Ellie Boatman scored four . but instead England suffered only the second one-run defeat in Test history. 1,535 Sri Lanka Rugby Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 1,535 Sri Lanka Rugby Premium High Res Photos Browse 1,535 sri lanka rugby stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Thurstans rich and colorful rugby history is over 48 years old. During this period Thurstan won against St Thomas Mt lavinia for the first time and defeated Royal in 1991 under Asela Weerasignhea (a nippy scrum half who played for Havelocks but gave up prematurely) and in 1992 under Ruwan Sirisena. Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Galle, ICC World Test Championship 1st Test, Jul 16-20, 2022 [ Test # 2472] Sri Lanka v Australia at Galle, ICC World Test Championship 2nd Test, Jul 8-11, 2022 [. Chaminda Samaranyake who played for Thurstan from 1889 to 1992, Played for CR&FC and latter for Police SC before injury kept him away from professional rugby. It was also the champion of the President's Trophy Knockout Tournament in 1977, 1983, 19901994 and 2007. Supporters called them the Red Shirts because of their uniform and club colours.[3]. In 2009 Sri Lanka again finished third in the Divisional tournament defeating Thailand (51-17) in the 3rd-place final, remaining in Division One. Thurstan was the second government school to take to rugby and from the inception started playing with all leading teams. 19071908 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain, 1950 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, 1999 Rugby World Cup Asia qualification, 2003 Rugby World Cup Asia qualification, 2007 Rugby World Cup Asia qualification, 2008 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, 2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, 2010 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, 2011 Rugby World Cup Asia qualification, 2012 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, 2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, 2015 Asian Rugby Championship Division Tournaments, 2016 Asian Rugby Championship Division Tournaments, List of Sri Lanka national rugby union team results, "Sri Lanka end UAE's dreams of Asia Rugby Championship glory - Sport360 News", Sri Lanka to host Rugby Asiad in November this year, "Sri Lanka is Asia's newest Top 5 team after winning HSBC Final", "(Rugby) Malaysia upset Sri Lanka in Asian Rugby Championships", Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union official web site, List and results of all IRB sanctioned international rugby games played by Sri Lanka, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sri_Lanka_national_rugby_union_team&oldid=1134938565, This page was last edited on 21 January 2023, at 16:26. Success was not long in coming and with brave and intelligent play against all opponents; Peterites first tasted success in 1934 recording the first Rugby win against Royal College at Bambalapitiya by 5-0 under the captaincy of Shirley Illesinghe. I am sure that the message of instilling respect to others, inculcating values and enhancing leadership qualities in players through Rugby will be carried forward another 100 years and more.. In the 2010 tournament, they made it to the finals beating Chinese Taipei 37 to 7. (Trinity Cricket Captain 1974 and 1975, and Cricket Lion in 1975. SRI LANKA RUGBY. November 15, 2022 Reports emerge that Sri Lanka Women's Rugby Captain Dulani Pallekondage has gone missing while participating at the Asia Rugby Seven's Series Tournament in South Korea. Now you can . Cricket Big Match Batting Double (50 & Over in each Inn), Batting Series Aggregate. The under 24 open rugby 7s championship, organized by the Western Province Rugby Football Union was held at the Police Park on 11th September 2022. Today we all enjoy this tradition, and it is set to last forever! This was the year dashing Peterite winger Mohamed Rinaz set a new schools record for most number of tries with a final tally standing at 34. Under the able guidance of Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne, Navy athletes have made a number of achievements in recent times as a result of thriving atmosphere in the Navy for the promotion of sports. The Junior squad also faring brilliantly against all opponents in their own right. Then in 2018 under Javed Zarook and Kenneth Wimaladasa they clinched the Presidents Trophy and repeated this achievement in 2019 under Bilal Hilmy and emerged runners up in the League. And finally in1998under the captaincy of Nuwan Kumara, Thurstan were able to topple Isipathana after 35 years and creamed up with winning the prestigious Presidents trophy for the first time. In an attempt to highlight the prestigious history and years of tradition within the Sri Lankas schools rugby community, ThePapare.com compiled and published this list of former champions in the schools rugby league some time ago. Established in 1922, the club has won the Clifford Cup Knockout Tournament twelve times. Thurstans ascendancy to big league was in1963,and enjoyed one of the finest seasons in the history with a historic win over Royal College at the University grounds. Ground & Pavilion Secretary, Mr. Janinda Dunuwille Hony. Tikiri Marambe- former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain (Rugger Lion in 1971; also Captained both Air Force and the Defence Services XV. