St. Peter’s College recorded their fifth outright win when they beat Lumbini MV by an innings and 12 runs in the Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Colts Grounds yesterday.
The Peterites who were put into bat scored 244 and declared with Janith Liyanage & Shasheen Fernando scoring half centuries.
The Petes bowlers Julian de Zilva, Sudil Dissanayake and skipper Dushan Hemantha who together shared 9 wickets, succeeded in restricting Lumbini MV to a score of 115 after Lumbini MV put up some resistance with Rasan Mannan who made a fighting knock of 43.
Forced to follow on with a deficit of 129 to erase, Lumbini MV found the going tough and were bundled out for 117 in the second innings with the Pete’s skipper Hemantha finishing with 5 for 28 and Krishan Fernando grabbing 3 for 23.
Chief Scores
St Peter’s 1st Innings – 244 for 9 dec. (Janith Liyanage 58, Shasheen Fernando 57, Lahiru Malintha 42, Chemila Obeysekera 35 n.o.)
Lumbini MV 1st Innings – 115 (Julian de Zilva 4 for 37, Sudil Dissanayake 3 for 10 and Dushan Hemantha 2 for 21) and
Lumbini MV 2nd Innings – 117 (Dushan Hemantha 5 for 28 and Krishan Fernando 3 for 23)
