Rear guard actions dominated the first day of the Major Club Emerging 3-day tournament matches at the P Sara Oval, Galle and Welisara yesterday with the teams to benefit from such recoveries being Tamil Union, Army SC and Lankan CC respectively. In the key Group C clash Tamil Union had to thank their ninth wicket pair Kavindu Pathiratne and Dilum Sudeera for extracting them from a hopeless position of 138-8 to post a challenging total of 313 against Ragama CC. Pathiratne hit 16 fours and a six in his 181-ball innings for 111, and Sudeera offered excellent support with 59 off 151 balls (five fo…