Asitha, Sihina put De Mazenod in command

De Mazenod’s right-arm pace combination of Asitha de Silva and Sihina Sithumina shared five wickets between them to have St. Peter’s College struggling at 24 for five in their first innings at the end of the first day’s play in the Under-19 Inter-schools Cricket Tournament encounter played at Bambalapitiya yesterday.

Earlier, De Mazenod taking first lease of the wicket made a modest score of 163 runs with Santhush Gunatileke claiming a six-wicket haul.

At Bambalapitiya

De Mazenod: 163 (Senesh Fernando 68, Nadun Dulshan 33, Mark Mathiasz 32 n.o, Santhush Gunatileke 6/5)

St. Peter’s: 24/5 (Asitha Silva 3/2).

At Mount Lavinia

St. Aloysius’, Galle: 83 (Dilmin Ratnayake 4/6, Dellon Peiris 3/34)

S. Thomas’ Mount Lavinia: 151/8 (Diyon Fernando 42).

At Darley Road

St. Joseph’s: 223 (Shevon Daniel 68, Johanne de Zilwa 37, Subanu Rajapaksa 3/44, Pasan Pethangoda 3/50) Mahinda: 13/1.

At Kotte

Siri Piyarathana MMV, Padukka: 190/9 (Kavinda Ishwara 51, Dineth Deemantha 37, Kavindu Mihiranga 3/61) vs Ananda Sastralaya, Kotte.

At Bandaragama

Dudley Senanayake Central, Tholangamuwa: 119 (K. Dharmakeerthi 43, Sasanka Nirmal 7/36)

Holy Cross, Kalutara: 115/4 (Sithum Sanjana 57).

At Balapitiya

C. W. W. Kannangara MMV, Colombo: 223 (Theekshana Kumara 52, Chamika Jeewantha 33)

Siddartha Mmv,balapitiya: 91.