Hooker Damith has rendered yeoman service for Kandy SC Damith Dissanayake makes a break in the match against CR & FC. Pictures. by Upananda Jayasundera-Kandy Sports Spl.Corr Source:Dailynews Damith Dissanayake, one of the Senior Rugby players of Kandy Sports Club started his primary education at St.Sylvesters’ College, Kandy where he started playing Rugby under Nimal Fernando, a veteran Rugby Coach. Damith joined the Grade 8 of Trinity College,Kandy when R.Gilbert was the Principal of the School and learnt more about the game of rugby under the coaching of Robert Navaratne at Under 13 level. He continued under the coaching of Alex Lazarus at Under 16 Level and at Senior Level under Pradeep Basnayake, Anil Jayasinghe and a foreign Coach named Martin Jones. ...
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Roshan Weeraratne one of the best scrum halves-by Upananda Jayasundera (from left):Danushka Dissanayake, Roshan Weeraratne (in the middle) and Tharindu Chathuranga in action at the Kandy vs CR & FC match played in 2018. Source:Dailynews Roshan Weeraratne, one of the best scrum halves produced by Sri Lanka in this decade , started his rugby career at the age of 12 years at Kingswood College,Kandy. He started playing for the school for five years as an Under 13 Player and gradually got promoted to the first Fifteen and captained the School Rugby team to win the seven-a-side Rugby tournament and the A Division League Rugby tournament . under Fazil Marija . ...
Kingswood going great guns in rugby-by By Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews Kingswood College, Kandy, the first school in the country to play rugger,then known as Kandy Boy’s High School, took to the game due to the efforts of a Trinitian L.E. Blaze , the founder principal of the school in 1891 Subsequently the interest for rugby increased in popularity the first rugger fixture was between Trinity College and Kingswood on 11th day of August 1906 at Bogambara Grounds, and resulted in an exciting 6 all draw. This was the first-ever inter-school rugby game to be played in the country. After a few years after this game Kingswood gave up the game, because of a player dying on the field.,The game was reintroduced to the school in 1965 with an Under 17 team. , so the game went on and in the 1980’s, during the coaching of Z.M. Zarook a product of ...
Oct 24, 2020
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