f43618 prem489	Colts Cricket Club v Colombo Cricket Club
	Saravanamuttu Trophy 1997/98 (Group A)
Venue	Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo on 6th, 7th, 8th March 1998 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Colombo Cricket Club won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Colts Cricket Club 3.5 (Batting 1.5, Bowling 2); Colombo Cricket Club 13.5 (Batting 3.5, Bowling 2)
Umpires	KT Francis, RMS Sirisoma
Close of play day 1	Colombo Cricket Club (1) 268/6 (Handunnettige ?*, Dalugoda ?*)
Close of play day 2	Colts Cricket Club (1) 167/3 (Sampath ?*, Hettiarachchi ?*)

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Colombo Cricket Club first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
NS Bopage	c Vitharana b Upashantha	39
PB Ediriweera	c Vitharana b Upashantha	21
+SKL de Silva	st Vitharana b Hettiarachchi	75
AS Polonowita	c Vitharana b Hettiarachchi	48
*CP Handunnettige	c Mendis b Upashantha	47
DF Arnolda	lbw b Upashantha	30
BU Karunaratne	c Vitharana b Upashantha	1
AP Dalugoda	st Vitharana b Hettiarachchi	25
NS Rajan	b Hettiarachchi	12
IS Gallage	not out	28
MJH Rushdy	lbw b Hettiarachchi	2
Extras	(11 b, 5 lb, 4 nb, 4 w)	24
Total	(all out, 128.3 overs)	352
Fall of wickets:
1-30 (Ediriweera), 2-105 (Bopage), 3-163 (de Silva), 4-223 (Polonowita), 5-260 (Arnolda), 6-262 (Karunaratne), 7-303 (Dalugoda), 8-307 (Handunnettige), 9-348 (Rajan), 10-352 (Rushdy, 128.3 ov)

Colts Cricket Club bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Upashantha	28	4	108	5	-	-
Alexander	14	3	59	0	-	-
Ranatunga	5	2	10	0	-	-
Hettiarachchi	47.3	18	84	5	-	-
TT Samaraweera	29	11	64	0	-	-
Fernando	5	2	11	0	-	-

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Colts Cricket Club first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
DP Samaraweera	lbw b Dalugoda	66
MC Mendis	c Gallage b Rajan	43
SI Fernando	c de Silva b Dalugoda	33
MT Sampath	c de Silva b Gallage	33
DS Hettiarachchi	b Gallage	6
HGJM Kulatunga	c Polonowita b Gallage	55
TT Samaraweera	c Polonowita b Rushdy	4
*N Ranatunga	c Handunnettige b Rushdy	4
+DWAND Vitharana	c Ediriweera b Rajan	16
S Alexander	c Karunaratne b Dalugoda	13
KEA Upashantha	not out	1
Extras	(10 lb, 10 nb, 2 w)	22
Total	(all out, 114.5 overs)	296
Fall of wickets:
1-90 (Mendis), 2-139 (Fernando), 3-161 (DP Samaraweera), 4-176 (Hettiarachchi), 5-206 (Sampath), 6-237 (TT Samaraweera), 7-245 (Ranatunga), 8-275 (Vitharana), 9-290 (Alexander), 10-296 (Kulatunga, 114.5 ov)

Colombo Cricket Club bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Gallage	27.5	6	62	3	-	-
Rushdy	20	4	57	2	-	-
Arnolda	3	2	2	0	-	-
Dalugoda	41	16	84	3	-	-
Rajan	23	1	81	2	-	-

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Colombo Cricket Club second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
NS Bopage	not out	108
PB Ediriweera	c and b TT Samaraweera	23
+SKL de Silva	b TT Samaraweera	21
BU Karunaratne	not out	5
AS Polonowita	did not bat
*CP Handunnettige	did not bat
DF Arnolda	did not bat
AP Dalugoda	did not bat
NS Rajan	did not bat
IS Gallage	did not bat
MJH Rushdy	did not bat
Extras	(8 b, 4 lb, 3 nb, 4 w)	19
Total	(2 wickets, 35.4 overs)	176
Fall of wickets:
1-60 (Ediriweera), 2-156 (de Silva)

Colts Cricket Club bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Upashantha	3	1	24	0	-	-
Alexander	2	0	15	0	-	-
Hettiarachchi	11	1	50	0	-	-
TT Samaraweera	15	2	40	2	-	-
Fernando	4.4	0	35	0	-	-

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Notes
--> N Ranatunga made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> BU Karunaratne made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> NS Bopage (2) passed 1500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 91
--> PB Ediriweera (2) passed 1500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 18
--> KEA Upashantha achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches when he dismissed CP Handunnettige in the Colombo Cricket Club first innings (previous best was 4-11)
--> KEA Upashantha achieved his first five wickets in an innings in First-Class matches in the Colombo Cricket Club first innings
--> MJH Rushdy reached 100 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed TT Samaraweera, his 1st wicket in the Colts Cricket Club first innings

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