Dr Kapuwatte heads Kandy Sports Club
S M Jiffrey Abdeen- Kandy Sports Corr
Dr Sarath Kapuwatte was elected President for a record 19th time
while New Zealander Neale Foote was appointed new rugby coach of Kandy
Sports Club at the 138th Annual General Meeting of the Club held at the
Auditorium at Nittawela on Sunday.
Former Kingswood College and Sri Lanka centre three quarter Gayan
Weeraratne was also appointed captain for the forthcoming inter-club
rugby season which is expected to commence in November this year.
The Trustee of the Club Malik Samarawickrema addressing the
membership said that after a long run of 13 years they could not retain
the League title which they lost to Havelocks Sports Club who in turn
won it after 31 years. The difference between the two clubs was the
performance of the foreign players while the local players were almost
the same or the Kandy players were even better.
Havelocks Sports Club obtained the services of some top foreign
players who delivered the goods while the foreign players contracted by
Kandy failed to perform and this had a big impact and when this was
discovered it was too late to make changes.
He said that we must learn from our mistakes and we are not going to
make the same mistakes again and we will strive hard to win the league
title this season. In announcing the appointment of New Zealander Neale
Foote as the Club’s coach said that he is no stranger to Sri Lanka and
he has coached Trinity College for the past three seasons and will
continue to do so this year too.
Patron – Dharmasiri Madugalle
President – Dr Sarath Kapuwatte
Trustees – Malik Samarawickrema, Hemaka Amarasuriya, Dr Sarath
Kapuwatte.
Senior Vice President – Nihal Ratwatte
Vice Presidents – Hafiz Marikar, Emil Vander Poorten
Secretary – Mahesh Weerasinghe
Treasurer – Channa Jayatillake
Ground Secretary – Nimal Gunasekera
Pavilion Secretary – Udaya Balasuriya
Games Captains - (Rugby) Gayan Weeraratne, (PT) Sean Wijesinghe,
(Billiards) Maurice Joachim.
Committee – Rohan Daulugala, Anton Nanayakkara, Lasantha Wijesuriya,
Anuruddha Ranasinghe, Sanjeewa Tennekoon, J B Attanayake, Ranjit
Gooneratne, Sujeewa Liyanage, Samnsheer Jaleel, Niyaz Majeed, Leslie de
Zoysa.
SLRFU Representative – Shyam Siddik
CPRFU Representative – Maurice Joachim
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