Sandaru steers Thurstan to victory

A fine matchbag of 11 for 77 from Sandaru Dias helped Thurstan College beat Dharmapala MV, Pannipitiya by five wickets in their Under-19 Inter-schools Cricket Tournament encounter which concluded at Thurstan Grounds yesterday.

Dharmapala: 157 and 131 (Dulaj Egodage 22, Tharindu Sandaruwan 22, Nadun Hewanayake 21, Sandaru Dias 5/34, Shalaka Bandara 2/22)

Thurstan (85/7 overnight): 182 (Ranesh Silva 48, Ayesh Harshana 40, Sandaru Dias 35, Dilshan de Silva 4/40, Lakshitha Purasinghe 2/14, Chamindu Samarasinghe 2/44) and 107/5 (Sanuth Nandinu 49).