St. Peters College Colombo managed to secure an emphatic innings win over Maris Stella Negambo a short while ago in Bambalapitiya.
The Petes with the help of their skippers ton on day one made sure that they made use of the advantage by claiming an innings and 8 run win. The visitors batting from their overnight score of 89 runs for 6 wickets could only muster up 124 runs in their first innings with Prasansala Jayamanne scoring 36 runs after continuing from his overnight score of 24*.
Right arm pacie Chemila Obeysekera’s fifer rocked Maris Stella as he made it difficult to bat with his seaming deliveries. Left arm leg spinner Julian de Zylva who has been amongst the wickets for St. Peter’s this season gave a helping hand claiming 4 wickets for 30 runs.
Maris Stella were then forced to follow-on and they managed just 6 runs more in their 2nd innings ending on 130 all out. Vihanga Ravishanka who batted well in the first innings scored 26 runs while Shehan Fernando ended as the highest scorer, making 34 runs.
For the host’s it was the same bowling combination of Chemila Obeysekera and Zulian de Zylva who claimed the wickets with the former claiming 3 and De Zylva capturing a fifer. The duo between them captured 17 wickets during the match.
Scores in Brief
St. Peters College 1st innings 262/8 dec in 56 over’s (Shehan Fernando 44, Lahiru Milantha 59, Dushan Hemantha 101, Rajindu Peiris 3/39, Ruvin Sinaiya 3/61, Dilan Gamage 2/55)
Maris Stella College 1st innings 89/6 overnight and 124 all out in 46.4 over’s (Vihanga Ravishanka 32, Prasansala Jayamanne 36, Ruvin Sinnaiya 16, Julian De Zylva 4/30, Chamila Obeysekera 5/34)
Maris Stella College 2nd innings 130 all out in 32 over’s (Vihanga Ravishanka 26, Shehan Fernando 34, Ashen Madava 21, Chemila Obeysekera 3/27, Julian de Zylva 5/19)
Match result – St. Peters win by an innings and 8 runs
