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Lumbini goes down, but not without a fight
By M. Shamil Amit
Nalanda beat Lumbini MV by seven wickets, but the dour lads from Havelock Town did not die without a fight in their inter-school cricket match concluded at Campbell Place yesterday.

The Nalandians put themselves in a strong position at the end of the first days play when they scored a formidable 246 for 6 declared with the help of three half centuries from Sachitra Serasinghe, Lahiru Wickramasinghe and all rounder Yasas Hewavitharana. Lumbini in reply ended the day on 23 for 2.

Resuming on the second day Nalandian pacies Prabath Kariyapperuma and Yasas Hewavitharana had the Lumbini batsmen on pins to bundle them out for 60. Prabath and Yasas shared seven wickets between them with Sachitra Serasinghe taking two scalps. Following on Lumbini were left with a daunting task of making another 186 runs if they were to give the Nalandians a fight back.

They were cruising well reaching 160 for 5 wickets at tea but spinners Sachitra Serasinghe and Gihan Rupasinghe kept the Lumbini batsmen on check to reduce them to 214 with the last five wickets falling for only 54 runs. Nalanda left with a victory target of 29 to win in 14 overs reached the score only in the 12th over and thus also losing three wickets in the process.

Nalanda 246 for 6 declared (Sachitra Serasinghe 81, Lahiru Wickramasinghe 60, Yasas Hewavitharana 51, Gihan Rupasinghe 36 n.o.; Asiri Godapitiya 4 for 54) and 29 for 3.

Lumbini MV (23/2 o'night) 60 (Prabath Kariyapperuma 4 for 29, Yasas Hewavitharana 3 for 19, Sachitra Serasinghe 2 for 7) and 214 (Mohamed Asker 42, S. Chaturanga 47, T. Rangana 20, Malinda Pushpakumara 18, Sachitra Serasinghe 4 for 34, Gihan Rupasinghe 3 for 41)

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