Under 19 Division I Cricket

‎ Off-spinner Nushan Perera created a piece of history for St. Joseph’s and Damesh Mathishan and Reshon Soloman took honours in their respective matches as St. Joseph’s, Darley Road and St. Joseph Vaz’s College Wennappuwa recorded victories in the Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ and ‘B’ tournament matches played during the weekend.

‎According to St. Joseph’s statisticians Nushan became the first bowler in their more than 100 year old cricket history to take back to back eight wicket hauls in a first XI match when he achieved the feat in their match against St. Servatius’ College Matara at Darley Road.

‎Nushan’s personal milestone coincided with the Joes’ first outright victory as they cruised to an innings and two runs victory against St. Servatius’.

‎Nushan’s heroics reduced St. Servatius’ to 122 and 112 in the two innings. In the batting department only Dilpa Ruwanaka scored a half century, while Aveesha Samash (38), Pamoda Dalpadado (48), Chethina Kavinda (31) and Nushan Perera (21n.o.) made notable contributions.

‎St. Joseph Vaz’s registered their first outright victory on their return to the Division I category on Saturday. The main contribution came from Damesh Mathishan who completed a match bag of ten wickets.

‎They beat De Mazenod by six wickets after restricting the latter to 70 runs in the second innings. For Damesh, it was the second time he took a match bag of ten wickets this season. His first match bag of ten wickets was against Wesley. Following his match bag of ten wickets they were chasing a target of 116 runs against Wesley and were six runs short of victory with one wicket in hand when the match ended.

‎The boys from Wennappuwa have started off well this season after having earned their return to the top devision. They have completed four matches by now while some schools are yet to commence the season.

‎At Katugastota, S. Thomas’ Mount Lavinia did well to post 254 for five wickets declared as Reshon Soloman (104n.o.) and Aaron de Silva put on an unfinished stand of over hundred runs for the fifth wicket. In reply St. Anthony’s were bowled out for 191 runs.

‎‎Match Results

‎St. Joseph’s record outright win against St. Servatius’ at Darley Road

‎‎Scores:

‎St. Servatius’ 122 all out in 36 overs (Risinu Kithmuka 32, Chamod Mihiranga 51; Nushan Perera 8/36) and 112 all out in 39.3 overs (Mohomad Shihab 20, Chamod Mihiranga 29; Nushan Perera 8/30)

‎St. Joseph’s 236 for 9 decl. in 61.1 overs (Aveesha Samash 38, Pamoda Dalpadado 48, Dilpa Ruwanaka 58, Chethina Kavinda 31, Nushan Perera 21n.o.; Muhammadu Sadhik 2/67, Binal Nethmaka 3/55)

‎‎S. Thomas’ on first innings win at Katugastota

‎Scores

‎S. Thomas’ 254 for 5 decl. in 80 overs (Avinash Fernando 29, Ludeesha Matarage 41, Reshon Soloman 104n.o., Aaron de Silva 44n.o.; Dasun Welianga 2/73, Imeth Rajapaksha 2/51) and 49 for no loss in 11.3 overs

‎St. Anthony’s 191 all out in 57 overs (Shanuka Kalpana 36, Sisal Hemaka 57, Praveen Gamage 26, Ryan Gregory 20; Abheeth Paranawidana 4/51, Aaron de Silva 5/48)

‎‎St. Joseph Vaz’s beat De Mazenod at Kandana

‎Scores

‎De Mazenod 137 all out in 70.2 overs (Shanon Silva 23, Binal Mendis 27, Sineth Induwara 25; Damesh Mathishan 6/41) and 70 all out in 29.3 overs (Ushan Adithya 20; Damesh Mathishan 4/28, Amal Denuwan 3/13)

‎St. Joseph Vaz’s 151 all out in 46.3 overs (Sasmitha Fernando 41, Thathnula Liyanage 25; Sharith Sudeena 4/36, Sasmith Hanzes 3/25) and 57 for 4 in 8.5 overs (Sharith Sudeena 2/22, Sasmith Hanzes 2/23)‎

by Reemus Fernando