Day 9 - Match day 3
We were playing against St Anthony’s College in Kandy that was a short drive from our hotel. As was becoming a tradition on this tour we proceeded to lose the toss and the opposition chose to bat first. Their opening batsman proved to be an outstanding cricketer who demonstrated a superb range of shots with very little opportunity given to us to remove him. He scored 117 runs from 84 balls and the only chance we had to get him out was at 80 but sadly was dropped. We later found out that he was part of the Sri Lankan pathway programme, which came as no surprise after watching him play. The first wicket came from the bowling of Will Hale when he got the ball to move off the seam and the batsman nicked it as it when through to Jimmy behind the stumps who took a good catch. The next batsman in didn’t last too long as Alex Banhidai removed him after he faced just 10 balls and scored 7 runs. It was starting to look promising as Ciaran Whatmore removed their 4th batsman as Jimmy once aga...