Match Drawn: 

The Thomians took on the highly reputed Nalandians in Mount Lavinia in their inter school cricket match

Opening batsman Kavindu Perera was also amongst the runs as he compiled a valuable 31. Nalanda in their 1st innings were struggling at 36 for the loss of 4 wickets with Chamod Pathirana and Hemaka Ariyaratne ripping through the top order. The left arm swing bowling of Hemaka and the tight bowling of Chamod was keeping the Nalandians at sea. It was not easy for them as they were forced to work hard for their runs. Nalanda fought back with Dinuk Jayasinghe scoring a match saving 86. The Thomians could not tighten the screws enough as the Nalandians were able to sore 209 runs. Left arm spinner Chamal Fonseka was not up to his usual self but was able to capture 2 vital wickets for 51 runs. The match was headed for a tame draw.

The Thomians batting for the 2nd time struggle to make runs as they lost momentum of the innings slumped to 99 for the loss of 5 wickets. Skipper and top order batsman   Raveenthiraraja Nirushan top scored for the Thomians with a very impressive 39. Chamod Pathirana and Ashen Fernando got valuable time out in the middle as they scored 23* and 19* respectively.
  

•    S. Thomas’

271 for 9 declared (Chamod Pathirana 82, Lalinda Peiris 82, H. Perera 31, Adrian Kerner 24: Nipun Karunanayake 4 for 40, Adeesha Nanayakkara 4 for 76) and

99 for 5 in 32 overs (Ravin Nirushan 39, H. Fernando 23 n.o., Chamod Pathirana 19 n.o.: Adeesha Nanayakkara 3 for 15)

•    Nalanda

(36/4 o’night) 209 in 80.2 overs (Dinuk Jayasinghe 86, Chandimandu Rodrigo 48, Nipun Karunanayake 23, Chethan de Silva 17: Chamod Pathirana 2 for 4, Hemaka Ariyaratne 2 for 21, Lalinda Peiris 2 for 41, Chamal Fonseka 2 for 51)