St.Peter’s, Kingswood and Rajans impress on day one

Defending champions Dharmaraja, Kingswood and St. Peter’s came up with impressive performances on the first day of the schools Under-20 Rugby Sevens worked off at the Royal Sports Complex yesterday. The only upset of the day was the stunning 24-7 win by lowly placed C.W.W. Kannangara MV, Borella over Trinity College, Kandy.

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Premier League Tournament:

SSC pile up 511 for 7

Test discard veteran Thilan Samaraweera scored a century in the SSC's 511 for 7 wickets against NCC on the second day played at SSC yesterday. The 36-year-old Samaraweera, who has so far scored 310 runs with a 77.50 average in this domestic season, hit 111 runs with 11 fours and two sixes.

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Sunday Observer/Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2013 :

Benedictine Geethika back in the saddle

Royal’s Milan Abeysekera who took top billing last week was ousted to the third place by Benedictine Geethika Jayatileka who polled in 5,698 votes at the end of the fourth week counting in the Sunday Observer/Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year ‘Platinum’ contest for the schools participating in the SLSCA Division Tournament.

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Peterites in first innings win over Joseph Vaz

St. Peter’s College had to be satisfied with a first innings win by 96 runs against Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa in their inter school Under-19 cricket match worked off at Bambalapitiya. Resuming at 118 for 4 in reply to Peterite’s total of 286 on day two Vazians were all out for 190 runs with skipper Kasun Vidura (69) and Sevwinda Silva unbeaten on 52 and they had a valuable partnership of 54 runs for the sixth wicket.

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