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St. Aloysius’ fight back to win as Kalana takes seven wickets
Under 19 Cricket
by Reemus Fernando
In a rare piece of new-ball bowling left-arm paceman Kalana Pathum picked up seven wickets to rattle St. Benedict’s for 47 runs as St. Aloysius’ fought back to record five wickets victory in the Under 19 cricket encounter at Kotahena on Tuesday.
St. Aloysius’ had a first innings deficit of 45 runs but after Pathum dismissed the home team for scanty 47 runs they had a target of just 93 runs to chase. He was on a hat trick twice.
Visitors were troubled early in their run chase by Mewan Dissanayake. They lost wickets at regular intervals but the sixth wicket pair of Vidura Lakshan and Induwara Udena posted an unbroken stand of 56 runs to seal the victory with more than a session to spare. Udena was aggressive as he hammered four sixes in his unbeaten 40 which came in 36 balls.
At Colts ground, Randul Samarahewa top scored with 85 runs for Dharmasoka to record a fist innings win over Lumbini.
Despite a six wicket haul by Sajitha Vithanage, Richmond managed to take first innings honours against Nalanda at Dombagoda as they posted 165 runs in 67 overs against Nalanda’s 158 runs for which they consumed 99 overs.
At Uyanwatta, Devapathiraja forced St. Thomas’ to follow on as they restricted the home team to 97 runs in the first innings.
At Kandana, put to bat, De Mazenod were rocked by Venusha Akash who took early wickets to place them wobbling at three wickets down for nine runs. Later they slumped further to be placed five wickets down for 47 runs before Sithum Fernando (55), Thareen Sanketh (41) and Maleesha Mihishan (31n.o.) made useful contributions for them to recover.
Match Details
St. Aloysius’ beat St. Benedict’s by
five wickets at Kotahena
Scores:
St. Benedict’s
151 all out in 46.2 overs (Sheron Kannangara 43, Arshan Joseph 23, Kojitha Himsara 24; Kalana Pathum 2/19, Dumindu Naveen 2/31, Induwara Udena 2/23, Kavindu Kesara 3/24) and 47 all out in 19.2 overs (Kalana Pathum 7/21, Dumindu Naveen 2/12)
St. Aloysius’
106 all out in 47 overs (Charya Paranavithana 20, Oshanda Devinda 30; Chamath Chathurya 2/22, Vihara Aththanayake 2/26, Mewan Dissanayake 2/23) and 94 for 5 in 23.2 overs (Vidura Lakshan 31n.o., Induwara Udena 40n.o.; Mewan Dissanayake 4/49)
Samarahewa shines for Dharmasoka
at Colts ground
Scores:
Lumbini
171 all out in 61.2 overs (Dhanitha Sandeth 26, Yasiru Yugath 47, Pasindu Mahisha 15, Malith Kawindu 18; Pathum Malitha 5/35, Chanaka Jananga 3/49, Senitha Halambage 2/26) and 117 for 7 decl. in 47.4 overs (Pasindu Mahisha 52; Pathum Malitha 3/19, Senitha Halambage 2/31)
Dharmasoka
28 for no loss overnight 195 all out in 56.3 overs (Randul Samarahewa 85, Chanuka de Silva 39; Dumindu Sewmina 2/38, Malith Kawindu 4/15) and 25 for no loss in 3 overs (Randul Samarahewa 21n.o.)
Richmond take first innings honours against Nalanda at Dombagoda
Scores:
Nalanda
158 all out in 99 overs (Rusiru Vilochana 29, Eranga Jayakody 33; Malsha Tharupathi 6/45) and 121 for 3 in 43 overs (Rusiru Vilochana 66n.o., Sadew Samarasinghe 29; Yuri Koththigoda 2/39)
Richmond
165 all out in 66.4 overs (Tharinda Nirmal 31, Kavindu Nirmana 21, Sharon Abhishek 39, Maheesha de Silva 33; Sajitha Vithanage 6/61)
Devapathiraja take major honours at
drawn encounter at Matara
Scores:
Devapathiraja
230 for 3 overnight 277 for 9 decl. in 75.3 overs (Sandaru Theekshana 97, Pawan Sandesh 25, Dinitha Prabanka 30, Jeewaka Shashen 89; Bhanuka Insamal 3/64, Navija de Seram 4/80)
St. Thomas’
97 all out in 38.4 overs (Shashindu Jayasekara 18; Pathum Shaminda 3/29, Irushka Thimira 5/21) and 126 for 2 in 34 overs (Dumindu Sakshara 31, Abdul Maajid 34, Pesandu Sanjan 39n.o.;
Middle order fight back after Akash trouble De Mazenod at Kandana
Scores:
De Mazenod
175 for 7 in 66 overs (Neshan Dias 23, Sithum Fernando 55, Thareen Sanketh 41, Maleesha Mihishan 31n.o.; Venusha Akash 3/28)
Royal
St. Anthony’s take upper hand against Thurstan at Katugastota
Scores:
St. Anthony’s
234 all out in 64.1 overs (Thisara Ekanayake 63, Lahiru Abeysinghe 26, Ravindu Kapukotuwa 65, Janith Rathnasiri 26; Gagana Perera 3/27, Thanuga Palihawadana 3/49)
Thurstan
65 for 5 in 31 overs (Charuka Ekanayake 2/07)
Pulisha Thilakarathne top scored with 89 runs and held the top order batting together as Trinity scored first innings points and took major honours in the Ranil Abeynayake Memorial Trophy cricket encounter at BRC ground on Wednesday.
