The Benedict College team managed to win the Cartman Cup Test cricket tournament held recently (23-24) between St. Benedict's and Wesley College, Colombo by 46 runs. P. Batting first in this match held at the Saravanamuthu Stadium, the St. Benedict's College team was able to score 150 runs.
Steve Arshan scored 42 runs for the Benedict team and Sanitu Amarasinghe of Wesley College managed to take 4 wickets for 45 runs. The Wesley team, which entered the field for the reply innings of the Benedict team, lost 8 wickets and the innings was suspended for 122 runs. In Benedict College's wicket chart, Mevan Dissanayake and Yohan Edirisinghe shared 2 wickets each.
The team of Wesley College managed to defeat the team of Benedict College, who started the second innings with a lead of 28 runs, for 110 runs. Uvin Perera took 6 wickets for 34 runs and Sanitu Amarasinghe took 3 wickets for 18 runs and colored the scoreboard of Wesley College.
The team of Benedict was able to beat all the Wesley team for 92 points, who entered the field with a target of 139 points for the victory. For Benedict's team, player Mevan Senanayake scored 4 wickets for 26 runs and Vihaga Ratnayake and Yohan Edirisinghe scored 2 wickets each to give victory to Benedict Vidyalaya.