Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Mead and Farnsworth the heroes for St. John’s

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Harry Mead with 70 runs and William Farnsworth 77 were the heroes for the touring St. John’s College, England in their 25 runs win over S.A. Cricket Academy, Moratuwa in a T/20 match at Maggona.

The visitor are the guests of Butterfly Travels who are the ground handlers and transport agents for the team.

St. John’s College 247 for 5 in 20 overs

(Harry Mead 70, Williams Farnsworth 77 Christophe­r 24, Sam Hunt 29 n.o.)

SACA 222 for 5 in 20 overs (Subath Nilanka 66, Ranga Gammanpila 79 N.o., J. Paget 2 for 30)

St. John’s beat SACA by wickets

St. John’s College, England beat SA Cricket Academy, Moratuwa by six wickets in a T/20 match at Maggona.

Batting first, the home team were 151 for seven even they ran out of overs.

St. John’s in reply reached their target with six wickets to spare.

SACA 151 for 7 in 20 overs (T. Wijerathne 35, G. De Silva 40, H. Perera 40, Sam Hunt 4 for 23).

St. John’s 153 for 4 in 17.4 overs (Luke Trimming 39, Harry Bulkeley 48, C. Munto 19, J. Pagett 27 n.o., T. Thakshi 3 for 19).

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