Rain ruins Joe-Pete game

By Leslie Fernando

CRICKET: Heavy rain around 2.20 p.m. forced the 34th annual Josephian-Peterite limited-over cricket match to be abandoned at the R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday.

With this no-decision, the series tally stands on Peterite 18 wins and Joes 14 and two games with no results.

Peterites sent into bat made 218 for 7 in their alloted 50 overs helped by two valuable partnerships. The openers Srimantha Wijeratne (12) and Andri Berenger 40 with seven fours put on a solid 54 runs then skipper Anuk Silva 32 with six fours and Ruwan Wickremanayake 42 with two fours added 47 runs for the 5th wicket.

Suranga Rodrigo hit a quick fire 26 runs in ten balls which included 3 sixes and a four.

When play was called off Joes were 20 for no loss in 6 overs.

ST. PETERS 

Srimantha Wijeratne lbw b Kumara	 	12
Andri Berenger c Shameera b Dhambarage	 	40
Sivangan Ranasuriya c Sahan b Weerasinghe	 4
Anuk Silva c Shammera b Perera	 		32
Angelo Perera c Thisara b Weerasinghe	 	19
Ruwan Wickremanayake c Sahan b Perera	 	42
Chathura Peiris c Roshanne b Sankalpa	 	21
Suranga Rodrigo not out	 			26
Vinoth Perera not out	  			 6
EXTRAS	 					16
TOTAL (for 7 wkts in 50 overs 			218 

FALL: 54, 54, 89, 99, 141, 175, 209
BOWLING: Thisara Perera 10-0-45-2, Dinal Dhambarage 10-1-36-1, 
Chathuranga Kumara 6-2-23-1, Shameera Weerasinghe 10-0-28-2, 
Prabuddha Sankalpa 8-0-48-1, Roshanne Silva 6-0-31-0.


ST. JOSEPH’S 

Dimuth Karunaratne not out		10
Hareen Silva lbw b Ranasuriya	 	10
EXTRAS	  				 0
TOTAL (for 1 wkt in 6 overs)	 	20 
FALL: 20
BOWLING: Chathura Peiris 2-0-9-0, Vinodh Perera 2-0-8-0, Ruwan Wickremanayake 1-0-1-0, 
Shivanga Ranasuriya 1-0-2-1.