The Royal-Thomian Cricket Match: Its History-by Uthpala Wijesuriya Source:Thuppahis Uthpala Wijesuriya, in The Island, 17 March 2023,where the title presented is “The Earth’s Greatest Rivalry” … while the highlighting in this presentation has been imposed by a Thuppahiyaaaaaaaaa. The Royal-Thomian or the Battle of the Blues, the world’s second oldest uninterrupted cricket battle, will unveil for the 144th consecutive year this week. The encounter pits the boys bearing the crests of the Elephant and Palm Tree against those bearing the Cross and Dove. The Royal-Thomian is in many ways greater and more epic than the three matches that can be most favorably compared to it: St Peters–Prince Alfred in Australia, Eton–Harrow in Britain, and the Ashes. This is particularly so in the annals of schoolboy cricket in Sri Lanka. Indeed, the history of Sri Lankan cricket cannot be written without the Battle of the Blues. ...
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Earth’s Greatest Rivalry-By Uthpala Wijesuriya Source:Island The Royal-Thomian or the Battle of the Blues, the world’s second oldest uninterrupted cricket battle, will unveil for the 144th consecutive year this week. The encounter pits the boys bearing the crests of the Elephant and Palm Tree against those bearing the Cross and Dove. The Royal-Thomian is in many ways greater and more epic than the three matches that can be most favorably compared to it: St Peters – Prince Alfred in Australia, Eton – Harrow in Britain, and the Ashes. This is particularly so in the annals of schoolboy cricket in Sri Lanka. Indeed, the history of Sri Lankan cricket cannot be written without the Battle of the Blues. ...
Mar 19, 2023
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History of The STC Prefects Group – by Sriyan Jayasekera The Past Prefects of S. Thomas’ College hosted their 12th Annual Prefects’ Dinner in the premises of The Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) in Colombo, on 13th March, 2023. This was following a hiatus of two years on account of the intervening Covid pandemic. This year’s Chief Guest was General Srilal Weerasooriya, former Commander of the Sri Lanka Army. The main feature of this year’s event was that it was managed by a committee unlike in the past, when it was organized by a few. It turned out a roaring success with well over one hundred participants. Around the year 2006 we felt impelled to felicitate our past teachers, who now spend the evening of their lives even as their numbers were fast diminishing. To organize this we formed a group consisting of about 60 past prefects from 1969 to 1973. However, we felt this group was ...
Mar 17, 2023
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BEYOND THE CALL OF COACHES – By Capt Elmo Jayawardena Winds of College cricket are blowing right across the island, and Colombo is rocking with the fanfare of trumpets and unfurling flags heralding the ‘Big Match’ fever. Outstations too have their own carnival cricket with the likes of ‘Battle of the Golds’ in Moratuwa, the ‘Mangosteen Match’ of Kalutara plus another 100 such encounters, filling the weekend timetables. People arrive from all parts of the world to participate in this pulsating event. Conversations become rich with cricketing anecdotes. First to broach the subject with me a week ago was Dr Ranjith Amarasekara who batted ‘one down’ in the big match played under the mercurial Michael Tissera. That’s going pretty far back but, interestingly, still in vogue, when talking ‘Big Matches’. Who scored a century and who missed catches are common ‘Royal-Thomian’ chitchat. Who was the ‘Bok-ku man’ that frequently sent ...
Mar 16, 2023
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Royal Thomian activities during the January-February period A quick wrap up of activities during the January-February period is below. Sports Corner – “ The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you and you don’t have to listen.” The tradition continued with the 28th Royal Thomian encounter in Sydney on Australia Day at the Punchbowl Oval. Attendees – players and supporters alike – had a memorable day, enjoying the ambiance, Sri Lankan food and of course the amazing cricket played on the day of the mini version of the much anticipated 144th encounter scheduled to be played in Colombo in a few weeks’ time. Safe travels to those of you making it across the ocean to witness the great encounter in person. Results – Open STC won by 80 runs, Masters RC by 5 wickets, Classics RC by 6 wickets. Many thanks to the STC OBA NSW/ACT who organised the event this year. Two days later, ...
SYDNEY’S ‘ROYAL THOMIAN’ – THE TRADITION LIVES ON! Source : stcobasydney On Australia Day, the sun shone brightly down on Sydney, a perfect public holiday. The teams donned their college cricket uniforms, gathered at the Punchbowl Oval, for an early morning breakfast readying themselves for the annual 28th Royal Thomian Opens, Masters and Classics encounters. This year STC OBA hosted the Annual NSW Royal Thomian Cricket Carnival with the planning done in close association with RC. The Games featured three limited overs matches; Classics (limited to those over 60 years) for the Sunil De Silva trophy Masters (limited to those over 50 years) for the Morrel trophy Open (to the best that each school is able to field) for the EC Gunasekaran Trophy For weeks prior to the game, the teams had gone through challenges in preparations to get the teams together. It was the usual unforeseen trouble as soon as ...
Feb 11, 2023
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Royal Thomian 1960 – Royalists carrying coffin says STC RIP Royal Thomian 1960. Royalists are carrying coffin says STC RIP. Guy in the front carrying a spade to dig the grave. Went round the Oval 3 times. Third time Thomians attacked and a fight started. ...
A Joe-Pete big match with a change-BY PRANAVESH SIVAKUMAR Source:Sundayobserver Joining only a selective cast of big match encounters, the Joe-Pete encounter too will proceed on May 28 and 29, officials of both schools confirmed exclusively to the Sunday Observer . However, in a significant change, the 87th edition of the Battle of the Saints between St. Joseph’s College and St. Peter’s College will be played at the Sinhalese Sport Club (SSC) probably behind closed-doors away from its traditional venue the P. Sara Oval. An official of the Peterite camp, who is also a member of the joint-organising committee, said that logistics played a part in picking the SSC ground to host the match. “We’re having a little bit of an issue with crowd control. We’ve, anyways, been looking at the SSC for quite some time and not really had an opening. But, we’ve had superb support from the Tamil ...
SPORTING ROYALTY When Lorenz Pereira reigned supreme Lorenz Pereira captained the Combined College Cricket Team in 1958 Standing L – R: M.L. Idroos (STC), Raja de Silva (SJC), Anton Perera (SPC), Kingsley Fernando (St. Seb C), Priya Perera (SJC), Y. Amaradasa (Ananda), Suranjith Mendis (POW). Seated L – R: Lionel Fernando (SBC), Lorenz Pereira (Royal), L.R. Gunatilleke (Wesley C) and Sarath Samarasinghe (Royal). Eustace Lorenz Pereira could quite easily be regarded as the most outstanding sportsman produced in the 180-year-old history of Royal College, Colombo, an academic institution that can trace its beginnings way back to 1835. As the college song goes “and thence did Lanka’s learning thrive.” Lorenz (Lollo to some), as he is affectionately known, excelled – and that is merely putting it mildly –with five colours in major sports – cricket, rugby, tennis, athletics and, in addition, Public Schools athletics colours. He also captained the Royal cricket ...
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Apr 28, 2016
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