Eighteen member rugby pool for Borneo Sevens

Ranjeeva Seneviratne

The Selection Committee of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union has picked three schoolboys in the 18 member pool picked in preparation for the Borneo Sevens in Malaysia on October 31 and November 1, 2009.

Kingswoodian Roshan Weeraratne, Dharmaraja’s Darshana Etipola and Isipatana’s Vishawamithra Jayasinghe have been included in the pool while the experienced duo of Pradeep Liyanage and Saliya Kumara make a welcome return to the side after missing the Shanghai Sevens.

With Ronnie Ibrahim who coached the Sri Lanka team, having resigned as coach the Interim Committee of the SLRFU will name a new coach for the Sri Lanka Sevens team.

Dharshana Etipola and Roshan Weeraratne have been rewarded for their excellent performances in the Youth Rugby Asiad in Hong Kong.

The Sri Lanka Rugby Sevens pool: Chamara Vithanage, Saliya Kumara, Pradeep Liyanage, Dilip Selvam (all from Kandy SC), Ashen Karthelis, Lasantha de Costa, Dushanth Lewke, Dinesh Kumara (all from CR and FC), Nuwan Hettiarachchi, Samantha Lakshan, Suranga Pushpakumara, Ravi Jayasuriya (all from Navy), Niranjan Wickramaratne, Sharo Fernando (CH and FC), Saliya Handapangoda (Army), Dharshana Etipola (Dharmaraja), Vishwamithra Jayasinghe (Isipatana) Roshan Weeraratne (Kingswood).