‘Mini Battle’ ends in a draw

Dilwin Mendis - Mroatuwa sports correspondent

The ‘Mini Battle’ between Thurstan College under 19 ‘A’ and Isipatana Vidyalya under 19 ‘A’ team ended in a team draw. Thurstan batting first scored 101 runs and the top score was made by Sahan Dasanayake and in reply Pathamians declared at 135 for 9 with Praneeth Dias scoring 25 runs and send Wijesinghe and Ayesh Weeratne claimed 3 for 30 and 3 for 24 respectively.

In their second essay Thurstanites bounced back and Aruna Gunawardena was unbeaten on 53 runs and Pimira Jayasinghe made 40 and Thurstan declared at 185 for 9 Yemoesh Munasinghe had a good spell of 5 for 79.

At the end of day two Isipatana were 58 for 5 2ith Dinesh Perera scoring 40 runs.

Thurstan College – 101 ( Sahan Dasanayake 32, Arjuna Gunawardena 26, Yoemesh Ranasinghe 3/31, Mohamed Sardharkan 2/18, Dushan Perera 2/22 and 185/9 dec Arjuan Gunawardena 53, n/o, Timira jayasinghe 40, Sahan Dasanayake 20, Sajith Gunatilleke, 29, Yeomesh Munasinghe 5/79, Momomed Sardharkan 2/43).

Ispiathana – 135/9 dec (Bathiya Liyanarachchi 23, Praneeth Dias 25, Senal Wijesinghe 3/30, Ayesh Weeratne 3/234, Pramod Gunawardena 3/234 and 58/5 – Dinesh Perera 40, Timira Jayasinghe 2/2).