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Maralanda played for ‘fun’ but his deeds were professional – BY HAFIZ MARIKAR Source:Sunday Observer Nimal Maralanda was a famous Trinity College and Sri Lanka rugby player and cricketer who was a classy fly half of the calibre of Archibald Perera, Ago Paiva, Mohan Sahayam, Glen Vanlangenberg, Irwin Howie,  Frank Hubert, Omar Sheriff. Maralanda first played rugby for his school in 1956 under the guidance of late Col. Bertie Dias and the leadership of DN Frank and that year Trinity was rated as the best school team. His team mates were Ken de  Joodt, MV Boteju, AJW Baalthazar, Franklyn Jacob, RJ de Silva, G. Weerasinghe, U. Attanayake, J. Dias de Singhe, Uvais Odayar, RN de Alwis, SP de Silva, ASB Ellepola and Mike de Alwis and that year they won  both the Bradby legs 15-0 and 11-0.   ...