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. Sri Lanka won Division One of the 2010 Divisional tournament beating Singapore (23-16) in the final, thereby winning promotion to the 2011 Asian Five Nations for the first time.[8]. The club also maintains a senior Men's Rugby Union team. The country's top rugby playing club Kandy SC are good at counting the number of times they have won the League title and with their latest pull-out from the Clifford Cup knock out tournament they could also end up keeping a dubious count in history of the number of times they let down their adoring fans.Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) the promoters of the Clifford Cup are as equally Topping the points table, the Navy SC won the Plate segment over other competitors and got hold of their trophy on 16th September. Fr. The match was also memorable for the sporting gesture of Thurstan skipper Suranga Kulawickrama who stepped down for this match to give his deputy Lalindra Jinadasa to do the honors. Email or phone: Password: . [1], The club was founded in 1922 by Colonel E. H. Joseph. Best All Rounder in the Trinity Junior School in 1969.). | All Rights Reserved. Isipathana College leads the winners tally with 18 title wins followed by Royal College with 11 wins. He has represented Sri Lanka in 90 tests and 268 one-day internationals in which he has managed to rack up 5504 and 8529 runs respectively. Lakshman Kadirgamar - holder of the All India Inter University Hurdles Record both at Ahmedabad and Allahabad (Winner of the coveted Athletics Lion and the inaugural winner of the Duncan White Challenge Cup for Athletics in 1948. RUGBY CAPTAIN'S LIST 2014 - Shenal Aponso 2013 - Shan Weerakkody (all island 7s winners) 2012 - Danushka Ranjan (a current Sri Lanka cap) 2011 - Banuka Nanauakkara (all island Western Province 7s winners) 2010 - Keith Gurusinghe - (unbeaten triple Champions - 7s, league and knockout champions) 2009 - Dilshan Paul (Carlton 7s Winners) White. 07/01/2018. Lock Forward and Rugger Lion of the Champion unbeaten Rugby XV led by Chan Ye Ching which has three unbroken records in schools rugby in 1974- 70/8 vs S. Thomas' College, 64/3 vs St Anthony's College and 53/3 vs Wesley. Also in that team were Trinitians -Chaminda Unantenne, NLK Rathnayake (later Sri Lanka Cricketer) and Mevan Ballale (third generation Trinitian to be wicketkeeper/ batsman) in the same team. Awarded coveted Trinity Cricket Lion after his career best 8/83 for Sri Lanka vs Pakistan in the second Test at the Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot, Pakistan on the second day of the Test on October 28, 1985 in the 1985 away series which was a then Sri Lanka Test record for a bowler. Srinath Gunasekara (Captain 64, represented Colombo Schools & University), Indra De Silva (Captain 65, represented Ceylon schools & coached Thurstan in 1968), Dushyantha Samarasekara (Captained CR&FC, Secretary SLRFU), Wimal Kulathunge CR&FC, E.K.R.Wijewardana (Police SC), Vernon Caldera (NCC) and Ananda Karunaratne were some of the other stalwarts of this team. Since then Thurstan has played almost all the president trophy tournaments. They have the longest tradition of organised club rugby in Asia, dating back to 1879, which was just 8 years after the founding of the world's first rugby union in England. The Navy Sports Club (SC) won the western province under 24 open rugby 7s championship and crowned as plate champion in the Nippon Paint Inter Club Rugby League 2021/2022 recent rugby encounters. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Wales will . Sudarshana Peiris-23/02/2023. Copyright 2021 | St.Peters College, Bambalapitiya, Sri Lanka. The club colours are those of the regiment commanded by its founder, E. H. Joseph. He latter coached Thurstan with his brother Vipula Dharmadasa. Liked by Umar Nizmi. Emotions ran high as Peterites were adjudged Joint Champs (with Trinity College) of the inter-collegiate Rugby tournament. National Rugby Kandy secure 8th consecutive title as Air Force take the Plate. St. Peters College has produced many brilliant rugby players in her 90 year old Rugby history feeding National teams with high quality players both with skills and discipline coming out of its system in every decade. Read about Records, / , Sri Lanka Women, / , Women's Test matches, / , List of