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Battle of the Golds ends in draw

The 16th Battle of the Golds big match between Mahanama and D.S. Senanayake Colleges played at the P. Sara Oval ended in a tame draw on Saturday.

The second day’s play saw DSS replying to Mahanama’s score of 282 for 6 declared were bowled out for 173 runs. DSS, in their second innings, ended the day on 107 for 6.

Chief Scores:

* At Colombo (Match drawn)

Mahanama: 282/6 declared (Sachira Weliwatta 89, Inuka Karannagoda 45, Anjala Bandara 42, Devindu Kekrideniya 35, Dhanuja Edirisinghe 53 n.o., Adeesha Bandaranayake 2/57)

DSS: 173 all out (Hirusha Piyumal 76, Senura Silva 36, Gaviru Senhas 17, Manura Gathsara 16 n.o., Devindu Kekirideniya 4/76, Duvindu Ranatunga 3/44, Inuka Karannagoda 2/15) and (Second innings) 107/6 at close (Malitha Perera 44, Gaviru Senhas 41, Devindu Kekirideniya 3/31, Inuka Karannagoda 2/25)

St. John’s College win 115th “Battle of the North”

Jeyachandran Ashnath had a match bag of 10 wickets as St. John’s recorded a 99-run win over Jaffna Central in their 115th Battle of the North Cricket encounter played at Jaffna Central grounds on Saturday.

Chief scores:

* At Jaffna. At Jaffna St Johns beat Jaffna Central by 99 runs

St. John’s: 167 all out (Kuganeswaran Karisan 41, Anton Abishek 40, Vinajakaselvam Kavitharsan 3/13, Jayatheeswaran Vithusan 3/41, Jayatheeswaran Vithusan 3/47) and 220/7 declared (Kamalapalam Sabesan 105, Nezakumar Jezial 35, Ranjith Newton 3/64) Jaffna Central: 125 all out (Sritharan Sarankan 41, Yogadas Vithusan 6/48, Jeyachandran Ashnath 4/46) and 163 all out (Ananthan Kajan 53, Jeyachandran Ashnath 6/70).


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