Trinity break 51-year hoodoo by beating Joes

By Ranjan Anandappa

A fine team effort by Trinity College Kandy helped them to beat St.Joseph’s College by 5 wickets after 51 years at Darley Road yesterday.

Shanmuganathan Sanojith (7 for 35) and Raveen Sayer who had a match bag of ( 6 for 93) were the architects of the Kandy schools win. It was Trinity’s seven th win for the season.

St Joseph’s 111 (Pathum Madusanka 29: Shanmuganathan Sanojeeth 7 for 35, Raveen Sayer 3 for 39) and 224 (Jehan Daniel 72, Aravinda Akurugoda 41, Hashindra Perera 37: Pramodya Abeykoon 3 for 36, Raveen Sayer 3 for 54, Dilan Jayalath 2 for 12).

Trinity (164/8 overnight) 183 (Dilan Jayalath 53, Hasitha Boyagoda 49: Aravinda Akurugoda 3 for 73, Harin Cooray 2 for 7, Treshan Perera 2 for 16, Jehan Daniel 2 for 28) and 156 for 5 (Arjuna Jayasinghe 40, Madawa Munaweera 24, Shanmuganathan Sanojeeth 27 n.o.: Aravinda Akurugoda 3 for 57)

Tharindu Ratnayake (15 for 59) the match winner

Tharindu Ratnayake with a startling match bag of (15 for 59) bowled S.Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia to an innings and 54 runs win in their school cricket encounter against Wesley College at Mont Lavinia yesterday.

The Wesleyites were all at sea as Ratnayake captured seven wickets in the first innings and eight wickets in the second innings when Wesley were made to follow on. – S. Thomas’ - beat Wesley by innings.

S. Thomas’ 240 (Yohan Mendis 57, Nipuna Gamage 47, Chenutha Wickramasinghe 38, Ravindu Sasanka 29, Helakamal Nanayakkara 36 n.o. Reshana Seneviratne 4 for 40, Andrew Parais 3 for 61). Wesley (80/7 overnight) 83 (Helitha Bambaranda 17, Senith Wickramanayake 33 n.o. Tharindu Ratnayake 7 for 17) and 103 (Andrew Parais 23, Jonathan Caderamanpulle 19: Tharindu Ratnayake 8 for 42, Sachitha Jayatilleke 2 for 0).