St. John's crawl to draw Jaffna's big match

The 110th big match cricket encounter called the Battle of the North between Jaffna Central College and St. John's College ended in a draw in Jaffna yesterday.

Jaffna Central's Y.Kirubakaran scored 103 with 12 boundaries and two sixes to be adjudged the man of the match.

St. John' faced with a target 263 ended at 179 runs for 5 wickets after using up as much as 63 overs.

Jaffna Central: 161 (A. Jeroshan 51, S. Komethakan 39,V. Dinojan 13 n.o., S. Alanraj 10, Vasantha Jathushan 4/39, Mahalingam Nilojan 3/28, Arulananthan Ghanamirthan 2/38) and 264 in 94 overs (Y. Kirubakaran 103, S.Komethagan 34, S. Alanraj 34, n.o., U. Priyaluxshan 28, V.Dinojan 15, V. Jathusana 3/53, K. Kapilaraj 3/65, M.Nilojan 2/52, A. Gnanamirthan 2/53)

St John's: 163 in 53 overs (J. Krishanjuthan 31, V.Jathusan 28 n.o., K. Kapilraj 22, J.Stalon 18, M. Nilojan 15, K.Thespian Raj 4/74, S. Thashopan 3/24, S. Alanraj 2/29) and 179/5 in 63 overs (Jennie Fleming 37, K. Kapilraj 31, M. Nilojan 24, P.Somakaran 24, V. Jathushan 20, S. Mathushan 2/32)

-YK