Rasanjana shines in Nalanda’s innings win
St. Benedict's Pasan Suwahas goes for a cover drive during his innings of 97 against St. Anne's - Pic by Ranjith Perera
Lakshitha Rasanjana Manasinghe shone with an allround performance in Nalanda’s innings and 159 runs win against Wesley in the Under-19 Inter-School cricket encounter concluded at the Campbell Park yesterday.
Lakshitha first shone with an unbeaten ton when Nalanda batting first to help the side amass a score of 315 for 6 declared. Then he had Wesley struggling on 8 for 4 in their turn when play ended on day one,
The second day’s play saw Lakshitha ending with a four wicket and was supported by Chamindu Wijesinghe who also bagged four scalps to send Wesley reeling to a score of 107.
Made to follow on with a deficit of 208 runs Wesley was tormented by Lakshitha again who along with Kavish Madurapperuma combined to skittle out Wesley for just 49 runs in their second inning.
In fact Wesley’s batting in both the innings lasted just 70.2 overs in contrast the Nalanda who made their score of 315 in 79 overs.
Maris Stella dominated proceedings against St Peter’s on the day two in their drawn match which concluded at Bambalapitiya yesterday. Ravindu Fernando who ended with a six-wicket haul and Pasindu Ushetti led Maris Stella’s fight back as the duo combined to bowl out the home team for 67 runs.
At Kotahena, Pasan Suwahas was unfortunate to miss out on a ton by three runs but he helped St. Benedict’s score of 306 for 7 declared in reply to St. Anne’s Kurunegala’s score of 101 at Kotahena.
Kalutara MV secured an innings and 18 runs win over Sri Devananda MV Ambalangoda in the match concluded at Kalutara.
| Results | |
Nalanda 315 for 6 declared (Chamindu Wijesinghe 54, Ravin de Silva 50, Jayod Kaldera 35, Dilhara Polgampola 33, Lakshitha Rasanjana 100 n.o.: Shenal Dangalla 2 for 24, Thenuka Perera 2 for 76)
St. Peter’s 304 for 6 declared (Santhush Gunatilleke 104, Ranmith Jayasena 56, Bhanuka de Silva 49, Rishika Santhush 21, Shanon Fernando 21 n.o.: Pasindu Ushetti 4 for 72) and 67 (Kanishka Maduwantha 21: Ravindu Fernando 6 for 34, Pasindu Ushetti 3 for 31)
St. Anne’s Kurunegala 191 (Kavindu Ekanayake 32, Kavindu Ranasinghe 88 n.o.: Malinda Perera 3 for 28, Kaveesha Jayatilleke 3 for 57, Sanoj Perera 2 for 23) and 28 for 1 (Vistha Perera 18 n.o.)
Kalutara MV 292 for 7 declared (Visara Sasmitha 106, Pabod Wanigasinghe 100 n.o.: Chamindu Anushka 4 for 67)
Loyala Negombo 293 (Piyumal Fonseka 129, Sudeera de Soysa 39, Suneth Piyumantha 24: Heshan Jayasekera 8 for 77) and 105 for 6 (Hansaja Hiruna 21, Lakshitha Dilshan 20, Stefan Surindu 26 n.o.: Heshan Jayasekera 3 for 41, Chathum Ranasinghe 2 for 36)
Rahula Matara 213 for 9 (Bagya Ediriweera 44, Sahan Bandara 124 n.o: Kaveesh Sathsara 5 for 35)
Sri Pangnananda MMV Raddoluwa 143 (Hansa Gunawardena 59, Sachintha Kumaratunga 20: Buddhi Madushan 5 for 52, Amodya Heshan 3 for 15) |