The 65th annual Mongoose Battle between Kalutara Tissa Central College and Kalutara College ended without a result yesterday (25).
The three-day match at the De Zoysa Stadium in Moratuwa was severely hampered by rain. The match will begin on the final day after an hour of lunch break.
Accordingly, the match will begin on the third day with Tissa Central College scoring 239 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. After batting for 2 days due to adverse weather conditions, they decided to call off their innings today after facing 14 balls and scoring 249 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.
Sithum Mihiranga, who had remained unbeaten on 44 the previous day, unfortunately missed his half-century today, one run short. His 49 came off 167 balls and included 2 fours.
In the wicket-taking, right-arm off-spinner Hirusha Gaganaka took 6 wickets for 89 runs while Adeesha Pabasara took 2 wickets for 76 runs.
In reply, Kalutara College, which entered the field for the innings, managed to remove the first two wickets of the innings when the score was 20 runs.
Savinu Liyanage scored 17 runs off 75 balls with a four and Liviru Fernando scored 15 runs off 16 balls with a four.
However, after losing the third wicket for 43 runs, the opposition bowlers managed to take 4 wickets in 7 balls. At that time, they gave away only 2 runs to the opposition.
In the last hour of the match, with 13 overs out of the 15 overs to be bowled, the Kalutara College captain called off the innings. At that time, they had scored only 91 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in their first innings.
In terms of wickets, Malindu Dilshan recorded the best bowling of the innings, taking 4 wickets for 29 runs. In addition, Nadun Asela also took 4 wickets for 43 runs.
Tissa Central College – First innings 249 for 9 (110.4) Malsha Kavishan 47, Malindu Dilshan 23, Umantha Akash 22, Ajitha Buddhila 27, Sithum Mihiranga 49, Tharuka Samanjith not out 31, Hirusha Gaganaka 6/89, Adisha Pabasara 2/76
Kalutara College – First innings 91 for 8 (52.0) Adisha Pabasara 23, Deshan Aloka 21, Malindu Dilshan 4/29, Nadun Asela 4/43