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Weather gods answer their prayers -- Help save game against Nalanda
By Bernie Wijesekera
The Thomians could well do a New Year greeting card to the weather God. Following on at 38 for 1 in their second innings things weren’t looking that bright for the home team. But their saviour was at hand. Rain and bad-light at the end of the sixth mandatory over brought an early end to their game against Nalanda at Mt. Lavinia, yesterday.

Continuing from their overnight total of 27 for 1 in reply to the massive Nalanda total of 305 for 5 declared on Friday, S. Thomas’ crashed to 153 all out in their first innings with the Nalanda spin duo – skipper Gihan Rupasinghe (3 for 30) and Amal Atapattu (5 for 29) not providing any respite to the batsmen. The only Thomian batsman who had fight in him was Ashan Peiris who defied the Nalanda bowlers to score an elegant 67 runs. At the end of the Thomian first innings young left arm spinner Atapattu finished with impressive figures of 25-10-29-5. The Thomians lacked batting skills on their own backyard.

Nalanda - 305/8 dec. in 82 overs (Lahiru Wickermasinghe 54, Tarindu Arthenayake 51, Madhawa Warnapura 77, Uthpala Bhagya 52; Jehan Thahir 3/65)

S. Thomas’ - 27/1(overnight) 153 (S. Pussegolla 19, Ashan Peiris 67, Gehan Rupasinghe 3 for 30, Amal Atapattu 5 for 29). And 38 for 1

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