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A Royal crash at Moratuwa
Royal succumbed to their second defeat of the season when they lost to Prince of Wales College by six wickets at Moratuwa yesterday. After crashing to 156 all out in reply to the POW's first innings total of 32, Royal looked as if they were back on track at 152 for 3 in the afternoon session. However after the departure of skipper Dimithri Siriwardena in the afternoon session the visitors folded up to 234 all out leaving the lads of Moratuwa a target of 70 runs to make in 14 overs which they did for the loss of four wickets.

Prince of Wales - 321 and 70 for 4 (Ramesh Thirimanne 19 n.o; Nadun Punchihewa 2 for 30) Royal - 59 for 3 contd. 156 ( Dulanjaya Wijeratne 46, Dimithri Siriwardena 16 Feroze Ahmed 30) and 152 for 3 ( Gayan de Silva 44, Sukitha Senaratne 54, Dimithri Siriwardena 42, Feroze Ahmed 18, Malinga Maligaspe 36; Isuru Gunasena 2 for 69, Prishan Hewage 2 for 40, Sanka Perera 3 for 30) (SMD)

Tame draw at Campbell Park
A fine all round performance by St. Sebastian's fast bowler Randika Fernando who scored a polished 56 and a match bag of 5 for 43 and a fine spell of off break bowling by Wesley College youngster C. Karunaratne, who had 5 for 101, were the main features in the drawn inter-school encounter at Campbell Park yesterday.

Wesley - 175 and 96 for 2 at stumps (S. Nadarajah 33, S. Rupasinghe 35; Randika Fernando 2 for 24)
St. Sebastian's - 101 for 3 overnight 278 ( Randika Fernando 56, Dilhan Cooray 41, Tony Rodrigo 43, Sanjeeva Fernando 27; C. Karunaratne 5 for 101, S. Rupasinghe 2 for 25, T. Naziar 2 for 47) (SJ)

Ananda run out of steam
The inter school match between Ananda and Dharmarajah ended in an exciting draw at Ananda grounds yesterday.
Ananda who were set a target of 153 runs to win in 22 overs were tottering at 46 for 8 when stumps were drawn.

Ananda resuming from their overnight score of 165 for 5 scored 247 with P. Udawatte stroking a brilliant 100 of 95 balls. Dharmarajah were bowled out for 159 in their second innings with opening bat with C. Bandara top scoring with 60.
Dharmarajah - 240 and 159 all out ( C. Bandara 60, A.J. Ranaraja 22, A. Ranasinghe 5 for 18)

Ananda - 165 for 5 cont. 247( Mahela Udawatte 100, P. Boteju 42; P.N. Perera 2 for 49) and 46/8 ( P.Boteju 22, C. Kapugedera 4 for 10, T. Perera 2 for 1)

Match drawn at Panadura
The Elpehant Lemonade inter-school cricket match between Sri Sumangala and Mahanama College at the Panadura Esplanade ended in a draw. The highlight of the match was a fine 104 by Sumangala's Shammika Heshan inclusive of 16 boundaries and one six.

Mahanama - 261 (H. Silva 58, A, Jayasinghe 58, C. Balasuriya 53, M. Perera 49; Sudesh Umayanga 3 for 36, Iresh Pushpakumara 3 for 31, Charith Molligoda 2 for 61) and 96 for 6 (M. Fernando 24, M. Perera 22; Iresh Pushpakumara 3 for 20)

Sri Sumangala - 307 (Shammika Heshan 104, Sahan Diluksha 49, Mohan Fonseka 52, Rajiv Nirmal 22; H. Silva 2 for 43, T. Pamunugama 2 for 39).

School matches were covered by M. Samil Amit, Shamseer Jaleel, Bilal Yousuf and S.M. D. Sirisena

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