Under-19 Cricket Lahiru, Rishma guides St. Joseph’s to innings win

Cricket

By M. Shamil Amit

Right arm spinner Lahiru Amarasekera returned his best match figures of nine wickets and ended with a match bag of 12/95, while Rishma Amarasinghe cracked an unbeaten 120 to help St. Joseph’s coast to a convincing innings and 79 runs win over Maliyadeva Kurunegala in the Under-19 inter-school cricket encounter played at Darley Road. Nalanda and St. Joseph Vaz Wennappuwa recorded first-inning wins against S. Thomas’ and Zahira in two other matches played at Mt. Lavinia and Katunayake, respectively.

Results

At Darley Road – St. Joseph’s won by innings and 79 runs

Maliyadeva Kurunegala 175 (Chandupa Abeysinghe 32, Vinuka Galappaththi 31, Dimmantha Arusha 24, Gayana Weerasinghe 67 n.o.; Lahiru Amarasekera 9/54) and 96 (Gayana Weerasinghe 66 n.o.; Yenula Dewthusa 5/33, Lahiru Amarasekera 3/41, Damian de Silva 2/7)
St. Joseph’s 350/6 declared (Hirun Kapurubandara 91, Yenula Dewthusa 64, Aveesha Samash 28, Rishma Amarasinghe 120 n.o.; Dimantha Arusha 4/124)

At Mt. Lavinia – First inning win for Nalanda

S. Thomas’ 159 (Mahith Perera 45, Nathan Caldera 43, Darien Marlon 33; Osanda Pamuditha 4/36, Minod Caldera 2/25, Thisara Dewdunu 2/43) and 223/6 (Avinash Fernando 58, Mahith Perera 31, Thisen Eheliyagoda 72 n.o., Nathan Caldera 16 n.o.; Nadul Jayalath 3/40)
Nalanda (109/6 overnight) 214 (Manuga Manmitha 118, Nadul Jayalath 16, Sadew Samarasinghe 15, Manasa de Silva 15; Ashen Perera 2/31, Yatindra Siriwardena 2/59)

At Katunayake – First inning win for St. Joseph Vaz

Zahira Colombo 248 (Mohamed Ijaz 100, Salman Refai 77, Ranidu Malith 23; Janith Fernando 3/68, Tharindu Eshan 2/17, Suhanda Fernando 2/26) and 99 (Mohamed Ijaz 50; Dominic Fernando 4/20, Janith Fernando 4/21)
St. Joseph Vaz Wennappuwa 255/9 declared (Vishwa Rajapakse 63, Dasun Perera 37, Suhanda Fernando 30, Kavith Fernando 22, Tharindu Eshan 31 n.o.; Tharusha Navodya 5/58, Abdul Rahuman 2/45) and 120/8 (Abdul Majid 51; YohanAloka 3/31)