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By Kavinka Fernando St. Joseph’s College, Colombo 10 will be celebrating its quasquicentennial in March 2021. To commemorate this magnificent milestone, it was announced that former Josephian Neil Wijeratne would be leading the way in documenting its history and heritage. This was announced on the back of a press release …

Old Wesleyites Sports Club (OWSC) held its 29th Annual General Meeting at the Club house on the 11th September 2020.  Maithri Vithanage who has been a long-standing active member of the Club and with OBU was re-appointed unanimously as the President of OWSC to serve for 2020/2021 calendar year. Maithri …

52nd Saints Quadrangular Tournament will be held on 03rd November 2019 at St. Joseph’s College Grounds and St. Peter’s College Grounds from 9.00 am onwards hosted by Old Joes Sports Club and organized by Saints Quadrangular Association. This year’s tournament was initially to be held during the month of July …

By Algi Wijewickrema Colleges that have a 200 year history in Sri Lanka are not many and in fact we found only six schools having a history longer than Christ Church Boys’ College. While it can be confirmed that five out of those six schools have been started by the …

A Recently we lost in the quarter finals of the Cricket World Cup and people are still analyzing what went wrong – trying to find out who is responsible for our not bringing the cup home. In India where they have more than a billion people to choose from and where the country is full of fanatics, …

The current tournament structure at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and at inter-School level needs to be revamped soon. There has been much talk of this but sadly nothing has been done. The newly appointed Interim Committee has been quick to recognise this need and appears to be working on some changes. Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has been entrusted with …

Ken de Joodt, Trinity College captain of 1957/58, was one of the key players in the Havelocks Sports Club’s glorious run in local rugby from 1960, kicking the winning goal in 1961 to clinch the Clifford Cup. Here, the famous Sri Lankan back division player, and deserving life member for his contribution …

The signs and symptoms have been showing for the past several years, however no remedies or solutions were found as the authorities concerned were more interested in short-term gains rather than medium and long-term results. The post-Sangakkara and Jayawardene era has just begun and as expected Sri Lanka Cricket is struggling to come to terms with it. A three-Test home …