Cambrians win on first innings

Dilwin Mendis

Two fine allround performances by Buddhika de Alwis (74 and 4 for 30 and Shehan Jayasuriya 78 and 4 for 57) enabled Prince of Wales' College to beat formidable Thurstan College, Colombo by 117 runs on first innings in their inter school under 19 cricket match played at Moratuwa.

Continuing on at 32 for no loss in reply to homesters total of 291 visitors were all out for 174 and only resistance came off the bat of Prabodha Arthavidu who scored 38 runs.

Following on Thurstanites were in a bad way with 106 for 6 when bad light stopped play at 4.45 p.m.

Prince of Wales - 291 (Nipun Peiris 23, Shehan Jayasuirya 78, Buddhika de Alwis 74, Nuwantha Peiris 66, Sampath Dharmasiri 28, Ranga Wijewickrama 2/39, Sajith Dias 2/24, Shehan Kamaleen 4/75).

Thurstan - (32/0 overnight) 174 - (Udara Munasinghe 25, Supun Navarathne 23, Kavin Tharindu 28, Prabodha Arthavidu 38, Buddhika de Alwis 4/30, Shehan Jayasuriya 4/57, Nipun Peiris 2/45 and 100/6 (Shehan Kamaleen 28, Supun Navarathne 22, Jehan Javed 29, Isuru Thilina 2/2.)