Fine record by CCC School of Cricket Under-13 team in India
An all-round combination of Under 13 cricketers from the CCC Schools of Cricket left on a tour to India for the 18th occasion and returned to the island with a fine record of nine wins out of 11 matches with one lose and a nodecision.
Led by Royalist Thevindu Senaratne this outfit with a combination of a strong bowling attack never allowed any opponent cross the 150 mark and in batting they scored three times over 200 runs and never being all out except the solitary match they lost in the hands of S. Joseph’s High School.
Deputy skipper Dineth Jayakody, a Josephian had fruitful tour scoring two unbeaten centuries and a 70 n.o. to aggregate 404 runs with an average of 80.8 was adjudged the Best Batsman. Dunil Ranasinghe won the bowling honours for being the highest wicket taker on the tour while the Best All-rounders award went to Monil Silva from Wattala Lyceum, another Lyceumite Piriyan Tiruchelvam was selected the Most Promising Player of the tour. Another two youngsters to perform well were Yasas Abeysekera and Pavan Ratnayake. The other members of the touring party were Dewmina Kankanamage, Kavindu Pathirana, Prabhasara Herath. Hirusha Jayasooriya (w/k), Dan Vaz, Nimneth Navaratne and Thiven Punchihewa.
– Lakshman Ranasinghe
Chief Scores of matches on tour:
CCC SC beat Frank Anthony Public School by 111 runs
CCC SC 210 for 3 in 20 overs (Thevindu Senaratne 97 n.o., Yasas Abeysekera 75, Dewmina Kankanamage 27, Vinaey Murgesh 3/35)
F.A.P.S. 99 in 19.2 Overs (FEuzan Jaffar 37, Pavan Ratnayake 3 for 7, Piriyan Tiruchelvam 2/12, Monil Silva 2/22)
CCC SC Vs. F.A.P.S. (2nd match): No decision match interrupted by rain
CCC SC 66 for no loss in 9 overs (Dineth Jayakody 34 n.o., Dewmina Kankanamage 24 n.o.)
CCC SC beat Brigesh Patel CA by 113 runs
CCC SC 236 for 9 in 30 overs (Dineth Jayakody 105 n.o., Yasas Abeysekera 62 n.o., Prabhasara Herath 22, Seshan 3/28, Jogi 2/35)
B.P.C.A. 123 for 6 in 30 overs (Nokul 63 n.o., Piriyan Tiruchelvam 2 for 8, Prabhasara Herath 2/12, Kavindu Pathirana 2/14)
CCC SC beat Brigesh Patel CA by 87 runs:
CCC Sc 150 in 20 overs (Movin Silva 50, Piriyan Tiruchelvam 28 n.o., Dan Vaz 20, Aditiya Devanash 4/14)
B.P.C.A. 62 in 19 overs (Shehas Rao 20, Sri Kiran 18, Dunil Ranasinghe 5/12, Monil Silva 2/2)
CCC SC beat S. Joseph’s Boys High School by 8 wickets
SJBHS 45 in 18 overs (Vishwanath 12, Anuradh 10 n.o., Thiven Punchihewa 2/12, Yasas Abeysekera 2/7)
CCC SC 51 for 2 in 9 overs (Pavan Ratnayake 16 n.o., Hirusha Jayasooriya 12 n.o.)
CCC SC lost to S. Joseph’s Boys High School by 8 wickets
CCC SC 97 in 22 overs (Dineth Jayakody 30, Yasas Abeysekera 21, Pavan Ratnayake 18 n.o., Sanil 4/26, Shahid 3/13, Ankush 2/5)
S.J.B.H.S. 101 for 2 in 23 overs (Hemanketh 44, Chinmay 32 n.o.)
CCC SC beat S. Joseph’s High School by 8 wickets in a 10 over match
S.J.B.H.S. 57 for 9 in 10 overs (Michael 25, Piriyan Tirichelvam 3/30, Monil Silva 2/7)
CCC SC 60 for 3 in 7.1 overs (Thevindu Senaratne 30, Dineth Jayakody 18)
CCC SC beat Imtiaz Ahmed C.A. by 140 runs
CCC SC 256 for 6 in 30 overs (Dineth Jayakody 121 n.o., Dewmina Kankanamage 40, Kavindu Pathirana 26, Prabhasara Herath 16 n.o., Siddharth 2/19)
I.A.C.A. 118 in 26.2 overs (Siddharth 29, Mukunth 21, Dunul Ranasinghe 3/10, Nimneth Navaratne 2/14, Monil Silva 2/16)
CCC SC beat Imtiaz Ahmed C.A. by 62 runs
CCC SC 162 in 20 overs (Thevindu Senaratne 44, Dineth Jayakody 32, Prabhasara Herath 20, Pavan Rathnayake 16)
I.A.C.A. 100 in 19.2 overs (Priyaranjan 24, Nabeel 24, Manoj 20, Dineth Jayakody 3/7)
CCC SC beat Bangalore Youth CA by 2 runs
CCC SC 138 for 8 in 25 overs (Yasas Abeysekera 52, Kavindu Pathiratne 25, Dewmina Kankanamage 22, Jaswanth 5/33)
B.Y.C.A. 136 for 9 in 25 overs (Ariyaman 28, Rithik 26, Derane 22, Kavindu Pathiratne 2/20, Priyan Thiruchelvam 2/13)
CCC SC beat Neptune Cricket Academy, Bangalore by 4 wickets
Neptune C.A. 132 for 6 in 25 overs (Kruthik 57, Visal 32, Nimneth Navaratne 2/22)
CCC SC 135 for 6 in 24 overs (Dineth Jayakody 70 n.o., Yasas Abeysekera 32, Jaswanth 2/20)