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Christ King College, Pannipitiya came out on top when they ended up as group champions of the Under-13 Division III Cricket Tournament conducted by the Schools Cricket Association. Christ King College team played in Segment ‘M’ of the Under-13 Division III won three matches they played and drew one match.

Under captain Sahan Perera Christ King College beat Sri Rahula College, Angoda outright and beat Tikiri Kumara College, Ambatale, and Ananda College, Kottawa on 1st innings. The match between Christ King and Bomiriya Central College teams ended in no decision.

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St. Sebastian College defeated Isipathana Vidyalaya, Colombo by innings and thirteen runs to gain their fifth victory from twelve matches this season in their inter-school under-19 cricket match worked off at Surrey Grounds, Maggona with the match ending at 3 p.m.

Remaining at 185 for 5 on day two Sebs declared at 272 for 9 with Sangeeth Cooray (81) and Anuk Fernando (56) associating a sixth wicket stand of 119 runs. Sidath Mallawarachchi bagged 5 for 79. In their second essay Isipathana were all out for 121 runs with Anuk Fernando claiming 6 for 37.

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In a match dominated by bowlers of either side the school cricket match between St. Benedict’s and St. Anthony‘s Katugasthota ended in a draw at Kotahena yesterday.Yohan Soysa of St. Benedict’s had a match bag of 10 for 61 while Anthonian Saranga Rajaguru took 6 for 38 in the Bens first innings.Chief score.

St. Benedict’s: 100 (Praveen Gunawardena 31, Arjuna Perera 23, Saranga Rajaguru 6 for 38, P. Wijetunga (3 for 17,) and 156 .M. Madusanka 42, Dilan Angelo 27, Abdul Manas 26, Sachin Bulathsinhala 3 for 38).

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Prince of Wale’s College beat formidable Ananda College, Colombo by nine wickets and Cambrians were home for tea and match ending at 2.20 pm in their inter-school under-19 cricket match worked off at Moratuwa.

Cambrians who beat the strong Peterites after ten years a fortnight back and lost to Richmondites after a lapse of forty years bounced back to beat more fancied Ananda College thus giving ample evidence that "Cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties".

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Set to make 217 runs to win in 35 overs, St. Peter’s hung on to force a draw when they were badly placed with 183 for 9 with three overs more to be bowled when bad light intervened in their school cricket match against Royal at Reid Avenue yesterday.

Peterite skipper Shehan Fernando who scored 119 in the first innings missed the opportunity of scoring his second hundred as he kept the Peterite hoping flickering striking a resourceful 96 off 74 deliveries with the aid of nine fours and five sixes. He was engaged in two useful partnerships adding 87 runs for the second wicket with Janith Liyanage (38) and another 49 runs for the fourth wicket with Lahiru Milantha (21). With the dismissal of Lahiru Milantha who was run out and Shehan Fernando in the quest of accelerating was caught by Heshan Kumarasiri of Poorna Aluthge for 96 the Peterites lost their way and had to battle to avoid defeat.

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Chaturanga Priyadarshana of Sri Rahula College, Katugastota won the Independence Day road race organised by the playground Department of Kandy Municipal Council for the 38th year.

Following are the winners of first three places in each race:-

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DUBAI, Feb. 4, (AFP) – Experienced batsman Younis Khan proved his class with a superb hundred to put Pakistan in a good position on the second day of the third and final Test against England played here on Saturday.

The 34-year-old right-hander scored an unbeaten 115 to repair the Pakistan innings after early wobbles with youngster Azhar Ali (75 not out) through an unbroken third wicket stand of 194 to take their team to 222-2 at close.

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CRICKET: The reigning World Cup champions in this format of the game India and Australia will shoot off the cowboy game when they confront each in the first 50-over match of the Commonwealth Bank Tri-series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today.

The Indians must be hurt inside after being stuffed by the Australians in the four-match Test series earlier, and will be like starved tigers wanting to devour the Australians and avenge those defeats somewhat, although those defeats were in a different ball game.

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TENNIS: WHITE PLAINS, New York, Jan 28 (AFP): Serena and Venus Williams were both named Tuesday to the US squad to host Belarus in a Fed Cup first-round tie in Massachusetts next month.

The US Tennis Association and American captain Mary Joe Fernandez said the Williams sisters would be joined by Christina McHale and top doubles player Liezel Huber when the Americans host a Belarus side likely to include world No. 3 Victoria Azarenka in Worcester, Massachusetts, February 4-5.

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CRICKET: Sri Lanka’s cricket chief Friday defended the sacking of Australian coach Geoff Marsh and the selection of a new team captain, saying the changes would help usher in a new era of "cricketing excellence".

"We will reap the benefits of these changes in the fullness of time," Sri Lanka Cricket president Upali Dharmadasa said in statement. The sacking of Marsh on Wednesday – just three months into a two-year contract – was widely criticised, with former team skipper Arjuna Ranatunga calling the move "disgraceful" and "unprofessional".

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