Four Saints to have a Twenty20 bash tomorrow

LESLIE Fernando

The four leading Catholic schools in the country, St. Joseph’s College, St. Peter’s College, St. Benedict’s College and St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota will play in the inaugural Saints Schools Quadrangle Twenty20 cricket tournament for ‘Archbishop of Colombo Trophy’ tomorrow at the R. Premadasa stadium.

The tournament is hosted by St. Benedict’s College and sponsored by Ceylon Cold Stores and the co-sponsors are Silver Ray and K. D. W. Pelmadulla and Bartleet Finance Ltd.

Chief guest

The opening ceremony will be at 9.30 a.m. and the chief guest will be Rev. Bro. Denzil Perera, Provincial Visitor, Lassallian Brothers, while Rev. Fr. Ranjith Madurawela, General Manager, Catholic Schools will be the guest of honour.

The match schedule - St. Joseph’s vs St. Peter’s at 10 a.m. - match ‘A’ team batting first, at 11.30 a.m.. Match ‘B’ - St. Benedict’s vs St. Anthony’s - team batting first. Lunch break at 1 p.m. followed by match ‘B’ team batting second at 1.30 p.m. Match ‘B’ team batting second at 3 p.m. at 4.30 p.m. cultural display and entertainment.

The chief guest Most. Rev. Dr. Oswald Gomis, Archbishop of Colombo will arrive at 5.30 p.m. The final will be at 6 p.m. under lights and the award ceremony at 8.30 p.m.

The adjudicator will be Roger Wijesuriya. The awards and prizes on offer are - Archbishop of Colombo Challenge Trophy and Rs. 50,000, medals for the champions, runner-up Rs. 25,000 and medals. Man of the Match - semi-finals (2 awards) trophy and gift voucher and gift pack.

Gift vouchers

Best Batsman of the final trophy and gift vouchers, Best Bowler in the final - trophy and gift voucher, Best Fielder in the finals - trophy and gift voucher, Man of the Match (finals) - trophy and gift voucher worth Rs. 10,000, Most Valuable Player of the tournament - trophy and gift voucher worth Rs. 15,000, Spirit of the Game Award - a trophy.

Rev. Bro. Granville, Director, St. Benedict’s College, said that the Twenty20 cricket tournament will be an annual feature. St. Joseph’s College has agreed to host next year’s tournament.

Tournament

The Old Boys Quadrangular among the same four schools was conducted from 1963 and it will now be the chance for the schoolboy cricketers to continue the trend participating in the tournament.

He thanked the organising committee and the authorities of the other three schools for extending their utmost support to make this tournament a success.