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Under 19 Cricket :Charuka, Thisara shine as St. Anthony’s record innings win
Spinners Charuka Ekanayake and Thisara Ekanayake took bowling honours as St. Anthony’s College beat Thurstan by an innings and 32 runs in the Under 19 Division I cricket encounter at Katugastota on Wednesday.
In reply to St. Anthony’s 234 runs, Thurstan were bowled out for 88 runs as left-arm spinner Charuka picked up six wickets. His impressive figures read 10.2-5-15-6.
Following on, Thanuga Palihawadana and Vihas Thewmika were the only batsmen to make contributions of note as Thisara took five wickets to restrict them to 114 runs.
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
88 all out in 41.2 overs (Kaushala Balasooriya 18; Kaveesha Piyumal 2/25, Charuka Ekanayake 6/15) and 114 all out in 58.1 overs (Thanuga Palihawadana 20, Vihas Thewmika 31; Kaveesha Piyumal 2/21, Senura Abeysekara 2/19, Thisara Ekanayake 5/37)