Under 13 cricket - Division 1

Avisha, Rahal guide Ananda into second round:

Two brilliant century run partnerships by Avisha Wilwalaarachchi and Rahal Fernando helped Ananda College, Colombo to gain two easy wins over Gurukula College, Kelaniya and Sri Jayawardenepura college, Kotte in their Under 13-Division 1 tournament matches played recently at Ragama and Ananda Mw.

Ananda college have booked a place in the second round with these two wins and have already realized four 1st innings wins by earlier beating Ananda Sastralaya and Basilica College. Due to bad weather the match against D S Senanayake ended as no decision with DS badly placed at 33 for 3.

Against Gurukula College, Avisha and Rahal engage in an entertaining partnership of 138 runs with Rahal contributing 80 and Avisha scoring an unbeaten 65.

Both continued to dominate the proceedings against Sri Jayewardenepura College as well by adding 102 runs in a more responsible manner to see them through after some anxious movements.

D Themiya of Gurukula College scored twin 50s to give their score some respectability.

Chief scores

Gurukula College 1st innings 129 all out

(D Themiya 54. D Mahesh 24: N Fransisco 3 for 41, D Jayalath 2 for 28)

and 106 for 6 at close

(D Themiya 52: N Fransisco 2 for 51, D Jayalath 2 for 23)

Ananda College 1st innings 262 for 4 dec.

(R Fernando 80, A Wilwalaarachchi 65 n.o., N Haggalla 31, E. Wickramasinghe 26)

Sri Jayewardenepura College 1st innings 126 all out

(M Shammi 43, B Ruwan 32: A Wilwalaarachci 2 for 19, N Francisco 2 for 19)

Ananda College 1st Innings 212 all out

(A Wilwalaarachchi 52, R Fernando 41, K Kalpana 3 for 27, T Dilshan 2 for 29, R Ramanayake 2 for 42)