St. Peter’s record third successive win

St. Peter’s recorded their third successive win against traditional rivals St. Joseph’s with a 54 run win in their 43rd annual limited over encounter played at the SSC ground.

The high scoring match saw St. Peter’s taking first lease of the wicket were steered by two batting displays by Sulakshana Fernando who made 90 and Manelker de Silva an unbeaten 107. Thus the Peterites ended up with a formidable score of 311 for 8. St.

The St. Thomas' College batsmen rattled by losing two of their top order for four runs went on a run crawl against St. Servatius College on the second day of the 117th Battle of the Blues in Matara at the Uyanwatta Stadium yesterday. The Thomians batted out the full 90 overs bowled yesterday to add another 195 runs for the loss of seven wickets to end the day at 199 for 9,

St. Servatius invited to bat first scored 207 runs with Thilan Prashan topping the score card with 61 while opener Nipun Kavinda chipped in with 45. Maleesha de Saram captured three wickets while Hashin Dilman, Lahiru Dilshan and Praveen Madushan were able to secure two wickets each.

Thilan Prashan was able to add Joseph’s in their run chase despite a fine knock of 73 coming from Dineth Madurawala was able to muster a score of only 257. (Sulakshana Fernando 90, Santhush Gunatilleke 31, Lakshina Rodrigo 23, Manelker de Silva 107 n.o.: Thineth Madurawala 2 for 22, Nipun Sumanasinghe 2 for 58) (Dineth Madurawala 73, Havin Perera 47, Jehan Daniel 35, Pahan Perera 23: Sachin Silva 3 for 55, Manelker de Silva 2 for 23, Santhush Gunatilleke 2 for 30)