Trinity rout Ananda for eighth outright win
Trinity College coasted to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Ananda College in the Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter which concluded at Ananda College Ground yesterday.
Trinity dominated proceedings on both the days having bowled out the Anandians for a score of 174 with right arm pacie Ruvin Pieris taking five scalps.
Trinity went on to make a score of 229 runs with overnight batsman Thevin Amarasinghe who was unbeaten on 63 adding a further 25 runs for a top score of 88 runs.
In their second innings, Ananda were bowled out for 156.
Trinity chasing 102 runs for victory in 12 overs were spearheaded by an unbeaten knock of 59 by Dinitha Siriwardena which helped them to reach the target in just 9.4 overs to record an eighth outright win.
S. Thomas recorded their fourth outright win of the ongoing inter-school cricket season with a convincing innings and 48 runs win over Dharmasoka
MV Ambalangoda in the match which ended at Mt Lavinia.
Six other outright wins were recorded yesterday by Mahinda College Galle, who came back having conceded a first innings lead to Maris Stella, Rahula College Matara, Ananda Sastralaya Matugama, Nugawela Central, Vidyaloka MV Galle and Homagama Central.