Panadura Royal take under 17 cricket title

Dilwin Mendis - Moratuwa Sports Corr

Royal College, Panadura emerged all island under 17 division one inter school cricket champions when they trounced formidable and more fancied Ananda College, Colombo by two wickets and the final encounter was worked off at Bloomfield grounds, Colombo. Ananda were skittled out for a paltry 103 runs in 38.3 overs with Sucheera Paranavithane and Adeesha de Silva scoring 34 and 27 runs respectively. Rusiru Ravishanka claimed 3 for 23 while Vimukthi Madushan and Kalana Chaturanga took two scalps each.

In reply Panadura Royalists notched up the required score for the loss of eight wickets with Damindu Ashan making the top score of 25 runs and two valuable contributions coming off the bats of Pavan Edirisinghe 21 and Madava Nimesh 20. Senal Korale had a splendid bowling spell of 5 for 23 for the losers.

Ananda College – 103 in 38.3 overs (Adeesha de Silva 27, Sucheera Paranavithana 34, Vimukthi Madushan 2/14, Rusiru Ravishanka 3/23, Kalana Chaturanga 2/22).

Royal Panadura – 104/8 in 35.5 overs (Damindu Ashan 25, Madava Nimesh 20, Pavan Edirisinghe 21, Lakpriya Dananjaya 17, Senal Korale 5/23, Nishan Bandaranayake 2/18).