Trinity took a first innings lead of over 50 runs and declared their innings with two wickets in hand to find Thomians doing better in the second essay.
Jayden Amaraweera was in the forefront of the Thomian revival in the second innings as he scored his second half century of the match. Aaron Kodituwakku missed a second half century by five runs.
For Trinity, Mahendra Abeysinghe and Dinal Fernando were the others to make contributions with over 40 runs, while Aadham Hilmy made 32.
Scores:
S. Thomas’ 189 all out in 77.4 overs
(Aaron Kodituwakku 72, Jaden Amaraweera 50, Shanil Perera 37n.o.; Kanika Anthony 5/66, Dinal Fernando 3/34) and 182 for 5 in 53 overs (Jaden Amarawera 68, Aaron Kodituwakku 45;
Chaniru Senarathne 2/44)
Trinity 54 for 1 overnight 246 for 8 decl. in 58.2 overs (Pulisha Thilakarathne 89, Mahendra Abeysinghe 44, Dinal Fernando 45, Adam Hilmy 32; Abheeth Paranawidana 4/95, Gimhan Mendis 3/41) (RF)
Blue jerseys on the backs of a teeming crowd along the Walajah Road on Thursday evening will finally not be out of context. Fans in Chennai have embraced every team that has set foot in the city and played at the iconic venue, turning up in tens of thousands even for sweltering afternoon matches here. But India are finally in town, with everything riding on their fixture.
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South Africa vs West Indies: Clash of heavyweights in another high-stakes battle in Ahmedabad
Is the ICC’s Super Eight the silliest qualifying process in the sporting universe? The unfathomable permutations of UEFA’s rejigged Champions League might beg otherwise. But it’s surely in a club of two.
After precisely two completed fixtures in an impressively sub-standard Group 2 of this T20 World Cup, we already knew our first semi-finalists … and even England themselves might be wondering how on earth they are still pointing in the right direction after their endless flirtations with catastrophe.
Over in Ahmedabad, however, there’s significantly more jeopardy brewing in Group 1. West Indies and South Africa, the two remaining unbeaten teams in the tournament, are gearing up for a heavyweight clash of the most literal variety, but even after they’ve finished battering seven bells out of each other, the victors will have no gurantees of progression just yet.
For West Indies, in particular, this feels like a must-win contest. They could hardly have laid out a more emphatic marker than their 107 run win over Zimbabwe on Monday. But, even allowing for that hefty NRR boost, a wounded India await as their final Super Eight fixture on Sunday. If that ends up being a straight knockout, then it’d be best to lay the killer blow here and now.
West Indies certainly have the form and the focus to do so. But, thrillingly, so do their opponents. In a tournament marked by reticence from a host of likely contenders, West Indies and South Africa have both been refreshingly route-one in their approach. Shimron Hetmyer’s 85 from 34 balls against Zimbabwe may have been the apogee of attacking batting in the tournament to date, but it was merely a continuation of the pedal-to-metal approach that enabled his team to out-muscle England by 13 sixes to six in their statement victory in Kolkata a fortnight ago.
South Africa, similarly, have not been backward in coming forward. India must have thought their last contest was in the bag when Jasprit Bumrah reprised his Barbados impact to reduce them to 20 for 3 after four overs at this same venue. They reckoned without a relentlessly aggressive middle order of Dewald Brevis, David Miller and Tristan Stubbs, who kept piling into the breach to produce a total of 187 for 7 that Marco Jansen soon proved to be more than enough to defend. A win on Thursday will almost certainly place South Africa in the semis, unless India lose all three games in the Super Eight.
More such bravery will be the requirement on Thursday. On a localised level, it’s thrilling to have such a high-stakes encounter at this stage of the competition. In reality, though, each of the tournament’s three likeliest winners would appear to have been crammed into the same under-sized pool. It’s sink-or-risk-being-sunk time at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
With 11 wickets at 12.18 – including eight in his last two outings, at this very venue, against New Zealand and India – Marco Jansen has the form and the method to make another statement impact for his team. Five of those wickets came in the powerplay – three against New Zealand, though they used his pace and bounce against him in between whiles, and two against India, who were never allowed to rally after his first-ball extraction of Tilak Varma. Every team craves a rangy left-arm seamer in this format, and Jansen’s combinations of angle, accuracy and steepling bounce mark him out as one of the very best.
If West Indies are to win, their batters need to keep swinging with the freedom and confidence that has brought them this far already. And no-one epitomises their current mood better than Shimron Hetmyer. With 219 runs at 54.75, he is the tournament’s second-highest run-scorer, behind Sahibzada Farhan’s tally of 283. In terms of pure six-hitting, his tally of 17 puts him way out on his own. If his game can sometimes seem too loose to function consistently, then it is entirely in keeping with West Indies’ mighty T20I heritage, including his 2016 forebears who counted almost exclusively in boundaries as they powered to their second world title, here on Indian soil, a decade ago.
No obvious reasons for West Indies to tinker with their winning formula, although Roston Chase’s offspin could be a consideration, especially with the significant core of left-handers in South Africa’s batting ranks. He would also add further depth to the batting line-up.
West Indies (probable): Brandon King, Shai Hope (capt & wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Jason Holder, Matthew Forde, Akeal Hosein / Roston Chase, Gudakesh Motie, Shamar Joseph.
The team that took on India was the strongest that South Africa could have put out, and for such a crunch contest, there’s no reason to think they’ll fiddle with their options.
South Africa (probable): Aiden Markram (capt), Quinton de Kock (wk), Ryan Rickelton, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi.
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