When St. Peters of Adelaide toured Ceylon in January 1928-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis St. Peters College in Adelaide is an elite boys public school that has produced several Prime Ministers of South Australia and schooled many prominent figures in Australian life.  The school’s cricket team chose to tour Ceylon in the month of January 1928 and played matches against Royal College, S. Thomas’ College and Trinity; and also against a team of planters at the grounds in Darrawella in the hill country. Image Source:Thuppahis The scoring book is part of the school archives and so too a photograph of the whole squad intermingled with the Thomian squad.  This picture can be considered a “treasure” because of the personnel embraced therein: notably Canon de Saram (then Vice-Principal of S. Thomas);  one Dudley S. Senanayake (who became one Ceylon’s Prime Ministers); Richard Hermon (captaining S. Thomas); Robert Senanayake (later a President of the Board of Control for Ceylon Cricket in the 1950s ...

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BAMBALAPITIYA FLATS IN THE SWINGING SIXTIES ‘N’ SEVENTIES – By Asiff Hussein Source : Ceylon Then / Sri Lanka Now Bambalapitiya Flats was the place to be back then, as any good ole’ Bamba boy or girl will tell you. Built in the 1950s, the 16 blocks of buildings between Galle Road and the Indian Ocean comprised of two to four storeys built in such a way that the balconies gave a splendid view of the sea to the west. The blocks back then were colour coded for easy identification, with gelati colours like yellow, orange, pink, sky blue, lime green, and sandstone brown giving life to the scheme, especially in the evening when the golden orange orb of the sun set in the sea and bathed the flats with a beautiful sundown glow. The flats were meant to nurture community life with all sharing a common space that included a ...

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Peterites stun Australians as Vidyartha snatch last minute win over Malaysians in Centenary Sevens Source:Sundayobserver St. Peter’s College scored a shock win over the Australian team from the University of Technology in Sydney beating them by 24 points to 5 in their Centenary Rugby Sevens match at Bambalapitiya yesterday. The first half ended in a close 5-5 score but the Peterites out-ran and outsmarted the Australian boys in a one-sided contest in the second half. The Peterites started off the first day’s proceedings by smashing off Thurstan 29-0 and then went on to beat Zahira College 38-8 before taking on the foreign team. ...

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The first winning Peterite Cager team – By James Alagaratnam  It’s been 60 years since. When five friends won it all at the inter-school basketball championships. (The 1963 All-Island Basketball Champions, St. Peter’s).                              Noting with pride, the current successes of St. Peter’s at the interschool basketball championships, I felt it appropriate, to write of the first championship team of college in 1963. We won it all. My interest in Basketball started at Junior level, grade 6 or 7 when older brother Stephen was playing for the college team, coached by – Mr. Jackie van Twest- of the tutorial staff(inset). The courts were at the north east corner of then grounds, running parallel with Davidson Road. The north perimeter walls bounded two houses that belonged to the Wiratunga’s and the Chandraratne’s. Lynn and brothers, Daya and Tissa ...

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Isipathana – St. Peter’s Cup final after 15 years-by Chris Dhambarage Action from the league tournament match between Isipathana and St. Peter’s. (Pic courtesy ThePapre.com) Source:Dailynews Isipathana College and St. Peter’s College will revive their rivalry once again as the two top teams this season are set for an epic clash in the Inter-Schools Under-19 President’s Trophy Knock-Out Rugby Tournament final on Sunday at the Royal Sports Complex in Colombo. This match will have a great amount of significance for both teams as they will be meeting in the President’s Trophy Knock-Out Tournament final after a lapse of 15 years. In fact, it was way back in 2008 that Isipathana and St. Peter’s last met in the knock-out final where the lads from Bambalapitiya emerged victorious 16-11 after a thrilling contest at the Royal Sports Complex. It was a jubilant Captain Poornaka Delpachithra who received the Milo Presidents Trophy from ...

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EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES THAT PETERITES STARTED BEFORE THE JOSEPHIANS – Algi Wijewickrema St. Peter’s College was launched as St. Joseph’s College, Colombo South by Rev. Fr. Maurice Le Goc, the visionary Rector of St. Joseph’s College in 1922 and obviously sports and many other extracurricular activities were introduced by St. Joseph’s from early years. Two examples are Cricketers studying at St. Peter’s playing for St. Joseph’s College up until a separate team represented St. Peter’s in 1927 and Football launched at St. Peter’s in 1925 while it was still St. Joseph’s College Colombo South. Although it is obvious that this should be the natural order of things, as St. Peter’s progressed as a College independent of St. Joseph’s after 1927, there are at least three activities that St. Peter’s College introduced before its brother school. This should not come as a surprise to anyone, least of all to Peterites as their ...

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eLanka Newsletter – 23rd July 2023 – 7th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Anton’s Swan Song – by Lal Wickrematunge Sri Lanka Lions Sports Club – NSW SEEKING FOR NEW PLAYERS Australian passports just became more powerful: Here are the countries you can now enter visa-free-by Low De Wei ANOTHER REQUEST BY DIMUTH ON TEST CAPTAINCY – By Sunil Thenabadu Noel News Health & Views – July 1st Issue – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Reminiscing – by Charmaine Candappa EU funded SEDR Project completes 5-day training programme for Mediation Training Officers SUNDAY CHOICE – Your grace is sufficient for me – by Charles Schokman Australia retain the women’s Ashes in thrilling fashion Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 167 20 07 23 The Brad and Kiara Show Podcast – 2023-7-22 How not to lose a fortune – combating the ...

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Royal players avert show spoiler as Peterites win blockbustre Centenary Rugby Sevens-BY CALLISTUS DAVY Source:Sundayobserver The champion St. Peter’s College team comprising Dulaj Navodya, Vishenka Silva, Yometh Shehara, Ashen Madugaspe (captain), Emith Jayaweera, Praneeth Silva, Salith Gallage, Kushan Tharindu, Sulaimaan Riyaz, Pasindu Thakshila, Kalindu Nimnajith, Janaka Ranasinghe, Vindya de Mel, Jamal Wahab and Rahul Peter Denish celebrate on the podium after winning the schools segment of the CR and FC Centenary Rugby Sevens at Longden Place in Colombo last Sunday. The Peterites beat Royal College in the final 21-0 after knocking out Trinity College in the semi final (Pix by Sudath Nishantha) Members of the Royal College team came in for high praise after they made a timely intervention to hold back a team-mate who behaved like a street thug as he attempted to attack a player from St. Peter’s College as both schools contested a most eagerly awaited final ...

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The Royal-Thomian Cricket Match: Its History–by Michael Roberts 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. Chandana Panditharathna once observed, “The magic of the match ...

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Sri Lanka win in German Source:FT South Asia made headlines this year with a stunning win at the recently concluded Mediation Competition by the Bucerius Law School in Germany. Shayhum Aboosalih a past pupil of St. Peter’s College representing both Sri Lanka and the University of London together with Rishika Pandey from India, a Final year Law student at Jindal University- Delhi, caught the attention of judges and expert mediators, as they negotiated their way through the cases ranging from areas in Space Travel, International Business and Intellectual property. Shayhum Aboosalih A Mediation Competition is a simulation of what occurs during a real Mediation, a form of Alternate dispute resolution or ADR where disputing parties try to resolve matters outside court while protecting their privacy. The negotiations have an expert mediator present who helps the conversation by being impartial and guiding parties where the structure may help make the conversation ...

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