Dinal, Vithara steer St. Joseph’s to victory

A knock of 77 by Dinal Anuruddha and a fivewicket haul by Vithara Thenuka paved the way for St. Joseph’s College to record a comfortable 47-run win over Tissa Central Kalutara in the second round match of the Under 17 inter-school cricket tournament played at Kalutara yesterday.

Dinal’s knock helped St. Joseph’s taking first lease of the wicket to make a modest score of 200 and Vithara’s five wickets enabled them to bowl out the home team for a score of 153 runs.

Thurstan secured a 32-run win against Ananda College in a low scoring match of the same tournament played at Thurtsan ground and St. Peter’s College Negombo coasted to a well deserved four-wicket win against fancied De Mazenod at Godigamuwa while St. Joseph’s College Wattala overcame St. Patrick’s College Jaffna by 57 runs in the match played in Jaffna.

RESULTS:

At Kalutara – St. Joseph’s won by 47 runs

St. Joseph’s 200 in 40.3 overs (Dinal Anuradha 77, Shevon Fonseka 24: Avishka Devinda 3 for 30, Migara Dissanayake 2 for 44)

Tissa Central Kalutara 153 in 42.2 overs (Nikil Shashmika 66, Randula Dasun 20, Avishka Devinda 20: Vithara Thenuka 5 for 32, Dunith Wellalage 2 for 23)

At Thurstan – Thurstan won by 32 runs Thurstan 133 in 38 overs (Ranesh Silva 49: Saviru Bandara 3 for 23, Vinuka Damsith 2 for 26, Isuru Ayesh 2 for 38)

Ananda 101 in 39.1 overs (Nushal Dharmaratne 24: Dhananja Silva 4 for 29, Punsila Kumara 3 for 13, Shimas Nizam 2 for 9)

At Godigamuwa – St. Peter’s won by four wickets

De Mazenod 191 in 45.3 overs (Sahan Kosala 58, Ruvin Fonseka 33, Mithun Senarath 31, Ashen Silva 25: Dineth Sathsara 4 for 21, Pramod Kavindu 2 for 35)

St. Peter’s Negombo 192 for 6 in 48.5 overs (Lasith Bisalanka 77, Shane Maleesha 44: Chanuka Silva 3 for 52, Samindu Dineth 2 for 38)

At Jaffna – St. Joseph’s won by 57 runs

St. Joseph’s Wattala 193 in 46.5 overs (Dimuthu Akesh 73, Hansaja Gunasekera 61, Chalitha Rukmal 31: M. Edishan 5 for 28, S. Jethwin 2 for 26, S. Keerthan 2 for 31)

St. Patrick’s Jaffna 136 in 47.1 overs

(D. Danishes 31, S. Kesrikan 33 n.o.: Vinod Weerasekera 4 for 35 , M. Silva 2 for 0, D. Keith 2 for 18, Isuru Tissera 2 for 30)