Ex-Rajans cricketer A.S. Ekanayake dies

Upananda Jayasundera Kandy Sports special correspondent

Anura Ekanayake, former Captain of Kandy Cricket Club passed away on September 11 (Sunday).

Popularly known as "A.S." the former cricketer of Dharmaraja College was in the victorious 1980 Dharmaraja Cricket team in the Annual Big Match against Kingswood under Janaka Mendis "A.S." kept wickets.

After leaving school A.S. joined Tobacco Company in 1980 and played Cricket for the Company at the Mercantile 'A' Division Cricket tournament for a number of years along with Mahinda Pethiyagoda, M. Sherifdeen, Sunil Wickremanayake, Tissa Wijeratne, Janaka Weerasinghe and Lalith Wijeratne to name a few. He also represented Kandy Cricket Club and started playing under Mahinda Pethiyagoda, his schoolmate in the Sara Trophy Cricket tournament and played for eight years. Later on he captained the team.

His funeral will be held on September 14 (Wednesday) at the Mahaiyawa Cemetery, Kandy at 4 p.m.