Kaushika rescues St. Anthony’s in drawn game
View(s):Kaushika Kumarasinghe came to the rescue of St Anthony’s College by cracking a valuable century to help them force a draw against traditional rivals Trinity College in their 106th Battle of the Blues big match concluded at Katugastota yesterday.
Kaushika’s knock of 136 runs included 10 each of fours and sixes as he shared two valuable partnerships, a stand of 82 runs for the sixth wicket with Dinuk Wijesinghe and 92 runs for the ninth wicket with Kevan Fernando which helped St. Anthony’s perform a great recovery. Resuming from their overnight score of 22-1, the Antonians were in a perilous position of 52-5 before Kaushika came in as the savious and help them post 250-9 before declaring against Trinity’s first innings total of 314-6 declared. Trinity, batting the second time, ended the day at 99-5 after facing 19 overs when play ended.
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| Trinity 314 for 6 (88.5) decl. (Pulisha Tilekeratne 106, Aadham Hilmy 61, Vathila Udara 48, Dinal Fernando 42n.o., Rajindu Tilekeratne 23; Bimash Samarasinghe 2/87) St. Anthony’s (22-1 overnight) Sadew Amarakoon b Senaratne 00 Januka Ratnayake lbw b Senaratne 18 Thilina Edirisinghe lbw b Senaratne 12 Dinuk Wijesinghe run out 13 Nedan Ebert lbw b Ratnayake 01 Kaushika Kumarasinghe b Yapa 136 Charuka Ekanayake c and b Aburajeewa 31 Kevan Fernando b Yapa 22 Ryan Gregory c R. Tilekeratne b Yapa 05 Bimas Samarasinghe not out 00 Extras (b6, lb2, nb3, w1) 12 Total (9 wickets decl; 85.3 overs) 250 Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Amarakoon, 3.2ov), 2-29 (Rathnayake, 23.2ov), 3-40 (Edirisinghe, 25.6ov), 4-45 (Ebert, 28.5ov), 5-52 (Wijesinghe, 31.4ov), 6-134 (Ekanayake, 55.5ov), 7-226 (Fernando, 81.5ov), 8-242 (Gregory, 83.4ov), 9-250 (Kumarasinghe, 85.3ov) Bowling: Thisal Yapa 4.3-2-8-3, Malith Ratnayake 22-6-71-1, Chaniru Senaratne 18-3-47-3, Ranul Gunaratne 19-7-47-0, Pulisha Tilekeratne 4-2-9-0, Sweath Anurajeewa 15-1-53-1, Vathila Udara 2-0-5-0, Rajindu Tilekeratne 1-0-2-0. Trinity 2nd innings Dimantha Mahavithana lbw b Ekanayake… 11 Pulisha Tilekeratne b Edirisinghe…………… 42 Rajindu Tilekeratne c Ratnayake b Ganegoda 27 Vathila Udara c Ganegoda b Ganegoda…….. 03 Aadham Hilmy c Ratnayake b Edirisinghe….. 01 Chaniru Senaratne not out…………………… 08 Dinal Fernando not out……………………….. 05 Extras (b1, w1)……………………………………. 02 Total (5 wickets; 19 overs)……………………… 99 Did Not Bat: Malith Rathnayake, Sweath Anurajeewa, Thisal Yapa, Ranul Gunarathna Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Mahavithana, 8.4ov), 2-66 (R. Tilekeratne, 13.1ov), 3-84 (Udara, 15.3ov), 4-86 (P. Tilekeratne, 16.1ov), 5-87 (Hilmy, 16.3ov) Bowling: Bimash Samarasinghe 4-0-12-0, Ryan Gregory 4-1-17-0, Dinura Ganegoda 5-0-22-2, Charuka Ekanayake 3-0-20-1, Thilina Edirisinghe 2-0-16-2, Kevan Fernando 1-0-11-0
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