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Mervyn Rodrigo was a fine cricketer and athlete-by Upananda Jayasundera Mervyn Rodrigo Source:Dailynews Mervyn Rodrigo, former Outstation Schoolboy Cricketer produced by St. Sylvesters’ College, Kandy is a rare person who was equally good in sports as well as studies and he became a graduate in Science at the University of Peradeniya. He was able to score five centuries and among them are against Carey College, Colombo, Maliyadewa College, Kurunegala and St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota, hence he was selected as the first Outstations Schoolboy cricketer. He started his cricket career at the age of 14 years under the coaching of Robert Wright and Chandra de Silva and he had the opportunity to captain the School Cricket team along with Maithri Rajapakse, Jagath Wijesekera (who became Doctors in Medicine later on) Neville Herathge, Hinton Karunathillake and Jerry Alexander to name a few. ...