Roland to coach Sylvestrians

S M Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy Sports Correspondent

Venue Manager at the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium at the recently concluded World Cup Roland Perera will coach St. Sylvesters’ College at the forthcoming cricket season.

Roland Perera is no stranger to St. Sylvester’s as he played with distinction as allrounder in the seventies and later coached the school for 12 years during which time they lost just one match. The high point of his career a cricket coach was when St. Sylverster’s College became all island schools under 19 Division One champions to win the Coca Cola Trophy in 1994.

They had to compete with leading schools in the island to win this plum. The sylvestrians were only the second school from the hill capital to win the schools division one title, the other being St. Anthony’s College which won in 1991 fielding a star studded side captained by Ruwan Kalpage, Legendary Muthiah Muralitharan, Piyal Wijetunga, Sajith Fernando, M. Ajaz, Umesh de Alwis, Nuwan Kalpage and others.

Roland Perera who is an experienced coach also played Sara trophy cricket for Moors Sports Club, Kandy Youths Cricket Club and Kandy Cricket Club during the various stages of his career.

As a cricket administrator, he has been the Secretary of the Kandy District Cricket Association and the Central Province Cricket Association, besides being the President of the Kandy branch of the Association of Cricket Umpires of Sri Lanka. He was the Treasurer of the Kandy District CA and held the post of President of Kandy Youths CC.

He is also the Regional selector of the Sri Lanka Cricket for the Central Province.

A highly experienced cricket coach with exceptional skills to extract the best out of a cricketer, the Sylverstrians should ride high once again under his guidance.