Bandarawela Thomians qualify for 2nd round

Badulla Sports Correspondent

14 June 1998


ST. THOMAS' College Bandarawela emerged Badulla District champions and qualified for the second round in their under 15 Horlicks Trophy cricket tournament when they beat Dharmadutha College, Badulla played recently at the Badulla Esplanade. D. N. Jayasooriya once again excelled with his bat and scored 74 runs and enabled STC Bandarawela to declare their innings at 219 for 5. Jayasooriya also scored a century against STC Gurutalawa. In reply, Dharmadutha were able to score 157 with Gihan Indika once again top scoring for the side with 64 runs.

Batting for the second time, it looked like STC were going to lose the game when they were 16 for 6 wickets, but Sashika Pandula (30) came to the rescuer and at close of play they were 87 for 8.

STC Bandarwela 219 for 5 (Romesh Karunrnyake 22, D. N. Jayasooriya 74, Asanga Wijesinghe 55, Isuru Fernando 27) and 87 for 8 (Sashika Pandula 30, D. J. Jayasooriya 13 n.o., M. Shifan 14, Eranga Gihan 3 for 21, Ashard Mohamed 2 for 16).

Dharmadutha College 157 (Nandana Sampath 21, Gihan Indika 64, Sampath Senadeera 3 for 30, D. N. Jayasooriya 2 for 5).


Source: The Daily News

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