Navy should have it easy against CH

The Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club should notch up their third win for the season when they take on the CH and FC in their Caltex 'A' Division League rugby match at Maitland Crescent today.

The sailors came back storming last week to hold the formidable CR and FC to a 18-all draw after being led 15-5 midway in the second half and should come up with another sterling display today having overcome Army (12-5) and Air Force (19-8) in their first two outings this year.

Up front the sailors should prevail over their counterparts with a powerful set of forwards. Skipper Yoshitha Rajapaksa has been a source of inspiration with his fiery loose play ably supported by Kalana Amarasinghe, Hamza Hassen, Piumal Manchanayake and Danushka Perera. CH and FC have lost all three matches to CR and FC (8-14), Kandy SC (19-41) and Police (13-17) and should give a much better display today if they hope to contain the sailors.

CH and FC Bimal Herath, Parakrama Ratnayake, Nazeer, Chaminda Herath, Chanaka Bandara, Nilusha Fernando, Mohamed Rifkan, Manasa Qoro (Jnr), Tuan Shamrock and Arfath Meedin, Lakala Perera (Captain), J Salusalu, Gayan Liyanage, Indika Udayakumara, Indika Wickramanayake.

Navy Piumal Manchanayake, Hamza Hassen, Sathya Ranatunga, Kalana Amarasinghe, Soyuru Anthony, Danushka Perera, Yoshitha Rajapaksa (captain), Sumedha Malewana, Suranga Pushpakumara and Dev Anand, Chula Susantha, Kosala Tissera, Dilip Methruwan, Niranjan Wickramaratne, Eranda Weerakkody.