Under 19 Cricket

by Reemus Fernando

Put to bat St. Anthony’s suffered a terrific batting collapse before their tailenders fought back to score 174 runs against Wesley in their Under 19 traditional cricket encounter at Katugastota on Thursday.

Wesley’s Jeewahan Sriram rattled the top three wickets in his second over and Ahamed Al Nahyan and Dinuja Samararatne shared five wickets between them to restrict the home team. Sriram’s opening burst left St. Anthony’s team struggling at 19 for four wickers at one stage. Later they were rescued by the tailenders.

Number nine batsman Ryan Gregory scored a half century before Tharusha Dasun and Dinura  Ganegoda added 51 runs for the last wicket for the home team to reach their eventual total.

Wesley were 64 for two wickets at stumps.Meanwhile, the match between Trinity and Mahanama ended in a draw.

Results

Tailenders fightback for St. Anthony’s at Katugastota.

Scores

St. Anthony’s 174 all out in 46 overs (Januka Rathnayake 17, Dinul Wijesinghe 17, Ryan Gregory 55, Tharusha Dasun 33; Jeewahan Sriram 4/64, Ahamed Al Nahyan 3/36, Dinuja Samararatne 2/33)

Wesley 64 for 2 in 14 overs (Kavindu Amarasinghe 20)

A draw at Asgiriya

Scores:

Mahanama 208 all out in 70 overs (Chamika Heenatigala 87n.o., Eshan Withanage 43, Anuka Wijewardana 31, Venura Kaveethra 20; Malith Rathnayake 6/51, Sethmika Senavirathne 2/18, Ranul Gunaratne 2/31) and 39 for 3 in 20.3 overs (Venura Kaveethra 17; Ranul Gunaratne 2/08)

Trinity 85 for 1 overnight 202 all out in 71 overs (Dimantha Mahavithana 69, Pulisha Thilakarathne 66, Sethmika Senavirathne 24n.o., Chamika Heenatigala 4/27, Anuka Wijewardana 4/56, Nadil Nethmira 2/41)