Trinity cricket academy

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Trinity Cricket Academy played matches with Polgahawela Cricket academy and Matale Cricket academy and won both the games under 12 and 14. The matches were played at Polgahawela and Matale. They also played four under 14, eight under 12 and four under 10 matches with Sanath Jayasuriya Cricket academy. Future Stars Cricket academy and Elite Cricket academy won all their matches. Today and tomorrow they will play a series of academy matches with Center of Excellence Cricket academy NCC and CCC Cricket academy U14 and U12. It will take place at Asgiriya, Police grounds and Trinity Junior School grounds. From August 23 to 25 at Asgiriya the inaugural COE Camp - Life beyond Cricket “Professionalizing Budding Cricketers" will take place.

Kandy Schools will be at their best

All Kandy schools boys and girls teams will be in action at the All Island under 19 schools Basketball championship, which will take place next Saturday - for girls at Gateway College courts in Colombo and for boys at S. Thomas’ College courts at Mt. Lavinia. The quarterfinals are expected to take place on 10 September under lights at Pedris Park. The finals on 17 September at the same venue under lights.

Kingswood and Trinity in quarters

Trinity and Kingswood qualified to play in the quarter-finals of the Under-16, 15-a-side league rugby tournament. Fourteen schools from Kandy and two schools from Kurunegala took part in the tournament played at Pallekele grounds. In the preliminary matches Trinity thrashed Vidyartha 76-0, Dharmaraja beat Maliyadeva 10-0, St. Anthony's beat Sarasavi MV 36-5, Vidyartha beat Sri Rahula 20-5 and St. Anthony's beat Sri Rahula 30-0. In the pre-quarter finals Trinity beat Dharmaraja 15-0 and Kingswood beat St. Anthony's 31-5. The quarter-finals to be played in Colombo will see four schools from the Western Province, one each from the Sabaragamuwa and Southern Provinces and the two Kandy schools battling it out for a semi-final berth.

When will the 2017 AGM of KFL take place?

Today no one seems to care for Kandy’s football which has a record of being over 90 years old. Once before the FFSL AGM some people from Colombo came and had secret meetings, and after the AGM they are not even heard of. For the last many years, tournaments are not organized in the correct way; the 2016 semifinals were played a few weeks back and the finals have yet to take place. Why is the FFSL blind to it? Today the game of football is given step motherly treatment, the right people are not involved. The Kandy Football League is a founder member of the controlling body. At one time this league conducted over 150 matches a year, today not even ten.

At least this time will cue sport be cured?

For the last many years the cue game in Kandy is dead. At one time many clubs played the game and their cueists took part in the Lanka Plate championship, for the last couple of years no one has qualified to play in the Lanka Plate in snooker and billiards. Except for Mahanuwara YMBA all others clubs have made the cue room their store room. No one is interested and there is no proper person who can give a hand for the game.

Saints Quadrangular cricket at Katugastota

The 50th flagship event of the Old Boys of the four Catholic schools St. Anthony’s College Katugastota, St. Benedict’s College Kotahena, St. Joseph’s College Maradana and St. Peter’s College Bambalapitiya will be held at Katugastota. The old boys of these schools come together once a year as a tradition to celebrate their comrade and fellowship whilst reliving their glory years. This time Antonians will be the host and are expected to do a good job in the organizing part. This annual tournament is the brainchild of the Old Benedictines for their OBU Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1963. Various schools were invited for this inaugural tournament, but coincidently only three schools responded namely St. Anthony’s College, St. Joseph’s College, St. Benedict’s College and St. Peter’s College. Late Old Anthonian Ranjith Samarasekera, a fine cricketer was the pillar of strength to this Quadrangular tournament.

He has been in every organizing committee since the inauguration this time he will be missed; he passed away on 16 January this year. At the 47th Saints Quadrangular in 2014 Samarasekera was honored when a trophy named ‘Ranjith Samarasekera Challenge Trophy’ was donated by Old Peterites Sports Club to be awarded to the winners of the Rugby Sevens in recognition of his commitment and excellent service rendered by him towards the success of the tournament.

Mahamaya Girls College makes Kandy proud

Mahamaya College, Girls' showed their knowledge to win the Olympic Values Education Programme (OVEP) Inter-School Pilot Debate Program. They beat Sirimavo Bandaranaike College Colombo in the final. This event was conducted by the National Olympic Committee (NOC) in collaboration with the International Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Education. The Mahamaya Girls have got the opportunity to visit Olympia in Greece, where the Olympic Games was first held.

CPRFU Development Officer to give a hand

The Central Province Rugby Football Union Development Officer Abdul Rasheed has been approached by Sri Lanka Rugby to give a hand to the Training & Education Pre Course Requisites needed to do the World Rugby L1 Coaching Course. It will be Beginners Guide, Laws of the Game, Introduction to coaching, key fact to analysis in coaching, Concussion Management to the General Public (player welfare). Today Sri Lanka Rugby is blessed with a fine CEO Priyantha Ekanayake and Executive Director Rohan Gunaratne two top ruggerites. According to Abdul Rasheed he has received over 20 applicants to follow the course.

Suggestion to show accounts

At the first council meeting of Sri Lanka Rugby, Tuan Dole has suggested that Kandy Sports Club need to show the accounts for the money given by Sri Lanka Rugby. He had pointed out, as for the profitability of conducting super sevens what really brought the profit down was the extra cost of moving the tournament to Kandy. It cost Rs. 6-7 million extra. Sri Lanka Rugby has given money to improve the infrastructure although it was not done. Whatever said and done Sri Lanka Rugby did a good job by organsing the tournament well.

Hasitha tipped to lead

Trinity College cricket team who were adjudged as the best school team - Central Province at the 39th Observer Mobitel school cricket awards, will be field a strong side in the coming season.

A former player and last season’s coach Kavinda Jayasuriya will continue as the head coach and Rushan Jaleel, a former captain will continue as the head of strategic planning, development and implementation. Classy middle order batsman and last season’s vice-captain Hasitha Boyagoda who is also a good left arm fast bowler is tipped to lead the side

Antonian under 17 cricketers enter semis

St. Anthony’s College entered the semifinals of the Singer U17 Division 1 cricket tournament by beating St. Sebastian’s College, Moratuwa by 4 wickets in the quarter final. Now they will meet Royal College in the semis at Moors grounds, most probably on Tuesday. Antonians will be expecting a lot from players like Gihan Achintha, Thamashana Abeykoon, Navodya Wijekumara, and Theeksha Gunasinghe. They are coached by former D.S. Senanayake College cricketer Sampath Perera an experienced person in the coaching field.

Football

Last Sunday at P.T. Rajan playgrounds at Mahiyawa, St. Sylvester’s College had a Futsal Football carnival, where only present and past products of the school were in action. They also had a seven a side tournament for under 11.

This was organized by the Old Sylverstrians Football Union.

Sportsmen Travis Sinniah to head Navy?

Former Trinity College sportsmen Rear Admiral Travis Sinniah who has done a lot for Navy sports is tipped to be the Chief of Defence Staff.