Nipun another ‘ton’ for St. Joseph's
Nipun Sumanasinghe continued his batting form when he made an unbeaten 120 that comprised 17 boundaries. He along with Cameron Duruge who hit a 70 put on a valuable partnership of 187 runs for the second to go into the lunch break on day two on 244 for 3 against Trinity in their Under 19 inter- school cricket encounter played at Darley Road.
This was in reply to Trinity’s score of 264 which came on the back of half tons from Shanogeeth Shanmuganathan and Trevon Percival.
Wesley resuming from their overnight score of 24 for 1 helped by half tons from Thilina Perera and Jason de Silva were 158 for 5 when play stopped for lunch on the second day against S. Thomas’ in the match played at Mt. Lavinia.
The opening day’s play saw an unbeaten 97 by Romesh Nallaperuma and a half ton by Dinura Gunawardena enabled S. Thomas’ taking first lease of the wicket making a formidable score of 306
Half tons by Kavindu Gimhana and Sahan Suraweera saw Ananda ending the morning session of play in a strong position against Royal in the match played at Ananda Mawatha.
Ananda in reply to Royals 221 resuming from their overnight score of 83 for 0 were 209 for 4 at the lunch break.
DSS has already taken a first inning lead over St Aloysius Galle when play stopped for lunch on the second day in the match played at Pannipitiya. DSS after making a score of 306 bowled out St Aloysius continuing from their overnight score of 15 for 0 for 169.
Exchanges were even in the match between St Peter’s and Prince of Wales in the match played at Bambalapitiya while Bandaranayake MV Gampaha and St Patrick’s Jaffna were on top against fancied De Mazenod at Kandana and Ibbagamuwa Central at Jaffna. Pix by Amila Gamage
and Ranjith Perera