Cambrians halt Royal's winning streak

by Chris Dhambarage

CRICKET: Prince of Wales College Moratuwa brought an end to Royal's unbeaten record this season while pulling off a sensational nine wicket outright victory in their 82nd annual inter-school under 19 cricket tournament match which concluded at Reid Avenue yesterday.

Royal resuming from their overnight score of 83 for 4 were bundle out for just 124 runs with Malshan Mendis returning outstanding figures of seven wickets for 61. He added a couple of more wickets to his tally in the second innings and finished with a matchbag nine wickets.

Royal who were forced to follow on managed to score only 203 runs in their second innings despite a fighting knock of 89 from Sri Lanka youth cap Bhanuka Rajapaksa.

This was also Prince of Wales' eighth victory against Royal in the overall series which commenced in 1896. Royal of course lead the series with a tally of 36 victories having last defeated the Cambrians in the year 2000.

Prince of Wales: 304 for 9 decl and 24 for 1.

Royal: 124 (M. Rajaratna 38, K. Vithanage 41, M. Mendis 7 for 61) and 203 (C. Bogoda 22, R. Rambukwella 19, B. Rajapaksa 89, M. Mendis 2 for 85, B. de Alwis 4 for 27, S. Jayasuriya 2 for 32, N. Peiris 2 for 47).