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St Peter's playing themselves into a winning position, in having to make 118 runs for victory in twenty overs, lost early wickets due to haste through three run outs and in the end were defending stubbornly at 72 for 8 to draw their cricket encounter against Ananda at Bambalapitiya.

Ananda having to wipe out a first innings deficit of 154 runs their second innings were 92 for 4 at one stage but a superb 116 run fifth wicket partnership between Jitendra Perera and Muthumudalige Pushpakumara and with the tailenders also chipping in Ananda got up to a score of 271, leaving St Peters a target of 118 for victory in 20 overs.

Pushpakumara with 15 fours and one six contributed a valuable 89 for Ananda, while Chryshantha Peiris, Aman Samsudeen and Suranga Pinto bowled well again for St Peters.

With a victory target of 118 runs in 20 overs St Peters lost the initiative through insensible batting to be 72 for 8 and draw the match.

Scores:

St Peters 240 and 72 for 8 (A. Fonseka 14, M. Perera 13, J. Jayasuriya 10, M. Mallawarachchi 2 for 13).

Ananda 86 and 271 (M. Pushpakumara 89, J. Perera 27, D. Bandara 22, L. Chaturanga 20, T. Kandambi 16, S. Bandara 23, A. Ganegama 14, C. Peiris 3 for 61, A. Samsudeen 2 for 53, S. Pinto 2 for 45).