Sri Lanka News Round-up

The Daily News
15 December 1998



Moratu MV draw with St. Servatius

Dilwin Mendis

Moratu Vidyalaya drew their inter-school cricket match played with St. Servatius College, Matara recently. St. Servatius batting first were all out for 143 runs. W. D. P. Botheju and I. Dinuka made 34 runs each and Lakruwan Fernando bagged 3 for 45.

Scores:

St. Servatius 143 (W. D. P. Botheju 34, I. Dinuka 34, Lakruwan Fernando 3/45, Shammi Dissanayake 2/8 and 150 (V. S. S. Mendis 61 not out, N. S. Samarajeeva 33, P. Fernando 3/20, Chamara Dilruk 3/33).

Moratu Vidyalaya 181 for 5 (Manoj Deshapriya 68, Lakruwan Fernando 44, A. T. Binara 2/54 and 39 for 3).

Prince of Wales easily

Dilwin Mendis

Prince of Wales College beat Lalith Athulathmudali Vidyalaya, Mt. Lavinia by 96 runs in their inter-school under-13 division three knockout cricket tournament match for the Horlicks Trophy played at Moratuwa.

Cambrians batting first scored 186 runs with D. L. Mahesh and Supun Fernando scoring 33 and 32 runs respectively. M. Nalinda bagged 2 for 13.

Scores:

Prince of Wales 186 (D. L. Mahesh 33, Supun Fernando 32, Damith Sanjeewa 27, Maduranga Perera 23, M. Nalinda 2/13).

Lalith Athulathmudali Vidyalaya 90 (Surendra 26 n.o., Sanjaya 24).

NCC victorious

NCC defeated Bloomfield by seven wickets in their BCCSL Division three limited over cricket tournament match played at Maitland Place recently.

Scores:

NCC: 209 for 7 in 50 overs (P.Abeygunasekera 42, I.Gunasena 41, P.Niroshan 35, J.Pradeep 35, B.Mendis 2 for 33, D.Dayaratne 2 for 39)

Bloofield: 167 (P.Hedigalle 45, B.Mendis 30, R.Samarakoon 20, K.Darshana 5 for 22, G.Elvitigala 2 for 37).


Source: The Daily News