St. Anthony’s College colours awards on Saturday

S.M. Jifferey Abdeen, Kandy sports corr.

The colours award ceremony of St. Anthony’s College, Kandy will be held at the Rev. Fr. Resatic Memorial Hall of the school on Saturday commencing at 5 p.m.

The colours awarding ceremony of this leading school in the hill capital which has been in existence for over 153 years was last held in 1992, when colours, Eagles and Super Eagles were awarded to top sportsmen who had brought honour to the school and excelled in their own field of sports.

The Principal of the school at the time the colours award ceremony was last held was Rev. Fr. Stephen Abrahams, whose love for sports knew no bounds and was over willing to help the media inthe coverage of sports items.

The same cannot be said in the period which followed his tenure as principle.

It was during the days of Principalship of Fr. Stephen Abrahams that cricketing stars like Muthaih Muralitharan, Ruwan Kalpage, Piyal Wijetunge, Sajith Fernando, Nuwan Kalpage just to name a few emerged from this great institution. The first three named not only played for the national team and they played together in the Test match against South Africa.

The present Principal Rev. Fr. Titus Rodrigo who assumed duties last year was quick to realise the revival of the colours award ceremony and the idea took root. Dickie Dunuwille as Chairmen of the organising committed and Anton Perera as Secretary and Co-ordinated by Chandra Mahawattege are sparing no pains to make this event a grand success.