Brigadier Japana Jayawardena excellent ruggerite and coach-By Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews Turning the pages of time, I go back to a outstanding rugby player, Brigadier J.P.A. (Japana) Jayawardena, who played for Trinity College in 1966 under Glen Vanlangenberg as a scrum half and was a very knowledgeable player. This combination of Glen at fly-half and Japana turned out to be a fine combination. His correct name is Jayadeva Parakrama Amarasekera Jayawardena. The name sounds J– P – A with N-A at the end as ‘Jayawardena’. He was a boarder from Junior School and it was in school he was nicknamed Japana “Japana”as he was affectionately known, won his rugby colours with Alex Lazarus, C.A. Chitty, M. de Silva,Shafie Jainudeen, R.T. Siriwardene,. P..S. Sundaralingam and R.W. Tillakaratne. He won the coveted ‘Rugby Lion’, along with Glen Vanlangenberg and P.S. Sundaralingam in 1966 During the time Japana played, Trinity won the Bradby Shield ...

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