By Fazal Majeed “when the one scorer comes to write against your name, he will not write whether you won or lost, but how you played the game” The 1981 cricket team wrote its name in golden letters in the history of Antonian cricket when they beat Trinity College to …
Read More »Bishop’s College PPA Sports Day 2020
Bishop’s College PPA organized an Inter House Sports Day for its members at Bishop’s College Grounds recently. Here are the highlights as exclusively covered by Quadrangle Photography by Aravinda Ratnayake The pictures posted here have been restricted for sharing or to download and only available for viewing on the site. …
Read More »A TRIP ALONG MEMORY LANE AT KATUGASTOTA
Antonian Cricket season of 1960 and Trinity-Antonian Big Match By Group Captain (Retd) Tilak Pananwala. Following is a compilation of articles penned down by former Antonian Cricketer (now retired) Group Captain Tilak Pananwala based on his memories of Antonian Cricket from 60’s with epilogue added by another Antonian stalwart in …
Read More »ROHAN WEERAKKODY; A TRUE LEGEND OF JOSEPHIAN CRICKET
BY NEIL WIJERATNE Then came the most exciting phase of the awards ceremony. The entertainment items, music, dancing and speeches came to an abrupt end. There was a pin drop silence amongst the packed house at the main hall of the BMICH, Colombo 07. The event was the Schoolboy …
Read More »MAHDEVAN SATHASIVAM THE GREATEST
By Elmo Rodrigopulle I deem it a privilege and an honour to be asked to pen a piece on MAHADEVAN SATHASIVAM, by my Editor Sujith Silva for the ‘QUADRANGLE’. Sathasivam, without doubt was the greatest batsman produced by Sri Lanka in the pre-Test era and even the post era could …
Read More »The Aloysian INVINCIBLES of 1956
By Johnny de Silva The Invincible St. Aloysius College Galle Cricket team in the 1956 season under the captaincy of Mohamed Anwer carried all before them becoming the unofficial Southern Group champions for the first time. SAC ’56 beat both Richmond College and Mahinda College in their annual encounters. Melvin …
Read More »Six of the best Antonians in school cricket’s honour roll
By Afzal Laphir (Melbourne) The schoolboy cricketer of the year award is the most prestigious title a cricketer aspires to during his school career. It brings recognition and often a place in the national side. It is no coincidence that six cricketers in the 1996 World Cup-winning side …
Read More »Ronnie & the merry men of Bambalapitiya
Down memory lane with Ronnie Guneratne By Algi Wijewickrema Ronnie Guneratne perhaps is not a household name in Sri Lanka. It’s no fault of his as he was a sportsman in an era when there was no TV, no email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and only the newspapers carried news, …
Read More »16th Ladies-Musaeus Regatta
Ladies College won the Marie Musaeus Higgins Trophy as they won the 16th Ladies-Musaeus Regatta on 12th October 2019 at Colombo Rowing Club. Photographs by Keven Kodituwakku and Mahela Abeykoon The pictures posted here have been restricted for sharing or to download and only available for viewing on the site. …
Read More »16th Ladies-Visakha Water Polo Enounter
Ladies College Under 19 team won the Mrs. M.N.Edussoriya Trophy while Visakha Vidyalaya Under 15 Water polo team won the Gunawardana Challenge Trophy at the 16th Ladies-Visakha Water polo encounter played at the Sugathadasa Stadium swimming pool on 11th October 2019. Quadrangle as the exclusive media partner of this encounter …
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