Imesh Soysa pilots Horana Royal to victory | Daily News

Imesh Soysa pilots Horana Royal to victory

A fine match bag of 10 for 32 (4/0 and 6/32) by second year player and left arm leg spinner Imesh Soysa enabled Royal College Horana to defeat Rajapakse Maha Vidyalaya Weeraketiya by 59 runs in their inter-school first eleven cricket match worked off at Horana. This game is their third outing for the season and they are coached by Janith Dissanayake and Dinuka Godakanda as his deputy.

Batting first Horana Royalists were all out for 137runs with Vidura Subasinghe claiming 5 for 27 and in reply visitors scored 165 runs Dimantha Ovitigala had a fine spell of 5 for 5 runs.

In their second essay homesters did much better to score 215 runs with Manuja Matarage and Sahan Divyanjana scoring 68 and 59 runs respectively. Set to make 188 runs for an outright win visitors were all out for 128 runs.

Chief Scores

Royal College Horana – 137 in 39.2 overs (Oshada Maduranga 27, Imesh Udayanga 28, Subodha Lakshan 22, Vidura Subasinghe 5/27, Dulaj Chamudika 3/56 and 215, Manuja Matarage 68, Sahan Divyanjana 59, Imesh Umayanga 34, Dulaj Samudika 3/32, Vidura Subasinghe 2/74, Lasiru Pramuditha 2/31.

Rajapakse Maha Vidyalaya – 165 in 25.3 overs – Lakmindu Sampath 20, Vidura Subasinghe 26, Dimantha Ovitigala 5/5, Imesh Soysa 4/0 and 128 (Sanjana Ninthaka 32, Lakmindu Sampath 24, Imesh Soysa 6/32, Imesh Umayanga 3/9).


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