The much-awaited one day cricket encounter between Trinity College and St. Anthony’s College, the 38th edition of the series will be played at the Katugasota ground today for the Richard Aluwihare trophy. Of the 37 games played so far both schools have 17 wins each, with 1 tied and 2 no results. The high riding Trinitians after the good show in the big match will be hoping to win this game, but when it comes to one day cricket, it’s not predictable. The two captains Hasitha Boyagoda (Trinity) and Janindu Himsara (St. Anthony’s) should remind their leading batsmen that the ball is meant to be hit and not play in a defensive manner especially in limited overs cricket. Last week’s big match that promised so much was cruelly ruined by rain and play ended by tea on the second day. So, this 39th encounter should see a good game of cricket. Teams: Trinity College - Hasitha Boyagoda (Captain), Trevon Percival, Rashmika Dilshan, Hasintha Jayasuriya, Vimukthi Nethumal, Budu Bandara, Avishka Senadheera, Kavishka Senadheera, Ruvin Pieris, Ashan Lokuketiya, Abishek Anandakumar, Chanuka Kumarasinghe, Himanga Suriyampola, Narendranath Ashok Kumar, Uvindu Imaldana, Jeff Weerasinghe.
St. Anthony’s College - Janidu Himsara (Captain), Theeksha Gunasinghe, Sunera Jayasinghe, Dion Stouter, Mohamed Absar, Jamashana Abeykoon, Navodya Vijaykumar, Kalhara Senaratne, Gihan Achintha, Sateesh Wickremaarachchi, Nimnaka Jayatilleka, Sasith Himdika, Mohamed Kameel, Gayan Samarasinghe, Savin Weerasinghe, Pramuditha Panditharatne.
Kingswood-Dharmaraja one-dayer on Sunday
Cricket of a high order could be witnessed in the 50 over cricket match between Kingswood College and Dharmaraja College to be played at the Pallekelle International Stadium tomorrow (Sunday) for the Winston Hoole trophy. Last week their 112th big match was played at the same venue and ended in a draw with major honors going to Kingswood. Teams: Kingswood College – Ganidu Kamburugamuwa (Captain) , Saumya Prabash (vice-captain), Dulin Wijenarayana, Deegayu Bandara , Dhananjaya Maduranga, Hashika Gamage , Uthpala Jayalath, Achala Bogodawaththa , Kushan Gashitha , Harshana Dilshan, Kasun Madawa , Ishan Devinda , Dilshan Senarath, Lakmal Silva, Vinuka Pussepitiya, Chanak Bandara
. Dharmaraja College - Bhavantha Udangamuwa (Captain). Rukmal Dissanayake (Vice Captain), Kasun Gunawardana, Sachintha Senanayake, Dulaj Bandara, Chetiya Ekanayake, Upendra Warnakulasuriya, Navindu Dilshan, Yasitha Samararatne, Isuru Dayananda, Mithila Gayashan, Virajith Ehelepola. Danuka Marasinghe, Tushan Herath, Shamil Muhandiram, Danuka Ratnayake.
Rugby – Kandy schools ups and downs
The Kandy schools rugby matches have kicked off and in the matches played so far Kingswood who lost their opener to Royal came back strongly to beat the Thomians 24/5 at Diganga grounds.
Royal showed St. Anthony’s how rugby should be played at Nittawela when they outclassed them 55-13. Trinitians coming out for the second time this season suffered a rare defeat due to their own mistakes against Josephians. In the first game they beat St. Anthony’s. Dharmaraja College in their first game went down to Isipthana College 42-14 - this was the Rajans first game. Vidyartha beat Ananda College to win the William Gopallawa shield played in Colombo.
This week’s games are: Monday at Nittawela Trinity will play Kingswood , St. Anthony’s play St. Joseph’s on Friday at Longden Place, Dharmaraja play St. Peter’s and Vidyartha will play Piliyandala Central at Nittawela on Sunday.
CPRFU AGM
The 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Central Province Rugby Football Union will take place on 8 April 2018 at 10.30 am at the Kandy Club hired hall at 20, Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha, Kandy.
Anil coach of match official at Malaysia 7’s
Kandy’s Anil Jayasinghe will be the coach of the match official and referee Aaqil Jamaldeen will be one of the referees in the final series of the NAZA National Sevens series organized by the Malaysia Rugby Union. This will be the third in the series, the first was held on 3-4 March at Stadium Hang Tuah, Melaka, the second was held on 10-11 March at Stadium Educity, Nusajaya Johor.
This is the third to be held on 24-25 March at Padang Ipoh, Perak. The winners in the second series were men’s (Core) Category - Cup Champions: Perak, Cup runners-up: Kedah, 3rd Placing: ATM and 4th Placing: Kelantan.
Sri Sumangala-Rahula one day
The Dharmadasa trophy one day cricket match between Wariyapola Sri Sumangala (St. Paul’s) College and Sri Rahula will take place on 30 March Friday at Pallkelle Stadium. It will be the 20th encounter.
74th Bradby April 21 and May 5
The first leg of the Bradby Shield rugby encounter between Trinity and Royal will be played on 21 April at Royal College Sports Complex and the return leg is scheduled for 5 May at Trinity College Rugby Stadium at Pallekelle.
Trinity lead the series with 39 wins against 32 with two ending in ties. This year’s first leg chief guest will be 1981 Royal captain Sujeewa Cooray and in the Kandy leg it will be Trinity’s 1981 captain Ravi Bandaranayake. Under these two captains the 1st leg was won by Trinity 16-3 and the 2nd leg by Royal 10-4.
Two Kandy schools in the semis
St. Anthony’s and Trinity entered the semifinals of the “Singer Cup” under 19 cricket limited overs two day knockout tournament. In the quarters Antonians beat Royal on first innings points after piling up an impressive total of 411-9. Trinity beat Nalanda.
Kandy should do well
Kandy cricket team looks strong, they are hoping to do well in the Sri Lanka Cricket super four day tournament which will take place from the end of this month. Four teams are in the fray and each team will play each other. Kandy’s first game is in with Colombo from 30 March to 2 April at Katunayake. The Kandy side is coached by Piyal Wijetunga. The squad is from Angelo Mathews (Capt), Niroshan Dickwella (v. capt), Pathum Nissanka, Priyamal Perera, Danushka Gunathilaka, Prabath Jayasuriya, Asela Gunaratne, Tharanga Paranavithana, Minod Bhanuka, Chamara Kapugedera, Chamika Karunaratne, Jeewan Mendis, Lahiru Kumara, Ramesh Mendis, Mahela Udawatte, Sachith Pathirana, Kasun Rajitha, Lahiru Samarakoon, Jehan Daniel, Hasitha Boyagoda, Team Manaegr Malinda Warnapura.
Ruggerite Tyrone Howie no more
Former Trinity College and Up Country club's ruggerite Tyrone Howie, brother of famous ruggerite Irvin Howie passed away in Australia after a brief illness. His funeral took place on Friday. He was a top class forward played for Trinity College and later for Dimbulla AC, Dickoya MCC and Uva Gymkhana Club. He played for the school under Jayantha Jayewardene in 1959, late Gen. Denzil Kobbekaduwa in 1960 and under Eric Roles. Some of his team mates at school were Gamini Fernando, Ken Murray, Jayantissa Ratwatte, T. N. Halangoda, C. H. Seneviratne, Nico de Silva, Mohan Sahayam and Asoka Kehelpanala to name a few. He leaves his wife Charmaine and daughters Tania and Natalie.
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