Rare feat by Sanka Ramesh

Dilwin MENDIS - Moratuwa sports corr

Moratu Vidyalaya allrounder Sanka Ramesh who has already 1,181 runs under his belt, became the first schoolboy cricketer among schools in the island to achieve a very rare feat of scoring one thousand runs and capturing one hundred wickets (103) for the 2010/2011 cricket season including three, ten-wicket and nine, five-wicket hauls when he claimed 5 for 116 against Mahanama College, Colombo in their inter-school under 19 cricket match worked off at Moratuwa.

Ramesh who achieved this rare double in his sixteenth match is a right hand bat and a right arm leg spinner who turned out for Singhalese Sports Club for the second successive year in the under 23 premier cricket tournament organized by Sri Lanka Cricket and undoubtedly he can be classed as the best all round cricketer among the schools at present.

He is probably the third schoolboy cricketer to join the select band of schoolboy cricketers of scoring one thousand runs and claiming one hundred wickets for a season.

Also he is the first Vidyalian to achieve this hard earned double for his alma-mater in their 75 year old cricket history.

Mahanama College batted first and declared at 327 for 9 with Chatura Wanniarachchci scoring a magnificent 121 runs which included fourteen fours in 266 minutes and facing 182 balls and involving a fifth wicket partnership of 133 runs with Janaka Dananjaya who missed a well deserved century by ten runs. While Pavan Devinda contributed 62 runs.

At the end of day one, Vidyalians were 72 for 3 with Sanka Ramesh unbeaten on 28 runs.

Mahanama College 327 for 9 in 73.5 overs (Chatura Wanniarachchi 121, Janaka Dananjaya 90, Pavan Devinda 62, Dilshan Rusiru 21, Sanka Ramesh 5 for 116, Kalhara Peiris 2 for 32).

Moratu Vidyalaya 72 for 3 (Sanjeeva Liyanage 33, Sanka Ramesh 28 n.o.).