Royal on first innings

Royal College beat Zahira College on first innings in their Singer Trophy Under 19 inter school cricket tournament match at Reid Avenue yesterday.

Ronuka Jayawardena of Royal scored half centuries in both innings and together with Naveen Vidanapathirana produced an unbroken 108 runs for the first wicket.

Lasith Embuldeniya also showed up well taking five wickets for 12 runs.

Royal: 176 (Ronuka Jayawardena 50, Tiran Danapala 27, Lasith Embuldeniya 24, Irshad Samsudeen4/42, Sajith Sameera 3/28, Mohammed Najath 3/64) and 108/ (Ronuka Jayawardena 54 n.o., Naveen Vidanapathirana 52 n.o)

Zahira: 128 (Thilanka Rupasinghe 26, Sajith Sameera 26, Ishan Samsudeen 23,Lasith Embuldeniya 5/12, HelithaVithanage 3/25) and 52/2 (Mohammed Najath 24 n.o.) -(YK)