Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Lasith stars in Annites victory

- By Vijitha Senaratne - Kurunegala sports corr

A superb knock of 150 in 137 balls by number three batsman Lasith Warnakulas­ooriya helped St Anne's College Kurunegala to an easy 108 run victory over Kingswood College Kandy in their all island inter school under 17 division I Cricket tournament match played at Prison grounds Pallekelle recently. Warnakulas­ooriya reached his hundred in 113 balls and in all hit 2 sixes and 22 fours.

St Anne's made 222 from 49.2 overs and restricted their opponents for just 114 in 31.5 overs as Kavindu Ranasinghe captured 5/30 for the winners.

In another match in the same tournament St Anne's defeated Ibbagamuwa M.M.V by 95 runs at Kurunegala. After winning the toss St Anne's batted first made 196 from 47.3 overs. Lasith Warnakulas­ooriya again batted well to score a fine 78 while Kavindu Ranasinghe (51) too scored some useful runs. In reply Ibbagamuwa could manage only 101 in 28.4 overs. Kavindu Ranasinghe bowled best to capture 4/23 for the Annites.

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