Panadura Royal win

Moratuwa Sports Correspondent

An unbeaten knock of 98 runs which included seven hits to the rope and three over by Dushan Malinga helped Royal College, Panadura to beat Royal College, Moneragala and enter into the quarter finals of the inter-school under 13 division three tournament cricket match played Panadura.

Electing to bat homesters scored 179 for 4 in their alloted fifty overs with a valuable contribution from the skipper Chamath Ariyawickrama who scored 55 runs. In reply Moneragala Royalists were all out for 141 runs with Shakila Banda 48 and Thilina Sudaraka 4 for 28.

Royal, Panadura - 179/4 (Dushan Malinga 98 n/o, Chamath Ariyawickrama 55, Maneesha Neelanduwa 2/9, Damindu Subasinghe 2/43).

Royal, Moneragala - 141 (Shakila Bandara 48, Madava Rathnayake 25, Avishka Dharmasena 21, Thilina Sudaraka 4/28, Vitheekshana Dehan 3/30, Chamath Ariyawickrama 2/18).