The Sri Sumangala College cricket team and the two coaches posed for a photograph after Tharana de Silva (fifth from right back row) made his double century (252) against Revatha College, Balapitiya. The Sumangalian skipper Anuka Jayasinghe is standing seventh from right. (Picture by Dilwin Mendis Moratuwa Sports Special Correspondent)
Vice-captain, fourth year coloursman and all rounder who bats right hand and bowls right arm leg spin M. K. Tharana de Silva of Sri Sumangala College, Panadura was the highest scorer during the 2019-20 Inter School Under 19 division two cricket season with a grand knock of 252 against Revatha College, Balapitiya. His 168-ball innings included 28 hits to the ropes and 11 over it.
However in the Under 19 division two tournament quarterfinals they lost to Holy Cross College.
Tharana commenced his cricket career from Under 13 and he captained the under 13, 15 and 17 teams. As an under 15 player he played for the first eleven cricket team and in the Big Match in 2016 followed by 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. He played in the Prima Cup for Kalutara District in the Under 15 District team and they clinched the trophy. He was a member of the first eleven team when Sumangalians emerged as the Best Emerging Western Province Cricket Team.
He also carried away the Best Batsman’s Award in 2019 at the Big Match and in the Limited Overs Match and in 2020 he won the Best Bowler’s Prize too.
He toured Japan for a cricket tournament with the Nugegoda Sports and Welfare Club.
How Tharana fared during the 2019/20 season:
vs. Tholangamuwa Vidyalaya 14, vs. St. Mary’s College 64, vs. Siri Piyarathana 57, vs. Royal Panadura 55, vs. Rewatha, Balapitiya 252, vs. Piliyandala Central 28, vs. Lyceum, Wattala 41, vs. Holy Cross 8, vs. Bandaranayake, Gampaha 2, vs. Kalutara Vidyalaya 0, vs. Dharmaloka, Kelaniya 100, vs. Rahula, Matara 18, vs. Holy Cross (Pre- Quarters) 0, vs. Moratu Vidyalaya 63, vs. Holy Cross (One-Day) 16, vs. Moratu Vidyalaya (One-Day) 18.
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