Mini Battle of the Blues Hill Capital First Innings win for Antonians

By Shamseer Jaleel
St. Anthony’s College warmed up for their big game next week with a first innings win over Trinity College in their Mini Battle of the Blues, which concluded at Katugastota yesterday.
Dinura Ganegoda made a solid 73 and took six wickets for the Katugastota lads, while Trinity spinner Chaniru took a match bag of 10 wickets.
St. Anthony’s 217 in 79.2 overs (Dinura Ganegoda 73, Nethan Ebert 47, Kavindu Nawanjana 35; Chaniru Senarathne 7/50, Saweth Anurajeewa 2/36) and 86/8 decl. in 39 overs (Dinul Wijesinghe 18 n.o.; Chaniru Senarathne 3/11, Kaveen Gamage 2/9)
Trinity 180 in 60 overs (Puisha Thilakarathna 52, Chaniru Senarathne 39; Dinura Ganegoda 6/19) and 45/1 in 6 overs (Rajindu Thilakarathna 25 n.o.)