Needing 172 runs to win St. Joseph’s College just failed to give chase and with the Peterite bowlers bowling cleverly, restricted the Jose and their “Battle of the Saints” ended in a draw at the SSC ground yesterday.
Josephian bowler M. Madubashan celebrates taking a wicket out of the five he claimed
With this drawn game the Trophy will remain at St. Peter’s College.
St. Peter’s just could not score too many runs in their second innings and wickets fell at short intervals early in their innings. They ended up scoring only 168 runs with the help of 53 runs scored by Nathan David and Jason Fernando who scored a disciplined 45 runs.
Maanasa Madubashana bowled best to capture early wickets and ended up with five wickets for 57 runs. Along with Nushan Perera and Yenula Dewthusa who claimed two wickets each restricted the Peterites to 168 all out.
Josephians began with some ambitions of racing to the target with their opener Aveesha Samash starting with a six in the first over. Abishek Jayaweera too was a bit aggressive but after losing two quick wickets they put the shutters down and could only slow down in their run chase. They were taking only singles with the boundaries not coming as easily as they would have liked.
Scores:
St. Peter’s: 243 (Dilana Damsara 44, Nathan David 29, Asadisa de Silva 38, Joshua Sebastian 27, Thareen Sanketh 21, Lashmika Perera 58, Maanasa Madubashana 3/77, Yenula Dewthusa 2/58, Nushan Perera 2/50, Demion de Silva 2/48)
And 168 (Nathan David 53, Jason Fernando 45, Enosh Peterson 34, Ethan Ransiliga 20, Dewthusa 2/49 Maanasa Madubashana 5/57, N. Perera 2/35)
St. Joseph’s: 240/7 dec (Abishek Jayaweera 23, Aveesha Samash 32, Senuja Wakunugoda 48, Yenula Dewthusa 86, Rishma Amarasinghe 27, Joshua Sebastian 4/80, Lashmika Perera 3/64) and 70 for 2 at stumps (Aveesha Samash 20, Abishek Jayaweera 23 n.o. Yenula Dewthusa 9 n.o.)
