After suffering back to back outright defeats Revata College came back with a strong bowling performance spearheaded by left arm paceman Nadeera de Silva to record a stunning innings and 29 runs victory over Kingswood College in their Under-19 match ended at Balapitiya yesterday.

Injury hit Kingswood were struggling from the start and folded up for 113 runs in the morning yesterday as Janith Chathuranga and Nadeera de Silva shared five wickets between them.

Forced to follow on, a well laboured 46 runs from skipper Udara Hettige was the only consolation for the visitors as paceman Nadeera de Silva picked up four wickets to skittle them out for 123 runs.

Incidentally it was Revata’s first outright victory of the tournament.

Revata 265 all out in 63.1 overs (Dulaj Dananjaya 45, Pulastha Dinusha 51, Nimna de Silva 29, Nadeera de Silva 44, Shehan Manuran 33; Subodha Premaratne 5/70, Lakshitha Madushan 4/55)

Kingswood 99 for 6 overnight 113 all out in 41.1 overs (Lakshitha Madushan 19, Udara Hettige 20, Yasindu Athukorala 15; Janith Chathuranga 3/41, Nadeera de Silva 2/14, Nimna de Silva 2/01) and 123 all out in 33.4 overs (Udara Hettige 46, Yasindu Athukorala 22, Mahesh Dunukara 13n.o; Nadeera de Silva 4/29, Buddhika Madusanka 3/21)

A last wicket partnership of 70 runs between Suranga Tennakoon (87) and Koshan Danushka (22n.o) and impressive bowling of Nalanda College were the highlights as they recorded an innings and one run victory over Thurstan College in their Under-19 match ended at Campbell Place yesterday.

Thurstan 164 all out in 45 overs (Udara Munasinghe 56, Kaveen Tharindu 24, Sajeewa Salgado 25: Sineth Gunawardena 3/45, Nipun Karunanayake 4/28) and 126 all out in 51.5 overs (Shehan Kamileen 35, Jehan Javid 20, Sajeewa Salgado 22; Nipun Karunanayake 2/40, Dinuk Jayasinghe 2/21, Suranga Tennakoon 2/01, Koshan Danushka 2/15)

Nalanda 184 for 8 overnight 291 all out in 75 overs (Nipun Karunanayake 57, Prashan Wickramasinghe 31, Suranga Tennakoon 87, Koshan Danushka 22n.o; Ranga Wijewickrama 4/38, Prabodha Arthavidu 2/28)

Spinner Maneesha Tantrigoda impressed with an eight wicket haul for Royal College to restrict Dharmaraja College to 147 runs on the first day of their Under-19 match commenced at Kandy yesterday.

In reply Royal were 137 for six at close after being 100 for one at one stage as Rahula Ekanayake picked up four wickets.

Dharmaraja 147 all out in 43.3 overs (Ramesh Bandara 45, Sandun Weerakkody 24, Lahiru Herath 19n.o; Maneesha Tantrigoda 8/48)

Royal 137 for 6 at close in 40 overs (Ramith Rambukwella 65, Shavinda Edirisuriya 19, Madusha Rajaratne 19; Rahula Ekanayake 4/59)