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Pathum rattles Dharmasoka with a six wicket haul

Under 19 Cricket
by Reemus Fernando
Bandaranayake brothers taking all ten wickets for D.S. Senanayake on a 30-wickets day, St. Benedict’s scoring an innings and 75 runs victory over St. Anne’s and Kalana Pathum ripping through the Dharmasoka batting line up with a six wicket haul were the highlights in the Under 19 Division I cricket encounters played on Wednesday.
Mevan Dissanayake, Chamath Chathurya and Kojitha Himsara reaped rich hauls of wickets for St. Benedict’s to record a huge victory over St. Anne’s in the Tier ‘A’ match at Kotahena. The result will ensure the Bens a top spot in the points table. The team from Kurunegala will have a huge task ahead after their second consecutive outright defeat as they are ranked last in their group.
Thirty wickets fell on day one at D.S. Senanayake College ground and the home team will have a day to chase a target of 103 runs against De Mazenod. For the home team Bandaranayake brothers Adhisha and Randisha shared all ten wickets to fall in the second innings.
At Ambalangoda, St. Aloysius’ dominated day one proceedings as paceman Kalana Pathum ripped through the batting line up of Dharmasoka with a six wicket haul. He took six wickets for 11 runs to contain the home team to 73 runs.
Match results
St. Benedict’s record innings win over St. Anne’s at Kotahena
Scores:
St. Benedict’s
300 all out in 65.3 overs (Viduneth Wilson 58, Sheron Kannangara 53, Sharujan Shanmuganathan 53, Shenel Samarathunga 49, Aarshan Joseph 22; Geethika de Silva 4/52, Manaan Muzammil 3/63, Kalindu Wijesinghe 2/32)
St. Anne’s
62 for 4 overnight 150 all out in 49.4 overs (Buddima Sahan 24, Manaan Muzammil 48; Kojitha Himsara 3/17, Mevan Dissanayake 5/33) and 75 all out in 24.1 overs (Yomesh Subasinghe 22; Chamath Chathurya 5/12, Kojitha Himsara 2/36, Mevan Dissanayake 3/23)
A high scoring draw at Reid Avenue
Scores:
Royal
378 for 9 decl. in 73 overs (Dasis Manchanayake 200n.o., Uvindu Weerasekara 92, Geeshan Perera 30; Janith Shehan 4/32, Seneshka Nethsara 2/30) and 172 for 7 in 47 overs (Rehan Peiris 32, Dasis Manchanayake 50, Anush Polonowita 21, Geeshan Perera 45; Tharusha Dilsara 2/34, Naradha Kanchana 3/29)
Gurukula
89 for 2 overnight 299 all out in 76.4 overs (Poorna Kalhara 27, Mohomad Mursad 76, Janith Shehan 42, Wageesha Amantha 53, Janith Mihiranga 33n.o.; Ranuka Malaviarachchi 2/65, Ramiru Perera 2/60, Nethwin Dharmarathne 5/70)
Nalanda-Mahinda ends in draw at Campbell Place
Scores:
Nalanda
148 all out in 69.3 overs (Rusiru Vilochana 20, Yasiru Samarakoon 25, Kushmitha Silva 28; Shehan Hasaranga 3/40, Savidya Ranmina 3/27) and 102 for 7 in 46 overs (Rusiru Vilochana 32, Senesh Wijesinghe 34; Arosha Udayanga 3/21)
Mahinda
70 for 1 overnight 215 all out in 89.5 overs (Pramesh Madhubhashana 33, Savidya Ranmina 70, Hiruna Gallage 22, Shehan Hasaranga 22; Osanda Pamuditha 5/51, Janula Indusara 2/10)
Thirty wickets fall on day one at DSS Ground
Scores:
De Mazenod
134 all out in 34.1 overs (Maleesha Mihishan 29, Uvindu Perera 71; Adhisha Bandaranayake 3/24, Randisha Bandaranayaka 2/54, Poorna Sulakshana 3/31) and 68 all out in 21.5 overs (Mishen Sanketh 22n.o.; Adhisha Bandaranayake 4/08, Randisha Bandaranayaka 6/36)
DSS
100 all out in 30.1 overs (Malitha Perera 35; Tharusha Udayanga 4/31, Sithum Fernando 4/13)
Kalana Pathum rips through Dharmasoka batting line up at Ambalangoda
Scores:
Dharmasoka
73 all out in 23.3 overs (Randul Samarahewa 32; Kalana Pathum 6/11) and 54 for 3 in 15 overs (Randul Samarahewa 25)
St. Aloysius’
206 all out in 56.1 overs (Oshada Devinda 33, Bhashana de Silva 23, Induwara Udena 34, Dineth Nimsara 30, Kavindu Kesara 20, Kalana Pathum 34; Pathum Malitha 2/19, Amil Agasthi 2/44, Ishan Anuradha 3/45)
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Rajapaksa, Arshdeep deliver winning start for PBKS