captains Cricket Team Records only on ESPNcricinfo.com. 2004Thurstan team was captained by Sadun Kumara. Chula Dharmadasa was a national selector and president of CR&FC. ThePapare.com is a comprehensive and interactive hub for news on Sri Lankan national, club and school sports. S. Thomas, St. Peter's and Trinity have all won the title 4 times each. This era saw number of Thurstanites donning the CR jersey and Sathyapriya Liyanage (later played for Army), G.L.Thilekerathne, R.L.Hewa and N.B.Ravindra and K.N.Sirikumara (captained Petersons) are few of the names. In 1991 Thurstan qualified for the presidents trophy under the leadership of Asela Weerasinghe for the first time, and was unfortunate to loose to Ananada College in the semi finals in the penalty shootout. Features for members include a billiard room, squash courts, lighted tennis courts, a gymnasium, a swimming pool and an indoor badminton court. (Malcolm) Wright- former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain (Rugby Lion in 1943. Rohan Perera- President of the Squash Federation of Sri Lanka. In the 2008 Peterites were also crowned the President;s trophy winners under Poornaka Depachithra. Captain Chamari Athapaththu's player of the match winning 68 off 50 guided Sri Lanka women to a three run win over hosts South Africa in the 2023 Women's T20 World Cup opener on Friday. CR & FC has had a number of its players play for the Sri Lanka national rugby union team. (Trinity Cricket Lion, Senior Prefect and Ryde Gold Medalist of 1996), Joseph Ravindran (Ravi) Ratnayeke - former Sri Lanka Vice Captain of Cricket -Opening bowler, part-time opening batsman. And for the first time in Thurstan history the rugby match commentaries were given in the SLBC and Sunil Karunanayake shared the mike with Diyanesh Rajarathnam in this memorable encounter where rugby was seen at its best. Beat St. Andrew College of Singapore but lost narrowly to Wajirawood College of Thailand where the foreign teams were Under 21 and Trinity was Under 19. (Trinity captain of Boxing in 1939 and Coloursman in 1940. The fixtures for the team Sri Lanka are all set to be taking place from Oct 18, 2021. ), Malsri Kurukulasuriya - former Canadian national cricket coach (Trinity cricket Lion), Chaminda Unnantenne - Represented Sri Lanka U-19 Cricket. 2017 Rugby fixture was officially handed over to the manager of Wesley College and the President/ Bishop of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka, Rev. He also oversaw an unbroken last-wicket stand of 78 with Vishwa Fernando where the last man made a gutsy six not out off 27 balls faced. The occasion was also attended by Director General Services, Rear Admiral Neville Ubayasiri, Chairman of Navy Rugby, Commodore Sanath Pitigala, Secretary of Navy Rugby, Captain Thusitha Abesundara and a group of naval personnel from the Rugby Pool. Enter your email address to receive all company news, special offers and other discount information. It is located between latitudes 555 and 951 N and longitudes 7941 and 8153 E and has a maximum length of 268 miles (432 km) and a maximum width of 139 miles (224 km). Ollie Pope - 7. Geff Rutnam undoubtedly takes top billing as a Ceylon Captain (it was under Geffs captaincy that Ceylon scored her first ever international win against the Paris universitys club in 1970) and National Coach, Dushyantha Samarasekera was the secretary SLRFU/Asian Rugby Board and president of CR&FC, Sunil Jayakody National selector and President Dimbula A.C, Chula Dharmadasa National selector and President of CR&FC, Harsha Mayadunne President SLRFU. Also Cricket Captain and Lion in 1968. History records that Thurstan began playing rugby in 1957. Harris Omar - former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain (Trinity Captain and Rugger Lion 1996), Pradeep Basnayake- former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain (Trinity Vice-Captain and Rugger Lion 1996), Imthie Marikkar - former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain (Winger/ Rugger Lion in Tyrrell Rajapaksas unbeaten team of 1987), Dr KB Sangakkara, Sri Lanka Rugger Captain (Trinity Rugger Captain, Senior Prefect and Ryde Gold Medalist), Dr Willie Ratnavale - former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain (Trinity Rugby Captain), Ajith Abeyaratne Sri Lanka Rugby Coach, Chairman of National Selectors, Captain of the Ceylonese Rugby and & Football Club. During his tenure, St. Peters produced four schools rugby champion sides, namely: Under Darrel Wimaleratne in 1965, under Hamzi Hameed in 1966, under Jeffery De Jong in 1972 and under Rohan Wiratunga in 1973 (as Joint Champs). However In 2002 under Dilanka Wijesekera, St. Peters became the A Division Schools Champions thus becoming the first Peterite champion side of the new millennium. 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