Sri Lanka Schools: Peterite-Ananda match ends in exciting draw (18 February 1999)
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
18-Feb-1999
18 February 1999
Sri Lanka Schools: Peterite-Ananda match ends in exciting draw
Richard Dwight
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).
Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)