A power-packed, collective performance with the bat set the platform for Punjab Kings’ winning start as they downed Kolkata Knight Riders by seven runs (DLS method) at the PCA stadium in Mohali on Saturday (April 1). Bhanuka Rajapaksa (50 off 32) registered his maiden IPL fifty while Shikhar Dhawan struck a 29-ball 40, and along with useful contributions from the rest of the batters, PBKS posted a formidable 191/5. Andre Russell top-scored for KKR but they lost wickets at regular intervals and eventually fell short of the DLS par score as they finished with 146/7 in 16 overs when rain forced the players off the field.
Brief scores:
Punjab Kings 191/5 in 20 overs (Bhanuka Rajapaksa 50, Shikhar Dhawan 40; Tim Southee 2-54) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 146/7 in 16 overs (Andre Russell 35; Venkatesh Iyer 34; Arshdeep Singh 3-19) by 7 runs (DLS method).
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Ruturaj 92 in vain as Titans win opening game

A brilliant 92 from Ruturaj Gaikwad went in vain as defending champions Gujarat Titans beat Chennai Super Kings in Ahmedabad on Friday (March 31) in the tournament opener. Gaikwad’s innings was nullified to an extent initially by Shubman Gill before a few vital blows towards the end of the game from the Titans middle order got the job done for them with four balls to spare.
Chennai Super Kings 178/7 in 20 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 92; Rashid Khan 2/26, Mohammed Shami 2/29) lost to Gujarat Titans182/5 in 19.2 overs (Shubman Gill 63; Rajvardhan Hangargekar 3/36) by 5 wickets
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Bowlers, Stirling lead Ireland to their first win in Bangladesh in any format

Ireland finally notched a win on their tour of Bangladesh by scoring a seven-wicket win in the final T20I in Chattogram on Friday. Mark Adair led the bowling charge with three wickets as Bangladesh were bowled out for 124, and Paul Stirling, later named Player of the Match, was at his inventive best as he struck a 41-ball 77 to headline the chase. It was Ireland’s first T20I win over Bangladesh since 2009 and their first win in any format in the country.
Bangladesh had already taken the series after winning the first two games earlier in the week, and made two changes, perhaps to try out alternatives. Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Mustafizur Rahman went out; Rishad Hossain was handed a debut and Shoriful Islam made a comeback. It was the batting that came unstuck, though.
After opting to bat, Bangladesh were 61 for 7 in nine-and-a-half overs. Shamim Hossain, however, scored his first international half-century, making 51 off 42 balls with five fours and two sixes to give them a competitive 124. One of those sixes was a particularly eye-catching shot, when he reverse-whipped Curtis Campher hit over backward point for six.
But with Stirling in blistering form, and playing a few inventive shots of his own, the chase was done and dusted in 14 overs.Bangladesh’s slide started in the second over. Litton Das’ slash towards deep point against a wide Adair delivery landed in George Dockrell’s lap. It was the first time Bangladesh had lost a wicket in the powerplay after three matches.
Najmul Hossain Shanto was next to go, hitting a slog-sweep off Harry Tector straight to deep midwicket. Campher juggled the catch but clung on. In the next over, Campher himself got a wicket, when Rony Talukdar holed out at deep midwicket.
Towhid Hridoy and Shakib Al Hasan, however, went for their shots in keeping with Bangladesh’s new approach, and hit a couple of big ones, but both were gone in the space of three balls. Shakib was caught at short midwicket mistiming a pull off Adair, while Hridoy holed out off Ben White in the seventh over
Matthew Humphreys had two wicketless ODIs in Sylhet, but the left-arm spinner had a better start to his T20I career. He took a wicket off his first ball when he yorked Rishad for 8.
That made him the first Ireland bowler to take a wicket with his first ball in T20Is. This was, however, not the first time a debutant had done this against Bangladesh. Previously, Rory Kleinveldt, Pragyan Ojha, Lockie Ferguson and Cole McConchie have all achieved the feat.
Humphreys added his second off his third ball, when Taskin Ahmed was caught at deep midwicket for a duck.Shamim and Nasum Ahmed added 33 runs for the eighth wicket before Nasum was caught in the covers off Gareth Delany’s legspin. Adair took his third when he removed Shoriful, before Fionn Hand took Shamim’s wicket in the final over.
Stirling didn’t get going at the start, as there were two early wickets, of Ross Adair and Lorcan Tucker, but once he was set, there was no stopping him. He cut and swept Shakib for fours to kickstart the chase, and then deposited Hasan Mahmud’s half-tracker for his first six next over. No bowler escaped his wrath, or his inventiveness, as he hit ten fours and four sixes in his 41-ball innings.
Many of those came in one Shoriful over, the 11th of the innings, when he pulled a six and hit three fours to take 20 runs. Rishad put an end to the mayhem when he had Stirling caught at long-on in the 13th over – it was Stirling’s 22nd half-century in T20Is and Rishad’s first international wicket – but Campher closed out the chase with a four and a six off Taskin.
Brief scores:
Ireland 126 for 3 (Stirling 77, Campher 16*, Tector 14*, Rishad 1-19) beat Bangladesh 124 (Shamim 51, Adair 3-25, Humphreys 2-10) by seven wickets
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