Old Boys cricket quadrangular in Kandy
The 42nd annual Old Boys Quadrangular Cricket\Basketball Tournament
conducted by the Old boys of the catholic schools St.Benedict's, St.
Joseph's, St. Anthony's Katugasthota and St.Peter's will be hosted this
year in Kandy, by the Anthonians today and tomorrow.
The main quadrangular semi finals will take place on August 22nd when
the Old Anthonians take on the Old Peterites at Katugasthota and the Old
Bens meet the Old Joes at the Peradeniya Campus grounds. Both matches
are 50 overs per side and is scheduled to start at 10 am.
In the veterans over 40 semi finals (25 overs) the Old Anthonians
will meet Old Peterites at the Police grounds at 9.30 am while the Old
Bens will confront the Old Joes at 2.00 pm at the same venue. The semi
finals of the basketball tournament will take place on the first day
(22nd August) and the finals(cricket & basketball) will be played on
Sunday 23rd at Katugasthota. Ranjith Samarsekera, the former Colts CC
captain and a distinguished old Anthonian, who presided over a press
briefing held at the Old Bens Sports Club pavilion with regard to the
tournament, said that the quadrangular tournament was the brain child of
the Old Bens initiated for the OBU's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Variuos schools were invited to play in a tournament. However, only
three catholic schools responded positively to the invitation. Hence,
St. Anthony's College which is 155 years old , followed by St.
Benedict's , St.Joseph's and St.Peter's took part from the initial year
in 1963.
Teams for main Quadrangular Cricket Tournament.
Old Bens: Suranga Illangange (Captain), Raily Tissera, Pradeep
Dassanayake, Rajive Amal, Bernard Karunaratne, Kasun Perera, Lahiru
Jayampathy, Prabath Maldunuarachchi, Chanaka Wijesinghe, S.K.Perera,
Dunstan Wallace, Loresh de Silva, Patrick Anandappa, Dinesh
Widanarachchi, Namal Weerasinghe, Tharindu Heshan, Torrel Hopwood,
Prashan Boteju, Asanga Fonseka, Mahesh Perera.
St.Anthony's Katugasthota: Nuwan Ratnayake, Prasad Ranawaka,
Indika Fernando, Champika Siriwardena, Dilshan Vitharana, Selvin Jemion,
Gimhan Dissanayake, Daminda Kolugala, Peter Samarakoon, Harshana
Medagoda, Hirosh Jayasekera, C. Wijewardena, M. Patrick, D.Basnayake,
Chinthaka Girihagama, Shameer Munaz, Chamila Samarajeeva,M .Pawaz,
Mahesh Palihakkara.
St. Peter's: Malinda Warnapura (Captain).Samindha Gallage,
Malin Silva, Gihan de Silva, Chrishantha Pieris, Sheahan Wijetunga,
Lahiru Pieris, Indunil Anthony, Rukshan Dias, Dasun Randika, Niranjan
Dabare,Sohan Boralessa, Denver Faux, Hans Fernando, Umar Samsudeen,Riaz
Farouk, Dinesh Kekulthota, Krishal Magage. (RA)
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