Southern outclass Eastern
Southern Province outclassed Eastern Province by 166 runs in the U19 Inter-provincial cricket tournament encounter concluded at Braybrooke Place yesterday.
The second day’s play saw Eastern Province in reply to Southern Province’s score of 214 resuming on their overnight score of 103 for 6 being bundled out for 127.
Southern Province batting the second time going in for quick runs made a score of 197 for 6 declared in just 34.4 overs. Eastern Province being set a target of 285 runs for victory succumbed to the bowling combination of Dilum Sudeera, Prashan Kumara and Hareen Buddila and were skittle out for just 118 runs.
In the other two matches played at Thurstan ground in Reid Avenue and MCA ground saw Western Province and North Western Province record easy first innings wins over Northern Province and Uva Province.
Meanwhile Avishka Fernando slammed a quick fire 153 runs in just 149 balls which included 15 boundaries and half a dozen sixes as Western Province South took a first innings lead over Central on day one in the match played at the Surrey Village ground in Maggona. Avishka was involved in two fruitful partnerships-- first of 55 runs for the opening wicket with Vishwa Chathuranga and an unbroken 183 runs with Kamil Mishra helping his side to end the day on 238 for 1 in reply to their opponents score of 140. At Braybrooke Place – SP beat EP by 166 runs Southern Province 214 (Chathura Milan 63, Dhananjaya Lakshan 25, Kaveesh Kumara 25, Hareen Buddila 22, Navindu Nirmal 47 n.o.: Naveen Gunawardena 4 for 89, Mohamed Rasfas 2 for 59) and
197 for 6 declared (Kaveesh Kumara 42, Kavindu Ediriweera 36, Navindu Nirmal 23, Chathura Milan 19 n.o.: Naveen Gunawardena 3 for 75, Mohamed Faheem 2 for 31) Eastern Province (103/6 overnight) 127 (Lasith Croospulle 46, Sasindu Diwankara 24, Eranga Heshan 15, Naveen Gunawardena 19 n.o.: Dilum Sudeera 4 for 33, Prashan Kumara 2 for 27, Hareen Buddila 2 for 37) and 118 (Sasindu Diwankara 39, R. Thenurathan 29, Iranga Galhewage 17:
Dilum Sudeera 4 for 65, Hareen Buddila 3 for 13, Prashan Kumara 2 for 23) At Thurstan – First inning win for WPN Western Province North 306 for 8 declared (Jehan Daniel 104, Nipun Haggala 73, Kavishka Anjula 49, Sammu Ashan 23: Vasanthan Jathusan 4 for 72, G. Ratheeshan 3 for 62) and 51 for 5 (K. Kapilraj 4 for 28)
Northern Province (117/3 overnight) 146 (M. Nithushan 55, S. Komitharan 23, C. Thevaprasanth 16: Himath Jayaweera 5 for 57, Supun Waragoda 3 for 20) and 253 (Sebamalapillai Jeni Fleming 76, Ayana Siriwardena 65: Himath Jayaweera 4 for 91, Helitha Bambarenda 2 for 60) At MCA – First inning win for NWP North Western Province 253 (Wanitha Wanninayake 73, Nipun Dhananjaya 67, Ashan Dhakshitha 32, Keshan Wanniarachchi 29, Randeer Ranasinghe 26: Avindu Theekshana 4 for 96, Kavishka Dinesh 3 for 36, Rajitha Nirmal 2 for 41) and 182 for 5 declared (Keshan Wanniarachchi 56, Heshan Dhanushka 53, Tharindu Vimukthi 19, Damitha Silva 26 n.o.: Prameesha Dilsara 3 for 55) Uva Province (127/6 overnight) 167 (Gayana Prithimal 48, Ravindu Sanjana 33, Raveen Yasas 23, Mapa Malinda 22, Naveen Hasaranga 20: Kaveen Bandara 3 for 25, Damitha Silva 2 for 29, Nipun Dhananjaya 2 for 29) and 170 for 7 (Avindu Theekshana 57, Mapa Malinda 18, Pameesha Dilshan 22 n.o.: Damitha Silva 3 for 52, Randeer Ranasinghe 2 for 20) At Maggona Central Province 140 (Gihan Witharana 28, Mohamed Alfar 25, Thisaru Dilshan 24: Savindu Peiris 2 for 12, Asher Warnakulasuriya 2 for 17, Dilesh Nanayakkara 2 for 19) Western Province South 238 for 1 (Vishwa Chathuranga 32, Avishka Fernando 153 n.o., Kamil Mishra 46 n.o.)