The 34th ‘Battle of the Rocks’ encounter between St. Anne’s College and Maliyadeva College ended in a tame draw at the Welagedara Stadium in Kurunegala yesterday. Resuming from their overnight score of 48 for 2 Maliyadeva advanced to 224 all out in their first innings, thanks mainly to their skipper Damitha Silva who scored a [...]

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34th 'Battle of the Rocks' encounter
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The 34th ‘Battle of the Rocks’ encounter between St. Anne’s College and Maliyadeva College ended in a tame draw at the Welagedara Stadium in Kurunegala yesterday.

Resuming from their overnight score of 48 for 2 Maliyadeva advanced to 224 all out in their first innings, thanks mainly to their skipper Damitha Silva who scored a sedate 85 from 201 balls with 2 sixes and 7 fours. His fifty came in 105 balls and he added a face saving 63-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Kaveen Bandara. Besides Damith opener Brian Chandrasena was the only other batsman to gave some resistant with 30 runs.

Spinner Pubudu Ganegama was the chief wrecker with 5 for 68 from 28.2 overs for the Annites.

St. Anne’s posted a mammoth 307 for 7 in their first innings on day one,were 53 for no loss in their second innings when stumps were drawn.

Scoreboard

St. Anne’s College 1st Innings 307/7 Dec (Randeera Ranasinghe 98, Tharinda Wijesinghe 56 n.o, Kavindu Ranasinghe 56, Pubudu Ganegama 3,4 Damitha Silva 2/97, Kaveen Bandara 2/45)
Maliyadeva 1st innings (48 for 2 overnight)
Brian Chandrasena b Sinhawansa 30
Dulaj Ranatunga c Bandara b Ranasinghe 17
Damitha Silva c Chandimal b Ganegama 85
Muditha Premadasa lbw b Ganegama 20
Kaveen Bandara c and b Sinhawansa 30
Sanjeewan Priyadarshana c Bandara b Ganegama 00
Nisanjaya Hettiarachchi c Ranasinghe b Ganegama 10
Manelka Dharmadasa b Ganegama 00
Sachintha Illankoon not out 00
Extras (2w, 8nb) 10
Total (all out; 101.2 overs) 224
Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-44, 3-68, 4-73, 5-134, 6-197, 7-203, 8-219, 9-219, 10- 224
Bowling: R. Ranasinghe 1-0-4-0, W. Wanninayaka 10-3-18-0, L. de Silva 9-2-17-1, P. Ganegama 28.2-10-68-5, P. Sinhawansa 27-4-54-2, K. Ranasinghe 16-0-47-2, D. Bandara 10-4-16-0

St. Anne’s College 2nd Innings
Pubudu Ganegama not out 22
Dineth Chandimal not out 25
Extras (1b, 3lb, 2nb) 06
Total (no loss; 14 overs) 53
Bowling: M. Dharmadasa 2-0-9-0, S. Illankoon 2-1-5-0, Damitha Silva 3-0-12-0, D. Kollure 2-0-13-0, S. Priyadarshana 3-0-6-0, D. Premarathna 2-1-4-0

 

Special Awards

Best Fielder: Damitha Silva (Maliyadeva)

Best Batsman: Randeera Ranasinghe
(St. Anne’s)

Best Bowler: Pubudu Ganegama
(St. Anne’s)

Man of the Match: Pubudu Ganegama (St. Anne’s)

 

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