Trinity book berth to final in style

Trinity booked the berth to the final of Under 19 Division One Tier ‘A” segment two day cricket tournament in style when they chalked up a comfortable outright win by seven wickets over Maliyadeva College Kurunegala in the semi final encounter concluded at the Ace Capital CC ground in Kirimandala Mawatha today.

The second day’s play saw Trinity in reply to the Devans score of 139 resuming from their overnight score of 106 for 2 going on to make 199 for a lead of 60 runs.

Maliyadeva batting the second time saw Trinity’s bowling pair Tharana Wimaladharma and Jayavi Liyanagama too hot to handle as they collapsed to a score of 54 for 6 and they never recovered as Wimaladharmawho ended with a match bag of eight wickets cleaned off the tail to bundle them out for 99 which left Trinity a simple run chase of 40 runs which they achieved with ease.

Meanwhile St Joseph’s booked the other final berth of the same division when they came out on top against St. Benedict’s in the other semi final played at S. Thomas’ ground in Mt Lavinia which ended in a draw.

St. Joseph’s resuming from their overnight score of 294 for 3, declared their innings having made a formidable score of 439 for 7 and St. Benedict’s in their turn was on 81 for 6 when the match was called off due to bad light that ended in bonus points win for St Joseph’s.

St. Servatius Matara too made it to the final of the Under 19 Division One Tier ‘B’ segment by virtue of gaining bonus points in a high scoring semi final encounter against Mahinda Galle played at Maggona.

Results:

At Kirimandala Mawatha

Maliyadeva 139 (Gayana Weerasinghe 65, Pasindu Menaka 16: Tharana Wimaladharma 4 for 34, Dinuka Tennekoon 3 for 37, Kaveen Heshan 2 for 23) and 99 (Gayana Weerasinghe 20, Chandupa Abeysinghe 16: Tharana Wimaladharma 4 for 36, Jayavi Liyanagama 3 for 6)

Trinity (106/2 overnight) 199 (Dinusha Peiris 45, Dinuka Tennekoon 36, Rahal Amarsinghe 34, Jayavi Liyanagama 17, Tharana Wimaladharma 15: Charuka Herath 4 for 43, Dimath Abeysinghe 3 for 61) and 41 for 3 (Vathila Udara 17, Dinusha Peiris 17 n.o.)

At Mt Lavinia – St. Joseph’s prevail on bonus points

St. Joseph’s (294/3 overnight) 439 for 7 declared (Naren Muralitharan 102, Muditha Dissanayake 78, Sadeesh Jayawardena 44, Sahan Dabare 41, Avintha de Alwis 101 n.o., Lahiru Amarasekera 46 n.o.: Mevan Dissanayake 4 for 137)

St. Benedict’s 81 for 6 (Sharujan Shanmuganathan 33, Shenel Samaratunga 21, Viduneth Wilson 17: Yenula Dewthusa 2 for 8, Lahiru Amarasekera 2 for 26)

At Maggona – Mahinda prevail on bonus points

St. Servatius Matara 350 for 9 declared (Kushan Wijerama 86, Dinuru Abeywickramasinghe 31, Chiran Neththaru 31, Chamarindu Nethsara 30, Mithila Charles 28, Vishwa Supun 101 n.o.: Senuka Dangamuwa 4 for 104, Kaveen Rukshan 2 for 58)

Mahinda Galle 295 for 8 (Pramesh Madubashana 117, Hiruna Gallage 47, Senuka Dangamuwa 35, Ranmina Hettiarachchi 32, Hareen Achintha 30, Dhanuja Induwara 15: Chiran Neththaru 4 for 54, Thisan Dewmith 3 for 90). By M. Shamil Amit