D.H. de Silva the veteran cricketer and coach-by Upananda Jayasundera D.H.de Silva Source:Dailynews D.H. de Silva, popularly known as DH is a Veteran Cricketer and Tennis coach who was attached to the Kandy Municipality as the Municipal Commissioner, and he started training the young boys and girls in the Kandy City in Tennis at his leisure times. In addition he was coaching Cricket too as Cricket and Tennis were his favourite sports and mostly it was the Under 12 Children and some of the promising youngsters in his Tennis team were Sangakkara Brothers, Veminda and Kumar and a few others. ...
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Milroy Mendis passes away-by Hafiz Marikar Milroy Mendis Source:Dailynews Former St. Anthony’s College, Dharmaraja College, Outstation Schools, Kandy SC and Up-country ruggerite Milroy Mendis passed away in Kandy yesterday from COVID-19 complications. Milroy, served as coach, referee and was committee member of Kandy SC and Central Province Rugby Football Union. ...
Romesh Suranga outstanding soccerite, spiker and cricketer-by Dilwin Mendis St. Anthonys College Wattala Cricket Pool 2021 posed for a photograph just after an under 19 tournament match. Romesh Suranga is standing 7th from left in the back row. (Dilwin Mendis, Moratuwa Sports Special Correspondent) Source:Dailynews Cricketer, athlete, volleyball player and third year player, left hand opening bat, right arm off spinner and safe fielder in any position Pathmaperuma Arachchige Don Romesh Suranga has brought honour and fame to his Alma Mater St. Anthonys College Wattala. Romesh was born on 1st September 2001 and his parents Dinesh Prasanna and Anusha Ranjani admitted their son to their neighbouring school Seventh Day Adventist High School in 2007 to the Grade One and he joined one of the prestigious Catholic Educational Institutions in the island St. Anthonys College Wattala after passing the Ordinary Level Examination. Whilst at his first school he took part in ...
The Late Bishop Leo Nanayakkara It was the year 1958 when the Rt. Revd. Dr. Dom Leo Nanayakkara, O.S.B. was ordained Bishop of Kandy at the College Grounds. It came as a triumph to St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota because he was one who had been closely associated with the school. Bishop Leo spent the full period of his priesthood at St.Anthony’s. During almost the whole of this period, he was in charge of the Rainbow Cottages, the bewildering cluster of buildings, which housed the younger boarders of the College before they graduated into the Intermediate Section, The Mansion. Here he played a triple role in one-as-Father, Mother, Nursemaid all rolled into one. He had to see that the little boys were fed and washed and carefully looked after. ...
St. Anthony’s College Kandy Old Boys Association – Light from heaven – Bulletin of SACKOBA (Colombo Branch) – March 2021 Download the PDF file . ...
Apr 8, 2021
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eLanka Newsletter – 07 March 2021 – 1st edition – Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Phenomenal 2-letter word – By Des Kelly Obituary: Pandikoralage Sunil Chandra de Silva Watch Cricket Highlights – West Indies vs Sri Lanka T20 – March 2021 The Sunil de Silva I Knew – by Lal Wickrematunge Former Editor-in-Chief of ‘Daily News’, Senior Journalist, Diplomat Bandula Jayasekera passes away ( He also served as the Consul General of Sri Lanka in Toronto, Canada and in Sydney Australia) Health & Views February 1st issue 2021 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Hanthana Mountain Range – protected nature reserve in Kandy By Arundathie Abeysinghe The Cargills International Women’s Day Festival – The Change Makers – Day 1 – The Peace Prompters Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo Fmr SL cricketers Suraj Randiv, Chinthaka now working as bus drivers in ...
Mar 7, 2021
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CLOUD SMART CLASSROOM LAUNCH at St. Anthony’s College Please put the images and the following text after the images. Please title the images and make usre they are smaller size of about 600px width. Under Rev Fr. Henry’s leadership, a long-awaited e-learning database was introduced to college a few weeks ago through CodeGen (software company). Thanks to Covid, the e-learning industry across the world has seen rapid development in the past year. Our College embraced these changes in a timely manner, meeting new standards while launching Cloud Smart Classroom and in the process, offering a training programme for the academic staff. ...
Benedict Navaratne – the Prince of Wicket Keeprs – Zahira College & SSC – by Alston Mahadevan Source: Alston Mahadevan FB Ben Navaratne was the prince of wicket keepers. Benedict Navaratne (9 Jan 1915 – 9 June 1979) played for Zahira College before joining SSC. He made his international debut for Ceylon in 1940 when he was selected to tour India under the leadership of Sargo Jayawickrama. He made an unbeaten 23 on debut in the ‘unofficial’ Test match against India played at the Brabourne Stadium in Bombay from 31 December 1940. He was also selected to play against India in the three-day unofficial Test at the newly constructed Colombo Oval on 31 March, 1 and 2 April 1945. Navaratne like many young talented cricketers including Sathasivam and Bertie Wijesinha had very limited opportunities to play against Test playing nations for nearly 10 years due to the Second World ...
Feb 14, 2021
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St. Anthony’s has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in rugby-By Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews St.Anthony’s College, Katugastota has produced some top rugger players, from the day they took up the game of rugby. They took to rugby long after they played sports like cricket, boxing hockey, football and athletics. Only in the ‘1950’s they took an interest in the game of rugby with Bruce Winter as the first captain. The side was coached first by famous Trinity College product Bobby Jayaweera who did his best and later Maurice Perera helped in coaching. From the day, they handled the oval shaped ball, the game became very popular.. In the early days, it remained just an introduction of the game for quite some time, with no signs of attracting the enthusiasm of youthful Antonians.. Though they started rugby in the 1950’s it was only in 1961 that unprecedented enthusiasm was ...
Nov 24, 2020
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St. Sylvester’s, cradle of Hill Capital sportsmen-by Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews Old Sylvestrian sport stars gathered to celebrate 80th anniversary of the St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy. This school was founded on November 1, 1940 by Rev. Fr. D. Robert Perera O.S.B.. He was also the founder principal. They are housed at the former premises of St. Anthony’s College. This is a school that has produced some of the top class sportsmen. The motto of the school is ‘Success through dedication’. Later during the Primership of late S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike the school was taken over by the Government. A big hand should go to former principal late D.J.N. Senavirthne who did yeoman service followed by K.S.Gunaratne, W.B.Goppallawa, late Bertie Nillagoda, Asoka B.Hearth, T.R. Meetiyagoda, the present principal P.G.S. Bandara and also not to forget one time vice principal old Royalist Roy Amarasinghe. This school remains as the only school in the country if ...
Nov 23, 2020
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