Bowlers secure innings win for St. John’s
St. John’s College secured an innings a 17-run win over their traditional rival Jaffna Central College in their 114th Battle of the North big match ended at the Jaffna Central ground. The architects of their win were left-arm spinners A. Saraan and Y. Vithushan and right arm paceman T. Dinoshan.
Saraan ended with impressive figures of 5 for 32 in 12 overs while Vithushan and Dinoshan shared five wickets between them to bowl out the Centralites for 124 runs, after resuming their second innings on 51 for 3.
The hosts needed 141 runs to avoid an innings defeat and despite a stand of 82 runs for the fourth wicket between M. Sansajan and B. Inthujan, they crashed to an innings defeat with the remaining six wickets managing just 16 runs. Inthujan was the top score for Centralites, hitting 56 with five boundaries and three sixes.
The win for the Johnians was the 37th in the series as against to the 28 by the Centralites.
The Johnians swept the individual awards, winning five of the six that were on offer with A. Saraan taking two — the best bowler and man-of-the-match.
K. Sabesan was named best fielder while T. Dinoshan was adjudged best allrounder followed by S. Piranavan as best wicketkeeper. Centralites’ B. Inthujan won the best batsman award.
Scoreboard
Jaffna Central 1st innings 150 (V. Viyaskanth 30, S. Saranjan 25, M. Sansajan 20, A. Nithusan 20: K. Karisan 3/10, V. Vithusan 2/42)
St. John’s 1st innings 291 (A. Sukethan 49, T. Dinoshan 44, K. Sabesan 43, T. Vinojan 27, A. Abishek 25, S. Piranavan 18, N. Sowmiyan 16, A. Saraan 24n.o.: T. Vithushan 5/79, V. Viyaskantha 3/80)
Jaffna Central 2nd innings (51/3 overnight)
V. Kavitharashan lbw b Dinoshan 4
K. Iyalarasan b Dinoshan 0
M. Sansajan c Somiyan b Saraan 27
S. Sarangan c Abishek b Saraan 16
B. Inthujan c Thanojan b Vithushan 56
V. Viyaskanth c Dinoshan b Saraan 2
A. Nithushan c Dinoshan b Saraan 7
R. Rajclinton c Dinoshan b Vithushan 2
P.A. Kajan c Kajan b Vithushan 2
N. Thivakaran c Sabesan b Saraan 0
T. Vithushan not out 0
Extras (b3, lb1, nb4) 8
Total (all out: 45.4 overs) 124
Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-6, 3-26, 4-108, 5-111, 6-115, 7-120, 8-123, 9-123
Bowling: T. Dinoshan 8-2-13-2, A. Abishek 10-7-14-0, A. Saraan 12-1-32-5, Y. Vithushan 8.4-1-21-3, T. Vinojan 4-1-29-0, K. Karisan 3-0-11-0