Old Rajans meet Kingswoodians

Upananda Jayasundera, Kandy Sports Special Corr

Old Rajans meet Old Kingswoodians in their annual 50 overs cricket encounter on November 27 at Lake View commencing at 10 am.

The winning team will receive Arthur Alwis Memorial Challenge Shield presented by the Colombo Old Boys Branch of Dharamaraja College and Clifford Ratnavibushana Memorial Challenge Shield presented by Kingswood Union, Kandy.

The late Arthur Alwis is the first centurion in the Dharmaraja-Kingswood Big Match when he scored a century in 1942.

The late Clifford Ratnavibushana scored the highest number of runs for Kingswood when he scored 167 in the 1957 Big Match.

Two teams are as follows:

OLD RAJANS: Ajith Naranpanawe (captain), Senaka Dissanayake, Prasanna Walalawala, Wasantha Guneratne, Udaya Yatawara, Chapa Weeraratne, Harold Ranasinghe, Senaka Pieirs, Thilak Wijeratne, Dananjaya Navaratne, Lalith Weragoda, Prasanna Dahanayake, Pradeep Heenkenda, Sarath Munaweera, Ajith Palihakkara.

OLD KINGSWOODIANS: Upula Senarath (captain), Ananda Kasturiarachchi, Krishantha Gunaratne, Sujeewa Fernando, Prasanna Ediriweera, Upul Sumanasekera, Naushad Shawal, Gayan Fernando, Hilmy Gafoor, Vijitha Dissanayake, Nalin Cooray, M N T Gamage, K A Nishantha, Danushka Weerakkody, Asanga Ranasinghe.