Rain ensure tame draws
With rain hampering majority of proceedings, two traditional Inter-School two-day cricket games ended in tame draws, while Sri Devananda took the upper hand at stumps on the first day against Devapathiraja Rathgama in their game began yesterday.
St. Joseph’s travelled to Reid Avenue to take on Royal, who earned honours of their drawn game with the only three half centuries coming from the hosting side’s Uvindu Weerasekara, Dasis Manchanayake and Sineth Jayawardena, while Shenuk Serasinghe claimed a five-for for the visitors. Despite posting a low total after electing to bat, the Josephians had the guts to declare their innings at 131-8 while in reply Royal were 240-7 when the game ended.
At Karandeniya, hosts Karandeniya Central took the upper hand in their drawn encounter against minnows All Saints, Galle, as Tharindu Ameesha ended with a match bag of seven wickets in addition to his half century for the visitors. Electing to bat, Karandeniya Central were bowled out by their opponents on both occasions — for 241 and 150, with Savindu Umesh being the only batsman to score a half century from both innings. All Saints were bowled out at exactly 100, with Ameesha top scored with 50.
Devapathiraja elected to bat against Sri Devananda at Ambalangoda, only to be bowled out for 170, despite a fighting knocks from Pawan Sandesh (68) and Tharindu Rukshan (42n.o.). Sri Devananda were strongly poised at 146-3 with Kanchana de Livera remaining unbeaten on 66 when stumps were drawn on the first day.
| At Reid Avenue: Match drawn
St. Joseph’s 131 for 8 decl (50.2) (Hiran Jayasundara 30, Mithira Thenura 26, Muditha Lakshan 22, Naren Muralidaran 20, Dan Poddiwela 3/22, Sadesh Ramanayake 2/33, Gishan Balasooriya 2/37) Royal 240 for 7 (67) at close (Uvindu Weerasekara 57, Dasis Manchanayake 54n.o., Sineth Jayawardena 53, Ashen Gamage 37, Shenuk Serasinghe 5/63) At Karandeniya: Match drawn Karandeniya Central 241 all out (53) (Shavindu Umesh 52, Deshani Shashintha 45, Dinuka Dananjaya 31, Tharusha Dulanjana 26, Thejan Yasas 4/51, Mihin Manvidu 3/68, Tharindu Ameesha 2/57) and 150 all out (40.5) at close (Ishan Pushpika 41, Shavindu Umesh 35, Oshan Nethsara 22, Tharindu Ameesha 5/44, Mihin Manvidu 2/22) All Saints Galle 100 all out (44.3) (Tharindu Ameesha 50, Shavindu Umesh 3/31, Tharusha Dulanjana 2/10, Chamika Sandaruwan 2/13, Sadesh Kavinda 2/14) At Ambalangoda: Devapathiraja Rathgama 170 all out (45.4) (Pawan Sandesh 68, Tharindu Rukshan 42n.o., Chavindu Achintha 30, Vihanga Malith 2/17, Wanith de Silva 2/19, Pramod Naveen 2/31) Sri Devananda Ambalangoda 146 fir 3 (25) at stumps (Kanchana de Livera 66n.o., Shehan Wickramasinghe 49, Pujith Wathsuka 2/21) | |