Sri Lanka Daily News round up (6 June 1997)

Friday 06, June 1997

SRI LANKA SPORTS NEWS AT-A-GLANCE

Compiled by Dinesh Weerawansa

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* Dharmaraja College beat St. Anthony's College, Katugastota on first innings in an under-17 Singer Trophy schools cricket match played at Kandy.

Dharmaraja, batting first, made 231 for 9 with Ravi Peiris 55, N. Marappana 49 making the main contributions. P. Pinnaduwa 3 for 75, K. Jayaratne 2 for 26 shared the bowling honours for the Antonians. St. Anthony's were bowled out for 230 with N. Liyanage making a top score of 80. N. Marappana had 5 for 51.

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* The visiting Thomians have thrashed everyone that came their way since their arrival here in late last month. In their first game against a school side they trounced the well-known public school Haberdashers. When batting first they declared after having amassed the huge score of 320 for the loss of 6 wickets in 48 overs. Displaying some splendid strokes R. Fernando hammered 117 while C. Goonawardena (64), J. Siriwardena (48) and B. Karunaratna (41) also made useful contributions.

Haberdashers had absolutely no chance against the intelligent bowling of R. Fernando (4/13), S. Peiris (3/28) and N. Ratwatte (2/13) and managed only 109 runs in their 55 overs. In their last match against a Northants `Under 19' side the Thomians won by 100 runs. Once again R. Fernando treated the Sunday crowd at this rural village green with some hectic hitting scoring 91. C. Goonawardena (89) and J. Siriwardena (61) batted extremely well with U. Fernando stroking a handy 48 runs. Northants totalled 251 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in their 50 overs. The major wicket takers for the thomians were P. Perera (2/29) and R. Mahapatona (2/16).

* The visiting S.Thomas' College cricket team arrived in Birmingham to witness the first Ashes Test which starts today.

Last Monday they visited Alton Towers, one of Britain's best known amusement parks and on yesterday, the Thomians spent the whole day in Shakespeare land - Stratford - upon Avon where they visited the birthplace and home of Shakespeare. On Thursday they will watch the first Test between England and Australia at Edgbaston.

* The Nalanda Vidyalaya OBA defeated St. Anthony's OBA in a close final to lift the coveted Festival of Cricket trophy organised by the Sri Lanka OBAs at Norman Park, Bromley, Kent, England.

In their allotted 10 overs, St. Anthony's scored 20 and chasing the target, Nalanda scored the winning run in the last ball of the match. Man of the Match for Nalanda was Sanduna Kapugeekiyana. The event which is probably the single largest gathering of Sri Lankans outside of Sri Lanka (about 3000 attended) saw 16 teams from major schools in Colombo, Galle and Kandy participating. The tournament saw 16 teams were divided into 4 groups participating. In group `A' were the eventual winners Nalanda, Richmond, St. Aloysius, and Wesley. In group `B' were St. Thomas (the defending Champions),Trinity, Royal and St. Peters. In Group `C' were St. Anthony's (this years runners up), Ananda, Isipathana, and St. Sebastians. In Group `D' were St. Joseph's, Mahinda, Zahira and St. Benedicts.

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