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The 143rd Battle of the Blues ends draw.

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4 years ago

July 23, 2022

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The 143rd, the big match between Royal College Colombo and St. Thomas College ended in a draw at the SSC Sports Ground, Colombo.

St. Thomas scored two hundred and forty-two runs in the first innings and were all out, where Senesh Hettiarachchi and Charaka Peiris scored half-centuries to strengthen the innings. Gishan Balasooriya, Sandesh Ramanayaka, Ramiru Perera bowled for the royal team. His performances by taking wickets also stood out. In response to Thomas’s innings, Royal College lost 8 wickets and scored 219 runs, suspending their innings and giving the Thomas team the opportunity to bat again. Uvindu Weerasekara and Ramiru Perera performed well with the bat for the Royal team and Kavindu Dias managed to take 4 wickets for 65 runs for the Thomas team.

The Thomas team started their second innings with an advantage of 23 runs and by the end of the day, they had collected one hundred and forty-two runs with the loss of six wickets, whereas Rayan Fernando managed to collect 64 runs. Royal team Gishan Balasooriya, Sadisha Rajapaksha again showed their skills by taking wickets.

St.Thomas college 1st inning 242/10 (Ov 106.2)

Senesh Hettiarachchi 55 (118)
Charaka Peiris 51 (151)
Mahith Perera 33 (83)
Gishan Balasooriya 56/3 (31.2)
Sandesh Ramanayaka 16/2 (12)
Ramiru Perera 36/2 (9)

Royal College 1st inning 219/8d (70.4)

Uvindu Weerasekara 66 (109)
Ramiru Perera 34 (114)
Sineth jayawardane 32 (38)
Kavindu Dais 65/4 (17.4)
Gunaratnam Caniston 67/2 (23)

St.Thomas college 2nd inning 142/6 (Ov 64)

Rayan Fernando 74 (117)
Senesh Hettiarachchi 26 (65)
Gishan Balasooriya 56/3 (20)
Sadisha Rajapaksha 30/2 (18)

143 වැනි නිල් මහ සටන විසඳුමක් නොමැතිව අවසන් වේ.

143 වැනි වතාවට කොළඹ එස් එස් සී ක්‍රීඩා පිටියේ ශාන්ත තෝමස් විද්‍යාලය සහ කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්‍යාලය අතර පැවැති මහා ක්‍රිකට් තරඟය ජය පරාජයෙන් තොරව අවසන් වූවා.

ශාන්ත තෝමස් කණ්ඩායම ප්‍රථම ඉනිමට ලකුණු දෙසිය හතළිස් දෙකක් රැස්කර සිටිය දී සියලු දෙනා දැවී ගිය අතර එහිදී පිතිකරණයෙන් සුවිශේෂී දස්කම් දක්වමින් Senesh Hettiarachchi සහ Charaka Peiris අර්ධ ශතක රැස්කරමින් තෝමස් ඉනිම ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට සමත් වුණා.රාජකීය කණ්ඩායම වෙනුවෙන් පන්දු යැවීමෙන් Gishan Balasooriya, Sandesh Ramanayaka, Ramiru Perera කඩුළු ලබා ගනිමින් දස්කම් දැක්විමද කැපීපෙනිණි. තෝමස් ඉනිමට පිළිතුරු වශයෙන් රාජකීය විද්‍යාලය කඩුළු 8ක් බිදවැටී ලකුණු 219 ක් ලබා සිටියදී සිය ඉනිම අත්හිටවා නැවතත් තෝමස් කණ්ඩායමට පන්දුවට පහර දීමට අවස්ථාව ලබා දුන්නා. රාජකීය කණ්ඩායම වෙනුවෙන් Uvindu Weerasekara සහ Ramiru Perera පිතිකරණයෙන් දස්කම් දැක් වූ අතර තෝමස් කණ්ඩායම වෙනුවෙන් Kavindu Dias ලකුණු 65 ක ට කඩුළු 4ක් දවාගැනීමට සමත්වුණා.

ලකුණු 23ක වාසියක් ද සමඟින් සිය දෙවන ඉනිම ආරම්භ කළ තෝමස් කණ්ඩායම දිනය අවසාන වන විට කඩුලු හයක් බිදවැටී ලකුණු එකසිය හතළිස් දෙකක් රැස්කර ගෙන සිටි අතර එහිදී Rayan Fernando ලකුණු 64ක් රැස් කරගැනීමට සමත් වුණා. රාජකීය කණ්ඩායමේ Gishan Balasooriya, Sadisha Rajapaksha නැවතත් කඩුළු ලබා ගනිමින් සිය දක්ෂතා පෙන්නුම් කරනු ලැබුවා.

143வது ப்ளூஸ் போர் சமனில் முடிந்தது.

கொழும்பு றோயல் கல்லூரிக்கும் புனித தோமஸ் கல்லூரிக்கும் இடையிலான 143வது பெரிய போட்டி கொழும்பு SSC விளையாட்டு மைதானத்தில் டிராவில் முடிந்தது.

செயின்ட் தோமஸ் முதல் இன்னிங்ஸில் இருநூற்றி நாற்பத்தி இரண்டு ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற்று ஆல் அவுட் ஆனது, அங்கு செனேஷ் ஹெட்டியாராச்சி மற்றும் சரக பீரிஸ் ஆகியோர் அரை சதங்களைப் பெற்று இன்னிங்ஸை வலுப்படுத்தினர். அரச அணிக்காக கிஷான் பாலசூரிய, சந்தேஷ் ராமநாயக்க, ரமிரு பெரேரா ஆகியோர் பந்து வீசினர். விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்தியும் அவரது ஆட்டம் சிறப்பாக இருந்தது. தோமஸின் இன்னிங்ஸுக்கு பதிலடியாக றோயல் கல்லூரி 8 விக்கெட்டுகளை இழந்து 219 ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற்று தமது இன்னிங்ஸை இடைநிறுத்தி தோமஸ் அணிக்கு மீண்டும் துடுப்பெடுத்தாடும் வாய்ப்பை வழங்கியது. றோயல் அணி சார்பாக உவிந்து வீரசேகர மற்றும் ரமிரு பெரேரா ஆகியோர் துடுப்பாட்டத்தில் சிறப்பாக செயற்பட்டதுடன் தோமஸ் அணி சார்பாக கவிந்து டயஸ் 65 ஓட்டங்களுக்கு 4 விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்தினார்.

23 ஓட்டங்களின் அனுகூலத்துடன் தமது இரண்டாவது இன்னிங்ஸை ஆரம்பித்த தோமஸ் அணி, நாள் முடிவில் ஆறு விக்கெட்டுகளை இழந்து நூற்று நாற்பத்தி இரண்டு ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற்றிருந்ததுடன், ரயன் பெர்னாண்டோ 64 ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற முடிந்தது. றோயல் அணி கிஷான் பாலசூரிய, சதிஷ ராஜபக்ஷ மீண்டும் விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்தி தங்களது திறமையை வெளிப்படுத்தினர்.

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