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Caniston troubles Nalanda
Under 19 Cricket
Gunarathnam Caniston and Charuka Peiris shared seven wickets between them for S. Thomas’ to restrict Nalanda to 215 runs on day one of the Under 19 traditional cricket encounter at Mount Lavinia on Monday.
Deciding to bat first, Nalanda were six wickets down for 96 runs at one stage but half centuries by Eranga Jayakody and Dineth Samaraweera helped them recover to post their eventual total.
Caniston with a four-wicket haul was the pick of the bowlers.
Scores:
Naland
215 all out in 68.2 overs (Rusiru Vilochana 24, Raveen de Silva 20, Eranga Jayakody 51, Dineth Samaraweera 60; Gunarathnam Caniston 4/79, Charuka Peiris 3/34, Janindu Abeygoonawardena 2/21)
S. Thomas’
34 for 1 in 20 overs (Janindu Abeygunawardena 14n.o., Aneesh Kamalachandra 18n.o.)
