Forced to follow on after being bowled out for 111 runs, Zahira College did well in the second innings to force a draw to their Inter School Under-19 match against Royal College at Reid Avenue yesterday.

Skipper Mohamed Ishan scored back to back half centuries while Assad Borham scored an unbeaten 52 runs in just 50 balls for Zahira to post 180 for nine wickets before bad light stopped play. Ishan followed up his first innings half century with a 54 ball knock which produced 61 runs.

For Royal College Maneesha Tantrigoda completed a match bag of nine wickets with an impressive six wicket haul in the second innings.

Royal 212 for 6 decl in 44.2 overs (Chalaka Bogoda 57, Prabhath Sampath 27, Bhanuka Rajapakse 31, Waruna Dissanayake 22, Kithruwan Vithanage 43, Milan Abeysekara 24; Mohamed Ishan 3/75)

Zahira 111 all out in 42.3 overs (Mohamed Ishan 51, Mohamed Shihan 18; Imran Khan 5/18, Maneesha Tantrigoda 3/32) and 180 for 9 at close in 46 overs (Mohamed Ishan 61, Assad Borham 52n.o; Maneesha Tantrigoda 6/59, Waruna Dissanayake 2/19)

Joes 194, Kalutara MV 124/6

In reply to St. Joseph’s College 194 runs, Kalutara Vidyalaya were 124 for six wickets at close on the first day of their match which commenced at Kalutara yesterday.

St. Joseph’s 194 all out in 63.3 overs (Keshan Perera 25, Jaan Jayasinghe 56, Roscoe Thattil 31, Sachin Hewawasam 40; Brian Chapal 2/14, Savith Priyan 4/25)

Kalutara Vidyalaya 124 for 6 in 34 overs (Kushan Samithajith 40n.o, Tharindu Uthpala 22, Chamika Madushan 22; Dinal Dhambarage 2/38)

Pavithra hits half century for Dharmapala

Nipun Pavithara top scored with 57 runs for Dharmapala College to post 237 runs on the first day of their match commenced at Bloomfield Ground yesterday.

In reply Nalanda were 71 for three wickets at close.

Dharmapala 237 all out in 73 overs (Nipun Pavithara 57, Rasitha Gamage 44, Dilrukshan Jayasundara 36; Nipun Karunanayake 2/28, Dinuk Jayasinghe 2/63, Suranga Tennakoon 2/18)

Nalanda 71 for 3 in 23 overs (Tharindu Vidanapathirana 34)