Havelocks should have it easy against Army

Ranjeeva Seneviratne

Havelocks Sports Club which is in a buoyant mood after two smashing wins over CH and FC (19-11) and Police (41-12) in their last two outings should have no difficulty in beating an injury hit Army team in their Caltex 'A' Division League rugby match at Havelock Park today.

The kick off is scheduled for 4.30 p.m. The soldiers have been hit by injuries and will miss the services of prop forward Nushal Meepage, lock forward R.M.G. Ratnayake, flanker Nishantha Kobbekaduwa, Sri Lanka centre Kapila Knowlton and No. 8 Manoj Silva. To add to their woes prop forward Asela Palihena is not available for today's match having being deployed for duty in Jaffna.

Havelocks - Shafi Hassen, Rajiv Perera, Danushka Sandaruwan, Kavinda Jayasena (captain), Mohamed Izzadeen, S.B. Dissanayake, T.D. Seneviratne or Sharo Fernando, Rajiv Ganapathy, Dilan de Zoysa and Samantha Lakshan, Zahir Badurdeen, Nuwan Samith, Dilip Mathruwan, Wasim Thajudeen, Nuwan Hettiarachchi.

Army - Nishantha Kotelawala (captain), Asoka Jayalal, Ajith Susantha, Sarath Kumara, Bowange, Wickramanayake, Herathge Karunaratne, Ajit Pushpakumara, Tharindu Darshana, and Upul Kumara, Saliya Handapangoda, Asanka Perera, Duminda Wickremaratne, S. Alwis and Harischandra.