U-19 Cricket: St. Peter's beat St. Aloysius to win Schools T20 title

St. Peter's College Colombo beat St. Aloysius College Galle by 38 runs to win the Schools Under-19 Division I Twenty20 Cricket Championship in the final played at the Galle International Stadium on Saturday (9).

St. Peter's, last year's runners-up, elected to bat first and scored 162-8 and restricted St. Aloysius for 124-8.

Man-of-the-match Chandula Jayamanne produced a valuable allround performance to guide St. Peter's to a convincing win. 

Chandula Jayamanna hit 49 off 24 balls with seven fours and two sixes for the Peterites while skipper Vinu Mohotti scored 40 off 33 balls with four fours and a six. 

Prabodha Guruge claimed four wickets.

Navindu Nirmal top scored for the losers with 36 off 39 balls inclusive of two fours and a six. 

Jayamanne took three wickets.

In the third place playoff Trinity College Kandy beat Prince of Wales' Moratuwa by 4 wickets.

Final: St. Peter's beat St. Aloysius by 38 runs

St. Peter's 162 for 8 wickets (20) (Chandula Jayamanne 49, Vinu Mohotti 40, Praboda Guruge 4/24)

St. Aloysius 124 for 8 wickets (20) (Navindu Nirmal 36, Gihan Niroshan 27 n.o., Chandula Jayamanne 3/24, Chathura Obeysekara 2/13, Taneesha Weerakoon 2/18)

Third place play-off: Trinity beat Prince of Wales by 4 wickets

Prince of Wales 120 all out (20) (Sanoj Darshika 52, Dilanka Gunasekara 26, Raveen Sayer 3/16, Hasitha Boyagoda 3/19)

Trinity 125 for 6 wickets (19.3) (Nushan Weerasinghe 37, Shanogeeth Shanmuganathan 23, Anjula Sahan 2/22)