Kandy SC has the edge over CH and FC
Defending champions Kandy Sports Club which is the only unbeaten team
in the Caltex ‘A’ Division League Rugby Tournament will go all out to
register their ninth successive win for the season when they confront CH
and FC in their match at Maitland Crescent today.
The lads from Kandy won the first round game by 30 points to 3 at
Nittawela and will be out to give a repeat performance today. CH and FC
has a fine set of forwards spearheaded by Sri Lanka player Dilanka
Wijesekara.
The CH ‘eight’ especially Jayantha Ranaweera, Sathya Ranatunge,
Dinesh Sanjeewa, Sharo Fernando and skipper Achala Perera have given of
their best this season and are capable of matching up to Kandy’s
power-packed forwards Kishore Jehan, Swarnatilleke, Senaka Bandara,
Dilip Selvam, Sajith Saranga and Sean Wijesinghe. The lads from Kandy
with a star studded three quarter line are likely to make the maximum
use of the ‘good ball’ which comes their way.
In Saliya Kumara and Fazil Marija they have a superb halves
combination while Gayan Weeraratne, Pradeep Liyanage, Sameera Silva and
Sanjeewa Jayasinghe are hard runners who are capable of breaching the CH
defence with full back Radhika Hettiarachchi joining the line to form
the overlap.
CH and FC have been let down by their three quarters and they will
hope that they will come up with a much better display today which would
help the club to give the lads from Kandy a close run.
CH and FC
Jayantha Ranaweera, Achala Perera (captain), Sathya Ranatunge, Dinesh
Sanjeewa, Gayashan Wijesinghe, Sharo Fernando, Dilanka Wijesekera, Bilal
Hassen, Milinda Jayasinghe and Naren Dhason, Shane Dissanayake, Sajith
Mallikarachchi, Avantha Hettiarachchi, Heshan Gunaratne, Indika
Udayakumara.
Kandy SC
Kishore Jehan, Aravinda Udangawa, Eranga Swarnatilleke, Senaka
Bandara, Sashika Jayawardena, Dilip Selvam, Sean Wijesinghe, Sajith
Saranga, Saliya Kumara and Fazil Marija, Sanjeewa Jayasinghe, Pradeep
Liyanage (captain), Gayan Weeraratne, Sameera Silva, Radhika
Hettiarachchi. |
