumbed to a low score of 114 runs with Ravindu Fernando and Pasindu Ushetti doing the damage.
St. Joseph’s recorded a comfortable first inning win over Royal in a high scoring match concluded at Darley Road. St. Joseph’s in reply to Royal’s score of 291 for 9 declared made a formidable score of 397 for 9 declared.
A 97 ball knock of 134 that included 17 boundaries and half a dozen sixes by Sahan Suraweera was insufficient to prevent from S. Thomas’ gaining a first inning win in the match concluded at Ananda Mawatha.
Ananda in reply to the Thomians score of 287 for 9 declared was able to muster a score of only 243 in their first innings.
An impressive bowling return of 8 for 20 by Mohamed Hashmi was in vain as it could not prevent from Gurukula MV taking a first inning lead in the match played at Maradana. Gurukula MV taking first lease of the wicket was bowled out for 132 but they fought their way back to restrict Zahira for a score of 129.
St. Anne’s Kurunegala outclassed St Peter’s Negombo by an innings and 28 runs in the match ended at Kurunegala.
| Results: At Bambalapitiya: St. Peter’s beat St. Sebastian’s by innings and 10 runs St. Sebastian’s 79 (Shivan Perera 5 for 20, Santhush Gunatilleke 4 for 31) and 200 (Nimesh Bandara 59, Tharusha Fernando 44, Asher Warnakulasuriya 33, Nuwanidu Fernando 22: Mohamed Ameen 3 for 34, Chathura Obeysekera 3 for 37, Sachin Silva 3 for 67) St. Peter’s 289 for 6 declared (Lakshina Rodrigo 138, Shalitha Fernando 94, Ravindu Silva 21 n.o.: Asher Warnakulasuriya 2 for 36, Vinuja Ranasinghe 2 for 78) At Kandana: Maris Stella beat De Mazenod by innings and 57 runs  De Mazenod 195 (Sangeeth Deshan 63, Dilruk Anthony 39, Roshitha Seneviratne 23: Pasindu Ushetti 5 for 74, Pasindu Colombage 3 for 32) and 114 (Erosh de Silva 55: Ravindu Fernando 5 for 54, Pasindu Ushetti 3 for 33) Maris Stella (193/3 overnight) 366 for 7 declared (Ashan Fernando 85, Lasith Croospulle 81, Naveen Fernando 67, Dushan Guruge 60, Sachindu Colombage 24: Mithila Geeth 2 for 55, Ashen Fernando 2 for 63) At Darley Road: First inning win for St. Joseph’s  Royal 291 for 9 declared (Helitha Withanage 119, Lakindu Nanayakkara 39, Kavindu Madarasinghe 37, Himash Ramanayake 26, Kuhane Gunaratne 26: Kavindu Jayatissa 3 for 62, Lakhan Gamage 2 for 42) and 137 for 9 (Ronuka Jayawardena 46, Pasindu Sooriyabandara 38, Kavindu Madarasinghe 21: Dineth Jayakody 5 for 36, Harin Cooray 3 for 25) St. Joseph’s (105/1 overnight) 397 for 9 declared (Shevon Fonseka 113, Cameron Duruge 73, Dineth Jayakody 53, Nipun Sumanasinghe 41, Jehan Fernandopulle 25, Dineth Madurawala 22, Harin Cooray 33 n.o.: Manula Perera 5 for 127, Himesh Ramanayake 2 for 79) At Ananda Mawatha: First innings win for S. Thomas’  S. Thomas’ 287 for 9 declared (Thisara Hapuvinna 85, Romesh Nallaperuma 43, Anura Bulankulama 30, Manthila Wijeratne 29, Ravindu Kodituwakku 21, Dellon Peiris 19 n.o., Pavith Ratnayake 18 n.o.: Dileepa Jayalath 4 for 59, Supun Waragoda 2 for 91) and 113 for 6 (Ravindu Kodituwakku 53, Dellon Peiris 18 n.o.: Supun Waragoda 2 for 35) Ananda (28/1 overnight) 243 (Sahan Suraweera 134, Lahiru Hiranya 26 n.o.: Pavith Ratnayake 5 for 87, Dellon Peiris 2 for 28) At Maradana: First innings win for Gurukula MV Gurukula MV Kelaniya 132 (Malindu Viduranga 71, Achintha Malshan 20: Mohamed Hashmi 8 for 20) and 236 for 4 declared (Pruthuvi Rusara 65, Ravindu Udara 104 n.o.) Zahira (105/9 overnight) 129 (Mohamed Shamas 38, Mohamed Zaki 33: Sachitha Chamith 3 for 21, Malindu Viduranga 3 for 39) and 115 for 5 (Iroshan Lakruwan 38 n.o.) At Kurunegala: St. Anne’s beat St. Peter’s by innings and 28 runs  St. Peter’s Negombo 114 (Umesh Lakshan 34, Nirmal Romiltam 24, Hirusha Chamod 21: Lakshitha de Silva 6 for 29, Randeera Ranasinghe 2 for 30) and 171 (Umesh Lakshan 71, Pasindu Navod 40, Thisara Maduwantha 24: Piyumal Sinhawansa 7 for 35, Pubudu Ganegama 2 for 17) St. Anne’s Kurunegala (301/7 overnight) 313 (Vimukthi Bandara 108, Tharinda Wijesekera 60, Kavinda Ranasinghe 41, Pubudu Ganegama 33: Ruvin Salith 4 for 54, Isuru Uthpala 3 for 57) At Matara:  St. Thomas’ Matale 69 (Sajith de Silva 17, Shashika Bandara 17 n.o.: Maleesha Sadushka 6 for 9) St. Thomas’ Matara 223 for 6 (Mihisal Amoda 42, Raminda Pravinath 37, Ishan Anupriya 36: Mohamed Ismail 4 for 57) At Ja-Ela:  De La Salle Mutwal 196 for 9 declared (Ranchaka Perera 25, Ravindu Sandeepa 25, Sasindu Dulanga 63 n.o.: Malinda Perera 3 for 27, Sudeesh Priyatunga 2 for 10) Christ King Ja-Ela 113 for 7 (Udana Gamage 36: Sasindu Dulanga 3 for 25) |