Under-17 cricket quarter-finals Sept. 4 to 8

CRICKET: Sixteen teams qualified to meet each other in the Lemonade Division One Under-17 Inter-school Cricket Tournament pre-quarter finals which are now in progress.

75 teams played in the first round and 32 took part in the second round. The 32 teams were divided into eight groups and the top two teams of each group will meet each other in the pre-quarter finals in a knock out basis.

The schools which qualified to meet each other in the pre-quarter finals of the Lemonade Under-17 Division One are Royal College Colombo vs Royal College, Panadura at Reid Avenue. Wesley vs Prince of Wales at Campbell Park. Devananda vs Maliyadeva at Ambalangoda. S. Thomas', Mount Lavinia vs St. Sebastian's, Moratuwa at Mount Lavinia. Joseph Vaz Wennappuwa vs St. Joseph's, Darley Road at Wennappuwa. St. Peter's, Bambalapitiya vs Thurstan at Bambalapitiya. Trinity vs Lumbini at Kandy. St. Benedict's vs Dharmasoka at Kotahena.

The quarter-finals will be played on September 4,5,7 and 8 and the semi-finals will be worked off on September 16 and 19 and the final will take place on September 25. All matches will be played at the CCC grounds, Maitland Crescent.

Meanwhile eight teams qualified to play in the Lemonade Under-17 Division II School Cricket Tournament quarter-finals. The schools are Wadduwa MV, St. Peter's Negombo, St. Peter's, Bambalapitiya 'B', St. Sebastian's, Moratuwa 'B', Veluwana MV, Colombo, Taxila College, Horana, Anuradhapura Central vs St. Sebastian's College, Katuneriya.