Fleming, Thuvaragan, Lohathieswar, guide St John’s Jaffna

Sebamalaipillai Jeni Fleming, Santhirakumkar Thuvaragan and Raviendran Lohathieswar shone in batting and bowling departments helping St John’s Jaffna to record a massive innings and 207 runs win over Canagaratnam MMV in the under 19 match played at St John’s ground in Jaffna.

It was left hand batsmen Fleming who laid the foundation for the Johnians win when he cracked an unbeaten 113 in just 111 balls inclusive of 18 boundaries supported by half tons from Arulanantham Ghna- mirthan and Sajenthiran Kabilraj enabling them to post a mammoth score of 358 for 8 declared.

This was followed by some fiery bowling spell by right arm pacie Thuvaragan who ended with a match bag of 10 for 66 and left arm spinner Lohathieswar who finished with a match bag of 8 for 54 enabling the Johnians to bowl out their opponents for scores of 73 and 88.

St John’s Jaffna 368 for 8 declared (Arulanantham Ghnamirthan 59, Sajenthiran Kabilraj 58, Paramanantham Thuvarakaseelan 43, Abraham Anojan 24, Vasan- than Jathusan 18, Sebamalaipillai Jeni Fleming 113 n.o.: Vigneswaran Vishnuganan 3 for 77, Kobalarasa Uthayasubesan 2 for 85) Canagaratnam MMV 73 (Pathmaseelan Logatharshan 23, Gnanasegeram Thamilenthy 20: Santhirakumkar Thuvaragan 5 for 23, Raviendran Lohathieswar 4 for 31) and 88 (Gnanasegeram Thamilenthy 23, Vigneswaran Vishnuganan 18: Santhirakumkar Thuvaragan 5 for 43, Raviendran Lohathieswar 3 for 23)