Skipper Sachitha guides S. Thomas’ Kasun,Kavindu helps Nalanda to easy win

Skipper Sachitha Jayatileke one of the key players of last year’s champions S. Thomas’ guided his side to defend of the Under 17 Division One cricket title in style when he cracked an unbeaten 108 helping S. Thomas’ to begin their campaign with a massive 171-run win over St John’s Nugegoda in the match played at Mt Lavinia.

(Kanishka Perera 28, Yohan Mendis 26, Romesh Nallaperuma 19, Sachitha Jayatileke 108 no., Rajapaksage Numesh 3 for 43, Dinanjaya Geethika 3 for 64)

(Dilan Madusanka 22, Romesh Nallaperuma 4 for 16, Supun Ratnayake 3 for 21, Rashmika Opatha 2 for 10)

A fine knock of 101 by Kasun Sandaruwan and an all-round perfor mance by Kavindu Bandara helped Nalanda coast to an easy 183-run win over Asoka MV in the Under 17 Division One cricket encounter played at Campbell Place (Kasun Sandaruwan 101, Kavindu Bandara 52, Dasun Seneviratne 33, Shehan Priyamal 5 for 65, Nilanka Jayakodi 2 for 25) (Nilanka Jayakodi 30, Kavindu Bandara 6 for 17, Denuka Perera 2 for 20)