Josephians win by an innings

by S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy Sports Corr.

CRICKET: St. Joseph's College, Maradana made amends for their last week's debacle against Royal College when they crushed to an innings and 13-run win over the high riding Trinity College in their inter-school cricket match concluded at the Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy yesterday. Their victory came around 3.45 p.m.

Trinity met their Waterloo as a result of weak kneed batting against the pace of medium pacer Dinal Dambarage who took 3 for 36 and 5 for 56 to end up with excellent figures of 8 for 92. The Josephians continuing their overnight score of 182 for 4 declared their innings closed at 298 for 9 in 84 overs. Eurico Silva top scored with 87 which had 12 fours made in 176 balls. He put 56 for the second wicket with S. Samarawickrama (40) 65 for 3rd wicket with S.A. Jayatillake (19) and 45 for the fifth wicket with R.P. Thathil (44). This hoisted the Josephian innings and made the ground work for their bowlers to do the rest.

Trinitians trailing behind by 180 runs, were off to a shock start losing opener Kithmal Wimalaweera in the first ball of the innings to Dambarage. This started the rot and later they were reeling at 5 for 25 and this later became 61 for 7. It was only a heroic knock of 46 not out with 5 fours off 60 balls by skipper Mohamed Sajad which delayed the Josephian victory. Earlier Kavinda Jayasuriya (43) and Kheliya Athugoda (22) were the only batsmen to defy the Josephian attack.

Trinity: 118 all out and 167 all out in 39.2 overs (Kavinda Jayasuriya 43, Kheliya Athugoda 22, Mohamed Sajid not out 46, Dinal Dambarage 5 for 56, S.A. Chathuranga Kumara 3 for 43, Supeshala Jayatilaka 2 for 16).

St. Joseph's: 182 for 4 wickets overnight continued 298 for 9 wickets declared in 84 overs (M.A.C. Bernadus 14, Sadeera Samarawickrama 40, Eurico Silva 87, Joan Jayasinghe 28, Rosco Thathil 44, S.A. Jaytillaka 19, Dinal Dhambarage 29 not out, Aamil Anas 3 for 68, Kavinda Jayasuriya 2 for 75, Suresh Wickrama 3 for 105).