St Sebastian’s record fourth successive win

St Sebastian’s recorded their fourth successive outright win when they defeated Wesley by seven wickets in their Elephant Lemonade inter-school encounter concluded at Moratuwa yesterday. They are registering an outright victory over Wesley after a lapse of 13 years which was in 1994 under the captaincy of Sanjeewa Silva.

Wesley 150 (Ishan Jayaratne 60, Dulanjan Wijesinghe 34.; Charith Fernando 4 for 65, Sanjaya Fernando 3 for 8) and 180 (Thilina Abeysekera 44, Sachindra Rupasinghe 35, Tariq Naziar 29.; Sanjaya Fernando 3 for 28, Charith Fernando 3 for 61, Jerald Bennett 2 for 17)

St Sebastian’s 237 (Dilhan Cooray 63, Sachintha Cooray 53, Rajitha Mendis 44, Trevin Fernando 34, Jerald Bennett 22.; Geoffery Vandersay 5 for 38, Dulanjan Wijesinghe 2 for 44, Thilina Abeysekera 2 for 50) and 94 for 3 (Trevin Fernando 29, Rajitha Mendis 19, Dilhan Cooray 18 n.o.)

Chanaka steers Bens to first win
Right arm pacie Chanaka Wijewardena with a match bag of 11 for 41 steered St Benedict’s to their first outright win of the season helping them beat St Anne’s Kurunegala by eight wickets in the match concluded at Kotahena yesterday.

St Anne’s 119 (N. Perera 41, Y. Kanumale 35.; Chanaka Wijewardena 7 for 18, Amila Perera 2 for 32) and 80 (S. Silva 31, C. Pathirana 31 n.o.; Chanaka Wijewardena 4 for 23, Amila Perera 2 for 3, Dilshan Perera 2 for 11)

St Benedict’s 162 (K. Prabu 40, S. Nandalal 22, N. Fonseka 20; C. Rodrigo 6 for 30, A. Wanninayake 2 for 44) and 38 for 2 (N. Fonseka 20)

DSS-Rajan match drawn
The inter-school cricket encounter between DSS and Dharmaraja concluded at Wijerama Mawatha ended in a draw yesterday. Rajans resuming from their overnight score of 47 for 1 were bowled out for 120 in reply to DSS score of 281 for 7 declared. Made to follow on they ended the day on 159 for 9.

DSS 281 for 7 declared (Dilum Harischandra 150, Gayashan Weerasekera 46, Madhawa Perera 26, Lahiru Weragala 20.; B. Weersuriya 3 for 48, Y. Suriyabandara 2 for 46)

Dharmaraja (47/1 o’night) 120 (C. Ratnayake 32, B. Ekanayake 23.; Roshan Laksiri 4 for 19, Nadeesha Jayakody 3 for 12, Dimuthu Samarakkody 3 for 26) and 159 for 9 (B. Ranatunga 31, V. Suriyaarachchi 28, R. Amarakone 22 n.o.; Roshan Laksiri 4 for 51, Gayashan Weerasekera 2 for 11, Dimuthu Samarakkody 2 for 27)