Jayakody steers STC to victory against Cambrians

Dilwin Mendis - Moratuwa Sports Corr.

A match bag of 11 for 30 by N Jayakody enabled St Thomas' College, Bandarawela to beat Prince of Wales' College by 35 runs on first innings in their inter-school under-13 division two second round tournament cricket match worked off at Moratuwa. Visitors batting first were all out for 127 with K Dayawarshan scoring 43 and Dasan Samarasinghe claiming 4 for 16 for the homesters.

Cambrians in reply made 92 and in their second essay visitors declared at 129 for 1 with V Kavindu 63 and N Jayakody unbeaten on 60.

At stumps homesters were struggling with 19 for 5.

STC - 127 (N Jayakody 23, K Dayawarshan 43, Dasan Samarasinghe 4/16, Rashen Fernando 2/12 and 129/1 - V Kavindu 63, N Jayakody 60 n/o).

PWC - 92 (Sachin Fernando 20, N Jayakody 7/27 and 19/5 - N Jayakody 4/3, S Samarakoon 2/14).