Dinal 8 wkt haul helps Joes

Left arm paceman Dinal Dhambarage took a match bag of eight wickets for 46 runs to steer St. Joseph's College to a massive innings and 279 run outright victory over Bandaranaike MV in their inter school under 19 cricket tournament match concluded at Darley Road yesterday.

St. Joseph's: 249 and 176 for 6 decl (S. Seneviratne 41, H. Silva 34, S. Weerasinghe 50 n.o, M. Madushan 2 for 30)

Bandaranaike MV: 68 and 78 (A. Asiri 22, D. Nalitha 21, D. Dhambarage 4 for 24, S. Weerasinghe 3 for 21, C Kumara 2 for 11)

Madhuka 8/41 put Petes on top

Off spinner Madhuka Liyanapathirana captured eight wickets for 41 to put President's College on course to an outright victory over Ananda Sastralaya MV on the opening day of their inter school under 19 cricket tournament match which began at Baddegana yesterday.

President's College: 272 (C. Silva 80, D. Perera 64, M. Liyanapathirana 52, A. Heshantha 4 for 73, K. Paranathala 2 for 76, S. Bathiya 3 for 58)

Ananda Sastralaya MV: 143 (T. Karunathunga 44, M. Liyanapathirana 8 for 41, V. Perera 2 for 24) and 7 for no loss

Thurstan trounce Tissa MMV

Chamalka Gamage and Sachintha Wijesinghe shared nine wickets between them as Thurstan College trounced Tissa MMV by eight wickets in their Munchee under 19 limited overs cricket tournament match worked off at Thurstan College grounds yesterday.

Tissa MMV: 115 in 40 overs (L. Niroshan 22, C. Gamage 5 for 18, S. Wijesinghe 4 for 26)

Thurstan: 116 for 2 in 18.1 overs (S. Kamaleen 56 n.o, J. Siyabalapitiya 42)