Defending champions Royal College and Wesley College advanced to the semi-finals in the Under-15 Division One schools cricket tournament.
Royal won on the first inning against St. Sylvester’s College Kandy and Wesley won on the first inning against St. Joseph Vaz College in the quarter-finals.
Dushen Udawela, skipper of Royal shone as an all-rounder against St. Sylvester’s claiming 5 wickets for 4 runs and scored 83 runs.
Scores:
St. Sylvester’s: 49 (Dushen Udawela 5/4, Dhihas Nanayakkarawasam 2/7) and 16/2 (Mudith Gunasekara 2/14)
Royal: 202/5 (Dushen Udawela 83, Thumindu Somasiri 32, Nithesh Jayasinghe 31, Manuth Dassanayake 20)
Wesley: 193 (Budvin Haradasa 36, Adhyaan Zain 34, Binoth Sandil 33, Dinula Dison 32, Nishel Thilakaratna 3/25, Amal Perera 2/34, Raneesha Nimsara 2/49)
St. Joseph Vaz: 129 (Nishel Thilakaratna 25 n.o., Amal Perera 24, Jonathan Fernando 4/30, Manuja Premachandra 3/19, Adhyaan Zain 3/24)
Quarter-final round fixtures:
St. Anthony’s vs St. Joseph’s
Devapathiraja vs St. Peter’s
Semi-final
Royal vs Wesley
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