Rain, ultimate winner as Battle of the Blues fizzles
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S Thomas’ College Ravindu Sasanka, receiving the Man of the
match award from S Thomas’ College Warden Marc Billimoria at
the persentation ceremony after the Battle of the Blues at
the SSC grounds yesterday. Royal College Principal Upali
Gunasekera looks on. Pic: Herbert Perera |
Rain proved to be the ultimate winneras the 136th Battle Of The Blues
cricket encounter betweenRoyal College and S.Thomas’ College fizzled out
to a draw at the SSCgrounds yesterday.
The Thomians who began their inningsfrom their overnight 182 for 1 in
reply to Royal’s 199 looked set for a substantial first innings lead
with the two overnight batsmenRavindu Sasanka Kodituwakku 88 n.o and
Nipuna Gamage 26 n.o addingexactly 100 runs for the second wicket.
The main focus in the morningsession was on Ravindu Sasanka who was
approaching a well compiledcentury. Sasanka was ably supported by left
hander Nipuna Gamage(48). The Thomians lost both Sasanka ( 95) and
Gamage for (48) inthe quest of scoring quick runs. Sasanka could not
beat HelithaVitharana’s throw after facing 236 deliveries with a dozen
ofboundaries and Gamage suffered the same fate when Tennekoon ran himout
for 48.
The second wicket pair of Sasanka andGamage added 88 runs in the
morning of the third day with thedismissal of both the batsmen Chenutha
Wickremasinghe (28) and Tharindu Ratnayake (15) saw the Thomians reach
270 for 7 declared.Off spinner Randev Pathiorana ( 4 for 71) was the
pick of the Royalbowlers.
SCOREBOARD
Royal College 1st Innings 199
S. Thomas’ College 1st Innings
Yohan Mendis lbw b Randev Pathirana 51
Ravindu Sasanka run out (Helitha Vitharana) 95
Nipun Gamage run out (S.Tennekoon) 48
Chenuka Wickremasinghe b ChamikaKarunaratne 28
Tharindu Ratnayake c Vithanage b Pathirana 15
Sachita Jayatileka c Panditharatne b Pathirana 01
Helakamal Nanayakkara st. Dhanapala b Pathirana 01
Extras. W.1 , Nb. 17, b.2 , Lb.3 23
Total. (for 7 wickets declared in 87.4 overs) 270
Did not bat: Danush Peiris, Navodh Fernando
SajanaDE Silva and Shenal de Silva
Fall of wickets. 109, 209, 224, 259,260, 261, 270.
Bowling: Chamika Karunaratne 23-6-62-1
Himesh Ramanayake 11-2-38-0
Randev Pathirana 31.4 – 8-71-4
Lasith Embuldeniya 8-0-38-0
Helitha Vitharana 2-0-6-0
Harith Samarasinghe 5-2-12-0
Geeshat Panditharatne 1-0-2-0
Royal College 2nd innings
Geeshat Panditharatne not out 09
Hasith Samarasinghe c Mendis b Silva 00
Thiran Dhanapala not out 10
Extras 00
TOTAL (1 wicket; 8 overs) 19
Did not bat: Naveen Withanapathirana, Randev Pathirana
Chamika Karunaratne, Harith Samarasinghe
Helitha Vithanage, Hashen Ramanayake
Lasith Ambuldeniya, Shan Tennakoon
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Hasith Samarasinghe).
Bowling: Hasanka Ratnayake 3-2-9-0
Senal de Silva 2-0-3-1
Sachitha Jayathilake 2-1-6-0
Nipun Gamage 1-0-1-0 |
