The 93rd Battle of the Maroons encounter played between Ananda College and Nalanda College ended in a draw today (05th March) at SSC Grounds, Colombo.
Ananda College resumed their first innings on day two at 65/1 but they lost one of the overnight batters Ashinsa Nainayake for 16 runs in the morning session.
Wickets continued to fall for Ananda after Nainayake-Livera partnership was broken. They witnessed a major batting collapse losing 5 wickets for 63 runs being restricted to 128/6.
However, Ananda No.5 batter Kithma Sithmal stepped up on the big occasion to deliver a masterclass rescuing his side. The 14-year old Sithma stroked 90 runs off 184 balls with 10 fours as Ananda College posted a respectable score – 235 on the board for their first innings.
Janula Indusara and Minod Caldera starred with the ball for Nalanda College sharing 3 wickets each.
Nalanda College began their second essay with the bat 45 runs ahead and scored 121 runs for 5 wickets before declaring the innings, setting a target of 167 runs to win for Ananda College. Kaveesha Mendis had a memorable big match debut for Ananda College as he managed to pick up a match bag of 5 wickets for 95 runs.
Ananda College were 22 runs for 2 wickets when umpires called stumps for the day.
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